Bermuda Lawn Dominators
The Bermuda Lawn Dominators Podcast is your go-to resource for DIY lawn care enthusiasts looking to transform their lawns. Join hosts Skip Wheeler and Jason Crain as they provide practical tips, personal insights, and engaging discussions to help you dominate your lawn game. With a supportive community and a touch of fun with the "Lawn Beer of the Week" segment, this podcast is your ticket to achieving the lawn of your dreams and have fun on the journey. Let's get greener together!
Bermuda Lawn Dominators
The Art and Science of Watering Your Bermuda Lawn: Tips, Techniques, and Tools
Ever wondered how much water your Bermuda lawn actually needs, or how your soil type impacts your watering habits? Join us, Jason and Skip, as we pop open a cool St Arnold's Summer Pills and dive into the art of watering your Bermuda lawn. We reveal how giving your lawn an inch and a half of water a week, broken down into three days, can create an envy-inducing green oasis. Apart from this, we examine how soil type can alter your watering routine while also providing techniques to gauge the amount of water your lawn is truly soaking up.
We're not just about the theory though, we also compile a manual of practical watering methods for you. From sprinkler and rain bird systems to good old manual watering, we cover it all. We even discuss the benefits of a Rachio system and how a weather station can be used to control it.
Tune in for a chat that's as refreshing as a cold summer brew on a hot day, as we delve into the secrets of Bermuda lawn care. Get ready to turn your neighbors green with envy!
Welcome to the Bermuda Lawn Dominators Podcast, the one stop destination for all things lawn care, where we unlock the secrets to achieving a pristine and envy inducing lawn. I'm Jason Crane and I'm here with Skip Wheeler. We're not experts, just passionate about lawns.
Skip:Bermuda lawn dominators get the grass. You need all four tenants mow, water, fertilize and weed. Your go- to stop just to help your lawn. You'll be proud to walk outside to see the change that's undergone. Bermuda lawn dominators, let's grow greener together.
Skip:Today we dive deeper into the four tenants of lawn care, which are mowing, watering, fertilizing and weeding. Our focus for this episode is solely dedicated to the art and science of watering. So grab your drink and join us as we delve into all things related to keeping your lawn hydrated and thriving. Get ready to quench your thirst for knowledge in the world of watering. But first we're going to quench our thirst with the lawn beer of the week.
Skip:Welcome to the lawn beer of the week, where we mow-tivate your lawn care with a side of happy happiness. Join us as we sip on refreshing brews that pair perfectly with tending to your lawn. Get ready to enjoy some grassy goodness and raise a glass to a lawn well done. Well, what do we got?
Jason:All right, this week we have the St Arnold's Brewing, So I'm doing them again. It's not sponsored, it's just I like their beer. But if anyone from St Arnold's is listening, we wouldn't mind being sponsored.
Skip:Yeah, not at all, so send us your beer, that's right.
Jason:So we're going to drink the summer pills, today. It is a Munich style Helles beer. So Helles in German means light, so this is kind of a light, crisp, refreshing summertime beer.
Skip:Perfect for mowing the lawn and sitting back and staring at it.
Jason:That's right. Or even driving around on your riding lawn mower or drinking one.
Skip:Oh, yeah, absolutely. Well let's pour these and see what we got here. This looks really light And you know me, I like the light beers, because we talked about before.
Jason:Yeah, I'm not too sure how you're going to like this one.
Skip:But it's always a crapshoot with me on these things. Oh, I like that. Yeah, it's got a little bit of a aftertaste, but it's a good beer.
Jason:Yeah, I like it a lot. It's really refreshing. It's perfect for summertime.
Skip:Yeah, this is one of the beers I would say the colder the better, for sure. I mean all beer pretty much that way, but this one for sure. So St Arnold's award-winning summer pills, crisp and refreshing, very nifty can with this. It looks like a carnival.
Jason:Yeah, it's very bright, brightly colored.
Skip:Yeah, it looks very summery for sure. Well, that was a good pick. I really really liked that one.
Jason:So today we're talking about watering your Bermuda lawn, so I have a few questions here that I think most people would have about their lawn. Maybe we can answer some of these, kind of discuss them and see what's going on See what's going on.
Skip:Yeah, I'm probably not the best expert on lawn watering, but we'll see.
Jason:Yeah, I'm not either, but we can learn together. So how much water does the average lawn take?
Skip:I do know that. Well, for the Bermuda lawns it's about an inch and a half a week is what you want to put down, and with Nala all at once, you want to do that over at least two days, if not three days. Most people say every three days, especially with this heat going on. So that way you're every other day or so. So half inch, like three times a week, is what the average lawn needs. Okay, and that's what we're talking about here is mostly the average lawn. We're not. I mean, everybody's got their peculiarities. I can't say it, for their specific lawn might be a little different, but generally speaking it's going to be a one and a half.
Jason:Yeah, i did read that if you, depending on your soil, you know if you have a sandy soil you may want to water a little bit more than if you know.
Skip:Yeah, that's true. Yeah, and if you have a clay soil, there's some modifications you need to do as well.
Jason:I still in the half, but yeah, so you kind of answered the next one How often should you water?
Skip:Yeah, so yeah, inch and a half three times a week. So not inch and a half three times a week. Yeah, half inch, yeah.
Jason:So and I I did a little research on this, So I think you know I was you were probably not following any of this advice with my whole lawn and my new lawn I'm watering constantly because it's brand new. Saw it. Yeah but I read that you can about three quarters of an inch twice a week, which is really doing the same thing I like to divide it up this time of year because it's so hot. Yeah.
Skip:So it's getting a little bit more. But yeah, watering less often will help the roots establish deeper or, up the grass, establish deeper roots.
Jason:Oh yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, so they're not so dependent on you watering it every day or whatever, Yeah yeah, absolutely, but then again, it's also depending on your soil type and what you got going on here in South Texas.
Skip:I recommend three times a week is what I would do.
Jason:Yeah, so how do you determine how much you're watering? So you put your sprinkler out or you turn on your irrigation system and you're like I'm watering for this amount of time, but I have no idea how many inches that is.
Skip:Right, yeah, a lot of people use the tuna can method, so you can use anything that's got 90 degree sides on it. You don't want anything with the flared sides, right? So stick that out in your lawn and just see how long it takes you to get half an inch, and then that way you know, or really you can even just do a quarter inch in there in a tuna can I do like four or five of them in the zone, maybe three in a zone and then take the average.
Jason:Take the average, yeah, yeah, i think that's a good idea because you know, you kind of get different amounts and different spots, and and then, yeah, i was looking at the tuna can and in fact you suggested that to me whenever I first got an irrigation system. I don't know if you remember that, but I don't Yeah, so you pretty standard though. Put a tuna can out there and see how long it takes to. Is that what you ended up doing? That's what I did.
Skip:Yeah, exactly what I did. That's what I did here, you know. I'm curious, though, because a lot of new houses, like yours, has this drip system. Yes, so what do you do? Yeah, i don't know.
Jason:Yeah, and so and I've been researching that a little bit and everything that I've seen, so I can't find too much information about drip irrigation for lawns.
Skip:Most of it, you're on the forefront of lawn watering technology.
Jason:I guess most of the things I found were about beds, you know, the flower beds and mulch beds and and I found some complicated formulas and things that I don't even have access to, all the information that I need to plug numbers into that formula. I mean, it's talking about the flow rate and how long the the irrigation tube is and all of that stuff and trying to figure it out. The best thing that I found that made the most sense to me is they said, turn it on for half an hour and then dig down and see how far down it goes.
Skip:You know the other thing you could do, since you have a dedicated here? you have a dedicated meter, yeah, specifically for your watering system, so you could just read the meter Right And figure out your flow rate, yeah.
Jason:I figured I could figure out the flow rate pretty well using that meter and yeah and seeing and there may be, i don't know if it even be different for different zones, or do you think it would be the same?
Skip:No, it would probably be different for different zones?
Jason:I would think Yeah.
Skip:I'm not positive, though I'd be curious to find out here.
Jason:So that's the next thing, that's my next step. I think I'm gonna take a look at that meter and but if anybody out there has any suggestions, Yeah for how to measure the watering of a drip system lawn. Yeah, that's interesting.
Skip:You're the first person I've known that's had that.
Jason:I'm the first person I've known, that's had that too, yeah, absolutely.
Jason:I was surprised whenever I saw it. Yeah, i knew that they put in the irrigation system in and I we actually, you know, went by the house while they were, you know, went right after they had installed it and I was like where are the sprinkler heads? you know, and then I started looking. I was this is drip everywhere and and I knew that we weren't going to get a full-sided yard. So I thought, well, maybe this is all the mulch. You know, i knew we were getting a ton of mulch beds.
Jason:Yeah and, but it turned out that the whole lawn has drip drip. Yeah and even when they put new sides. So they came and took up some of the mulch because we can water a little more often now and we can have more sod than we used to for a new house and that sort of thing and they took up the the mulch and they put down new sod. Well, they, they put down more irrigation lines too, so I don't know, was there not irrigation lines under that mulch?
Skip:There was.
Jason:There were some. They just increased it. They increased it, yeah, so well, it'll be interesting.
Skip:I'll be curious about the longevity or the maintenance of that. Hopefully it won't be too much, but I wouldn't. I don't know. I mean, i haven't touched the flower beds at all hardly since. I've been in this been 10 years and they still work fine.
Jason:Yeah, maybe they'll be fine. I know when they were taking up the mulch they broke some of the lines because they had to repair some before they could put down the sod and but they were out there with shovels again. But it's right under. Those lines are right under the side, right?
Skip:Yeah, they just laid it right on the top of the ground right and put the sod on it.
Skip:Yeah. Yeah, i have some on my yard. Yeah, i mean, it wouldn't.
Jason:I don't. I guess it wouldn't work any other way, really. I mean, you wouldn't get the water where you needed it if they put it too deep. Right, right.
Skip:It'll be interesting to figure out, so I'm anxious to hear how that works out.
Jason:Yeah.
Skip:What else?
Jason:you got. So let's talk a little bit about the different ways that we can water.
Skip:So we have irrigation, yeah, a regular irrigation system yeah like a sprinklers like a sprinkler system or a creek system yeah, and like I had it in my old house. So yeah, but you know, for years I just I didn't have anything and it was just manual and I would find that I would lose interest after a while I was. I was going out and I was moving. It takes some dedication to get out there and.
Skip:And I those guys that get out there and move that water sprinkler around and really take care of it. I admire them for the level of dedication. I often tell people that 80% of having a nice lawn and not having to work real hard at it is a sprinkler system. Quite frankly, Yeah yeah so, but this isn't the discouraging by that doesn't have one. It is absolutely possible to do with a Sprinkler and moving it around yourself. It just takes some dedication and a good memory.
Jason:Many times that I've turned on the sprinkler and Gone in the house, started watching TV or eating dinner or whatever.
Skip:I forgot that the sprinkler was on yes, yeah, i've done that, but you know, there's so many Automated things around the house now it makes it a little easier. Yeah.
Jason:I saw an advertisement for a rain bird system that was Like that. It was set up with the, with timers and it wasn't it wasn't Like a sprinkler system. It was, you know, sprinklers that you, oh yeah, put out there.
Skip:So oh, Yeah, yeah, they do have those systems, and that's a good point. There's a lot of systems out there. You can connect to your regular hose bib now. Yeah and you can leave it, set it and forget it until you have to mo.
Jason:Exactly exactly, yeah, yeah.
Skip:and then you have to take all that up, i guess, but yeah and with the automated systems There's there's even more options out there if you do go with a sprinkler system. I had a rain bird, a regular, just manual rain bird system in my last house, but this house I upgraded to a rocio right and I Love it that thing. Once you put in all the parameters, it takes care of the watering and figuring out how much water in each section That you need, based on the weather and the parameters that you put in. And the stuff that it asks you is the soil type, the type of plants you have in that area, the slope, the amount of sun that section gets and, based on the weather and combined with your data, it figures out when to water each section.
Jason:Yeah, i, i Got a rocio at my last house. At this one, the builders put in the rain bird, the manual rain bird that You can. You can make them Wi-Fi enabled, but yet to buy a separate module to plug in? have you looked?
Skip:at the modules at all.
Jason:I have looked down there around a hundred dollars.
Skip:Is it pretty much the same thing as the rocio?
Jason:Yeah, it's pretty close to what the rocio is doing. I'm very I Think I'm probably gonna break down a bio, rocio, because that's what I'm used to. You know, and like you said it At my other house, i never worried about watering. It skipped when it needed to be skipped, it Watered when it needed to water and you didn't have to worry about setting up schedules or well, The nice thing about having something like that is you get to.
Skip:If you're into it that much and I am You can do your micro climates right, So you may have a shaded area of your yard. It's a little micro climate over there. You can program all those parameters in there. I even have my own Weather station that the rocio references right.
Skip:So I am literally doing my weather. That I'm getting on my back porch is what's controlling my rocio. So if it's anticipating rain, it'll skip. And this is not an advertisement for rocio at all. So we're not sponsored by anybody not rocio, anybody right now. But we're interested if you have rocio is listening or anybody else. But I do like it for that reason, because it It takes all the guesswork out of it. It does take a little bit of extra effort in the beginning, yeah setting up that front is a little more than than a normal.
Skip:Yeah, but let's talk about the people that don't have that. So For years I just had a regular Rainbird system and I manually did it and I did the tuna can thing and I figured out How much each section needed to go, and that works just as well. My lot looked great.
Jason:Yeah, and that's probably Probably what I'll end up doing once I can figure out how much I'm watering you know, with the drip irrigation. But I'm, my plan for now is to use the rain bird that I have and then, you know, just set it up so that I'm watering an inch and a half or so a week Yeah, over two, three days, and Now get it a manual.
Skip:if you just watering yourself with manual sprinklers, is there a better sprinkler than another?
Jason:Yeah, I don't know. That's a good question Well.
Skip:I think it depends on the section in the yard and how much you're trying to get out there. And I do think that the which, the ones, that the I don't know what you call it the automated ones, not automated, but the one, the deflector ones, is what I'm trying to say. I think those are probably going to be your best bet for large areas. for sure, we always, always, had one of those or two of those, and then they use the back and forth fan style.
Skip:That worked very well too. That's what I was using in my house when stuff falls back when we lived up there, and that worked just fine. So I don't know that there's any that I would stay away from. It's just dependent on your situation. You can get some really cheap ones out there, like Lowe's has those little round plastic ones that are like $4.
Jason:That's growing up. That's all we had at our house. That's what my dad bought with the little round plastic ones.
Skip:And you can absolutely have a great lawn with them. You can always admire the little tractor ones that followed the water hose.
Jason:Yeah, i thought that was smart. I never had one, but I thought it was a smart idea. It is a good idea. Yeah, i usually use the fan type also, but that's with no research, that's just looking to see what I could get at.
Skip:Walmart or.
Jason:Home Depot or wherever I was.
Skip:Yeah, absolutely. No matter what you use, just do the tuna can or any type of can test and get you to figure out what your half inch level is, how long it takes to get to that.
Jason:So what about the times of the day? Are there certain times of the day that you should be watering, versus others?
Skip:Yeah, and there's a little controversy around that sometimes.
Jason:Yeah absolutely.
Skip:I do not water during the heat of the day.
Jason:Right.
Skip:Yeah, you get more evaporation, You cool the grass off, but it's not going to get down to the roots. It seems that way to me. I don't think it would.
Skip:And that's what most people will say. I like to water early morning, just before sunup. That way it's getting a good amount of water before the heat of the day, has plenty of time to soak in, and it also depends on your soil type, right? So here we have that sandy loam, so here it soaks it up pretty good and it goes down in the ground. So I like to water early, early in the morning, like four start about four in the morning, have it done by six before the sun comes up, right?
Jason:Yeah, i usually start mine around three. That's what I always set mine on, so that it'll be done by the time I get up and take it. We're taking showers or you know, using a lot of water, and I don't know what it's like at this new house, because I haven't been using water that much whenever we're on a separate meter though, so it wouldn't matter, it wouldn't affect my house water.
Skip:No it would affect your life.
Jason:Yeah, so I can water pretty much anytime, but I always set it early because with the old system, in the middle of the shower time, the water pressure would be nothing.
Skip:Oh, because of the yeah with this system that you have now with the separate meter, you wouldn't even notice anything.
Jason:Yeah, i wouldn't expect. Yeah, that's good to know. So, and I know a lot of places have like here we're under water restrictions, where we're not allowed to water. I think it's after eight in the morning, or 10 in the morning and then before eight at night, or something like that.
Skip:Yeah, so you're only allowed to water once a week right now. So what do you do in those situations, you know, for, say, water an inch and a half a week, right, right, you got to get it all in one day, and that's. That can be a challenge too, right? Especially if you have a lot of runoff. If your soil is dry, you might need to put some type of surfactant down to allow it to help soak in that water, or you can break it up if you so, put a little bit of water down for a few minutes and then come back and let that soak in, and then come back and do a little bit more on the same day, yeah, that's.
Jason:That's one thing that I really liked about the Rochio, because that that soaking was built in you know it run for a few minutes.
Skip:Yeah, I bet it is in that rain bird too?
Jason:Yeah, it probably is. But yeah, i think I think with the rain bird I have it is. it just does one, one zone at a time. So and then, but I think it's going the whole whatever, however long I set it to run.
Skip:Yeah, it just splits it up between the rest time. Yes, Yeah or the soak in time, whatever you call it.
Jason:I don't know that it's given me any soak in time.
Skip:Oh, you're talking about the drip system. Yes, with the drip system. Yeah, you don't need it with that, i don't guess.
Jason:I don't guess. So yeah, now I think it's just running, is starting at three in the morning, running through the zones for half an hour, or whatever I have it set for.
Skip:So yeah now, if you do have the type of soil that's struggling with soaking in the water and you need a surfactant, you can buy them specifically for the lawn. But what most people say is just get the regular and I've done this myself regular nine disinfectant dishwasher soap, dish, soap, yeah.
Skip:Or you can get the baby shampoo that works as well And just spray it on the line Not real heavy. You can look up how much per 1000 square feet online. There's lots of places that'll tell you. Give you an exact amount. But that'll help break the surface tension of the soil, allow the water to go into the soak To soak in.
Jason:Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. That's something I hadn't thought of, so I know. Whenever I first moved down here, it was the restrictions were watering one day every two weeks So, which is nothing in. it's scary whenever you're trying to maintain a lawn. So what types of things can we do in those situations, and what do you think about the soil moisture management? and things like hydrotain and those types of.
Skip:I've never used any of them, not because I have any aversion to using them, i just haven't used them. I grew up around these hot summers and deadlines in July and August and. I'm kind of used to it.
Jason:That's what yeah.
Skip:So I kind of just let mine go a little bit, and mine's mostly dormant right now, especially in the backyard. The front gets a little bit more shade, so it's surviving. I am still watering, but watering once every two weeks. I don't know if there's a good way to do it. Your grass isn't gonna die. I mean, really, watering once every two weeks is just enough to keep it from dying. Right, right, and Bermuda, though, is pretty hard to eat. It'll go dormant and it will come right back to life when it starts cooling off a little bit in September, and September and October are usually really good for the lawn here. So in fact I often tell people like October 31st Halloween is our last show date for the lawn.
Skip:I've tried a really good lawn for July 4th, and then I kind of let it go until we get into September and it starts cooling off, and then October 31st is kind of my last show date, when everybody's coming around trick or treating.
Jason:So here you. Your lawn is brown in the middle of summer and then in February, right, Right, all winter.
Skip:Well, yeah, somewhere in December it starts going dormant. January, february, for sure, is always dormant in those times In March it might start coming back in March, but definitely mid late April is coming back by then.
Jason:So what about watering through the winter? Is that something that we should be doing?
Skip:You know some people do suggest it. I don't water through the winter We get enough rain here, and it's bratic enough and my lawn has done fine. I think you're pretty safe in most places not to bother with it. But if you want to, you can. But I don't see any benefit. I've tried watering and I've tried not watering. Not watering is cheaper and my lawn's done just fine.
Jason:Looks the same yeah, yeah, i usually well before in my other house I'd let the Racio decide whether it should be watered or not, you know, depending on the weather conditions. But yeah, i've read some information out there says you know water through the winter And if you want to look at the like that calendar that we were talking about, Oh, the universities.
Jason:Yeah, if you look at those, it usually gives you an idea of what you should do for your area too as far as watering through the winter time, It's definitely area dependent for sure, But down here I wouldn't.
Skip:I've done it both ways and I saved the money.
Jason:So you just completely shut it off in the winter?
Skip:Yeah, I shut it off until we stopped getting the spring rains.
Jason:I kept it off until beginning of June this year It was raining late this year.
Skip:Yeah, we had a lot more rain than normal so I didn't even turn it on. But I've had really really high water bills So I was a little hesitant this year after some of the water bill trauma I experienced last year.
Jason:Right, yeah, Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm a little nervous. I haven't received my first water bill yet and I've been watering a ton trying to get this new sod to take And it's looking really good right now. But, like I said, I'm watering a ton So I think I can probably back off of it some now.
Skip:And really you'd be the guys that have their own wells or they live right on the lake or the river and they can just pull straight from it Yeah.
Jason:pump it in yeah, that's nice. Yeah, I'm afraid that I'm gonna be in for a shock whenever I get that first bill. Well, that's all I have for the watering segment.
Skip:Okay well that's good, So we didn't cover a whole lot. there's not a whole lot to know. It's really an inch and a half. If we're looking for the generalities, it's an inch and a half a week. how you get that down is up to you, And maybe up to you and the municipality you live in Right exactly Depending on where you're at.
Skip:I haven't had any problems here with the utility coming around and giving out tickets although they have, and I know some areas are really really strict about it while others are not, and then some HOAs are involved in that too Ours is not, but some are But getting an inch and a half down a week. However, you can do it. However you wanna break that up whatever works best for you. It's really a trial and error.
Jason:Well, and I've even seen some guys out hand watering lately, because you can hear, even with the water restrictions you can hand water just about any time.
Skip:Yeah, you can hand water any time you want.
Jason:And I guess that's one way to do it.
Skip:Yeah, if you really want to have that dominating lawn through the summer dormant season, then that's the way to do it. Somebody on the Facebook group actually asked that question. He's down in this area as well. I think he's up in Austin area and he was struggling with that. That's the only other way I know to overcome the lawn or the watering restrictions that we have is to get out there and hand water. That's the only way you're gonna be able to overcome them.
Jason:Yeah, yeah, and that's what I was expecting to do some of that. I knew I was getting new sod and it was in the middle of a drought here And I thought, well, I'm gonna have to stand up there with the water hose at night watering the lawn. But thankfully, with this system and the rain that we got earlier at the beginning of summer in the spring, I haven't had to do that too much.
Skip:Yeah so we talked about putting an inch and a half and how to put that down And a few of the anomalies that happens with different soil types. That's really the basics to watering, but getting watering down is one of the basic tenants And we said mowing, watering, fertilize and weed. In that order. Watering is number two Once you get your mowing down, get your water figured out. It's trial and error figuring it out. It's matter of it's just a matter of getting out there and figuring out what your lawn specifically needs in your micro climate.
Skip:Once you get these two items down mowing and watering you'll start seeing a big difference in your lawn. Just keeping it mowed down and keeping it watered, You'll start seeing it green up and it'll start getting thicker And, as that happens, you'll start getting motivated because you'll start seeing a difference in the lawn and then you can get moving to the other tenants.
Jason:Yeah, exactly Yeah, and I guess as you get the watering down, that just makes you need to mow more, You'll start mowing that two to three times a week after that.
Skip:Yep, all right. If you guys have any additional questions, put it out there on the Facebook group and let's get the community talking about it. I'm sure we covered some things. We might even been wrong about a couple of things. We're not experts as we say, we're just. We just enjoy doing the lawn. So I'm sure you guys could enlighten us. So even some more ideas.
Jason:Yeah, we're looking for answers, just like everybody else. So, whatever you can, whatever knowledge you can impart to us, we appreciate it. All right, you wanna do a couple of shout outs?
Skip:Yeah, who we got.
Jason:So the first one is Bryce Flores, and he did a post about how you don't really need expensive tools to have a great lawn, and so his post, his picture, had the tools that he's using and then his lawn looked fabulous And it was. you know he's not buying the $3,000 real mower and all that. you know it's affordable lawn equipment and just using it the right way.
Skip:Yeah, and Bryce, you're absolutely right, You do not need a lot of tools. You don't need the expensive things at all. I started with the rotary mower and the sprinkler system, that's it, And just go and get the cheapest fertilizer I could, and between those three things that was pretty much it. So you absolutely don't need those expensive tools. It becomes once you start getting motivated and excited about your lawn. you start seeing the changes. then you start trying to inch towards those tools.
Jason:Right, exactly.
Skip:You approach it like anything else, one at a time. You know I always use any new project around the house I use as an excuse to get a new tool. So that's the way I do it And it takes a long time. All right, the other person is Paula Carson. She put I gotta love how I can be out here dying in the heat, mowing, weeding, et cetera, and the neighbor's yell looks good to her husband, absolutely.
Skip:Yeah, i'm sorry, paula. I'm sure that happens all the time. My granddad.
Skip:I remember vividly my granddad, when I was a kid, would complain so much because he had a beautiful rose garden in the front yard And people would come by and tell my grandmother what a wonderful rose garden she had.
Skip:And he would make him so mad.
Skip:So, paula, it happens to everybody for sure, but good job on getting your lawn out there. Just I would correct him. That's what.
Skip:I would do.
Jason:He ain't got nothing to do with it. Exactly, yeah, it reminds me a little bit of the comedian Nate Bargazzi talking about how his wife won't let him mow because he doesn't do it right. And he's like I just want you to tell all the neighbors that this is your choice to get out there.
Skip:Yeah, go up and down. I remember him saying that I want you to go knock on every door and let them know.
Jason:But you know, my wife likes to mow. I mean that's kind of the thing she does to help And the weed eating and the edging and the weeding and all that I usually do. But she'll get out there and mow the lawn.
Skip:I don't have anybody around here that likes to mow other than me, just you Yeah. Paula, good job. We feel you I understand for sure. Thank you for being a top contributors, both Bryce and.
Jason:Paula.
Skip:We appreciate all of you guys and Gals contributing to the Bermuda lawn dominators Facebook group. You guys are really what keeps this group going and you are so supportive and encouraging to each other And I appreciate that.
Jason:Yeah, yeah. I love how encouraging everybody is. People put their lawns out And it's kind of a kind of you're kind of vulnerable out there putting your lawn. I mean, some of these guys have the beautiful like your front yard. I think that's the cover of the Facebook page right now And it's I mean even at my best. My last lawn didn't look that good, But I mean it looked really good, but it wasn't that, And I appreciate how everyone encourages each other.
Skip:You're right. That is my front lawn on the cover page, and let me tell you the story behind that. It was the wettest year on record, and well, maybe not on record, but like in 10 or 12 years here, So we had just such a wonderfully wet spring, and that was a early, that was a late spring photo. It was May, almost June when I took that picture, but we'd had so much water I don't think the Ratchale even kicked on that whole spring.
Skip:So that helped tremendously, and anytime you can get rainwater over the city water, it's going to help the grass, and that was just. Yeah, that was a lucky year. Some years are better than ever.
Jason:Yeah, I've noticed too with the rainwater. It's like your water regularly, And then you get one good shower and you go out And it looks like your grass has grown. Yeah, especially in a lightning storm or anything where you get that extra nitrogen.
Skip:Oh, yeah, yeah. So a couple of people on the Facebook page asked a couple of questions that I think we could probably touch on. Ok, tony Samson said that. Tell everybody that pre-watering is not a thing, right.
Jason:So I agree.
Skip:Tony, you're either watering or you're not.
Jason:Right, there's no pre-watering.
Skip:And then Tom Keywork. He asked what role soil type, like clay or sand, plays in determining the water volumes and frequency. We kind of touched on that a little bit And I'll go back over just a little bit. So if you're in a clay area you're going to want to do the intermittent watering And then in the sand you may have to just water a little bit less more often. Is that right, right? Yeah, Yeah it's a little bit less more often.
Jason:Yeah, yeah, and it may require a little bit more water to more than the inch and a half per week But you're going to be at the upper level of that.
Skip:Yeah, we appreciate all you guys listening and asking questions on the Facebook page. We will continue to take questions from the Facebook page and try to answer the ones we can. Like I said earlier, we're both just amateurs, so we're just trying to figure this out as we go, so we don't have all the answers. We're literally just researching it and trying different things in our own lines to see what works. And it may be different for you, but yeah, And the community, the Facebook community that we have.
Jason:that's my number one go-to resource And, like I said, almost every question you can ask has been answered if you just use that search.
Skip:Yeah, everything's been answered.
Jason:And if you can't find it, throw it back out there And somebody will answer it for you.
Skip:Yeah, absolutely Everybody's dealt with that, especially with weed identification.
Jason:That kind of helps sometimes too. Yeah, it does.
Skip:All right. Well, thank you guys for listening. Once again, Join us next week. We're going to talk about fertilizing.
Jason:Yeah yeah fertilizing.
Skip:So there's a lot to do with that, and especially this time of year with the heat. But we're going to talk about year round and how we fertilize and what we've found that works for us And maybe it would have worked for you. Talk about some of the math involved with that.
Jason:Yeah, yeah, that's where I struggle a little bit. I always felt like I was good with math, but it's figuring out.
Skip:Until it comes down to application. Huh Right, exactly.
Jason:Yeah, yeah.
Skip:Well, it can be daunting, But you know, once you get it figured out, it's not so bad. Join us next week when we talk about that. Thank you guys, all right, thanks.
Skip:Thanks for joining us on this episode of the BLD Podcast. We hope you enjoyed our lawn care discussions and the lawn beer of the week. Remember, as we sip and tend to our lawns, let's get greener together. Keep mowing, keep sipping and keep dominating those lawns. Until next time, stay green and cheers.
