Well I have a lot to occupy my time as well but am super obsessed with my lawn and definitely think it makes for beautiful curb appeal just my opinion, though it does consume me when things go wrong, thanks for the watering tips

Give it half an inch twice a week. If you see signs of drought stress at any point, water immediately.

Oh, you may also want to look into something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N4X93A8

It is made for hose watering and it will turn on the valves one at a time.

I live on a private road surrounded by woods - the requirement for any curb appeal is pretty limited since there is no curb :-) And no lawn in the front anyway.

And one can kinda tell you are "super obsessed" just from the frequency of your posts :-) If that's what makes you happy, go for it!!

Lol

Yep, we're nuts, certifiable.

What’s everybody doing in regards to mowing during the heat? I haven’t mowed since Tuesday and don’t want to stress it. The lawn doesn’t look bad and seems like it’s still growing but I’m concerned if I cut it, then it will start stressing. I kind of like it long, it looks like domination tehe

I Always mow on 3 1/2 every 4 days, that's just me though , I don't like the way it looks long looks messy but I never cut short which is why I have No weeds it chokes them out!

Zt you've been watching too many LCN videos It seems Ha Ha

z t-

Your lawn looks fantastic.

But speaking of slopes, that is one of strangest looking curb shapes I've ever seen.

"Out of the blue" ?? It is July! What exactly, did you expect? ;)

(Word to the wise - this winter, it will be cold, our northern friends should beware of snow, and ice. You have been warned.)

LOL!! I have to chuckle at that as well. These temperatures are pretty much the standard program in summer across much of the US.....they happened last year and the year before and will happen again next year!! It's like after the terrifically cold winter many experienced they forgot what summer was like :-)

Lisa, it is not necessary to be rude. And even less appropriate when what you are stating is not true. It is not at all hard to find historical weather data online for just about any city in the US and Pittsburgh being a decently sized one, records go back to 1871!! And that shows that 90F days are not nearly as rare as you imply.....and in fact it can get quite a bit hotter! And for an extended period.

So perhaps you might want to tone down your rhetoric.......it is not appreciated nor necessary!!

Pittsburgh PA heatwaves

zt, it is quite obvious that not everyone WAS taking it as a figure of speech :-) And moreover, gave the impression that hot weather in late June/early July was somehow completely uncommon and unexpected. And it is obviously not!!

And your comment about my first comment leaves me wondering.....what, if anything, was the slightest bit objectionable about it? I answered the question asked........

IDK.......there is something about the Lawn Care forum that tends to bring out the unpleasant side of far too many posters. I've seen this happen here year after year.

Because we want picture perfect lawns all year round and when we don't get that we whine like children.

Perfectly acceptable behavior if you ask me.

Hey! There's an ant on my lawn! Scram you varmint!

Well you're right about that, not everyone did. My apologies, I didn't know you had a previous post. I thought the condescending one was your first. Maybe it's just me but I felt your second comment was a little unsavory along with Ted's.

Oh as Far as your hyperlink with Pittsburgh heatwaves half of them I wasn't even born yet Lmao && the ones I wasn't living here then JUST sayin ....Lol

I think it's safe to say the heat is getting to everyone......

Let's all relax here....at least you guys are not NY Giants fans like me.....try being on a message board for THAT....phew.....

Soooooo, ahyhoo... Lisa the tuna can test with the ch ch ch ch type of sprinkler should still give you some number for time to water. I happen to hate those sprinklers more than most, because they are so hard to get them to put out water evenly across the entire throw of the water stream. I've tried them all, twice or three times, and I'm back to the oscillator (sweep sweep). The newer technology designs using an internal gear drive instead of the crazy external lever apparatus finally worked to make them reliable.

If you have not been watering deeply, then your roots will be shorter and the grass will wilt more quickly than if you have been deep watering. That's one of the reasons for deep watering. It seems about once a year someone writes in about their yard dying while on vacation because one of their underground sprinklers broke leaving no water pressure for the rest of the yard. Since they watered every day the roots were very short and the lawn really did die in a week. Please don't be that person this year.

Having said that, a cool season lawn maintained at typical lawn height of cut will die out in less than a week without water if temperatures stay consistently above 90 for the duration. No matter how deep and infrequent you water.

I'll also add - when you let whatever grow in your lawn, you no longer have a lawn, you have a pasture. Pasture care is different than lawn care.

@zt: How are you taking that picture? It looks artificial, like it was cut and pasted. The mailbox etc don't look right. Maybe it is a low resolution photo, but it almost looks more like a cartoon drawing than reality. Do you have your camera set to take low res photos?

Now that you mention it, that picture does have a Bob Ross quality to it.

All that's missing is a happy little tree in the background.

I believe that picture was taken with an iPotato 4.

The only other thing I've seen that looks close to that pic is on Google Earth. There is a setting where it puts in artificial computer generated foliage.

zt and Lisa: I mean no disrespect at all. I'm not a lawn hater, lol. Other than the neighbor's property across the street, everything else in that photo looks photoshopped and very poorly. What idiot would do that? Probably nobody and certainly not zt based on his other posts. I then assumed it must be something wrong with the resolution setting or something weird like that. The lawn may be nice but you couldn't convince me based on that photo. It is just a green blob. Just in front and to the right of the mailbox the street overlaps the lawn with no curb. Just in front and to the left of the mailbox the lawn overlaps the street. The edge of the main lawn at the street just looks all wrong.

Both the tree bark and the wooden fence in the upper left corner look like they came right out of Google Earth. Why? I don't know and I DO NOT believe zt is trying to fool anybody. It's just very odd. The only other thing that looks real is the iron railing in the foreground.

In case anybody hasn't noticed, I took a couple of days off work so I have a little free time to comment on meaningless things. :o)

I'm calling conspiracy at the highest level!

z t must be in collusion with the Russians. Or Google.

What's the difference anyway?

lol. Martini. Shaken, not stirred. The name's Blue, Joe BigBlue. Maybe Joe can use his shoe phone to call in agent 99.

Hope these pictures are suffice, it took me a long time to photoshop these. Tried to upload a video but I guess Houzz doesn’t support drag and drop media.

A couple of videos shot today, one earlier and the other a few hours after. Get your tin foil hats out people.

That green blob you disrespected is my lawn, now apologize to her. I might not know how to take quality photos but I do know one thing, mine's thicker than yours.

I don't buy it for a minute. I want to know what z t stands for anyway...

Probably "zero truth" regarding your lawn.

I want a close up. That "lawn" is probably spray painted tinsel from a Christmas tree....

haha the green blob photo was the close up. I zoomed in and it might be why the resolution was junk.

OK much better now. We see that you were shooting through a window, which may have been a factor in the original. I see that the green blob is, in fact, a very pretty lady indeed! I swear I'm not going to say anything about the videos that don't run... scout's honor!

hahaha no way they don't work? I set it to private when I uploaded to youtube, do I have put it as public. Please don't mind the last obnoxious comment, I was trying to contradict this thread.

My lawn is thicker than yours bwahaa , lawn looks amazing zt

zt you can't show videos when they are private. Private setting is for your viewing only. You need to set it to either public so it is available to everyone, or you can choose unlisted. With unlisted, only people who you send the video link to can see it. Since you embedded them here we should be able to see them in unlisted mode. If you don't care who sees them then just make them public and resave.

LOL, well that was entertaining!

@valerie... it's what we do!

We aim to please. Or amuse. Whatever.

Our work here is done.

Now let me get a flashlight to look for grubs.

We aim for these strings! If I’m ever criticized like Lisa for commenting too much or accused of fake lawn, then I’ve reached the pinnacle!

Hahaha this thread is definitely taking the better direction. It keeps a smile on my face as I dread seeing my new water bill.