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
Busting Lawn Care Misconceptions: Cutting Costs, Navigating Water Restrictions, and More
Are you ready to transform your lawn, but constantly fall prey to common myths and misconceptions? We've got your back! This episode unravels the truth about lawn care, starting with the most common mistakes people make. Discover why mowing short isn't the shortcut to less frequent mowing you thought it was, and why Bermuda grass demands your attention two to three times a week during peak season. If you're nurturing a new sodded lawn, we've got essential tips for you. And for a bit of fun, we give our review of the Buena Besa Salt and Lime Lager - the ideal companion for a day of mowing!
Watering strategies can be a confusing subject, particularly during drought restrictions. But, worry not! We help you navigate through it all, providing insights on how to optimize your watering cycles and the advantages of using a WiFi enabled controller. We also delve into the art of a soaking cycle and discuss strategies to manage high water bills and cut costs on expensive irrigation water.
Finally, we've all heard maintaining a lush lawn can dig a big hole in your pocket. We're here to bust that myth! Tune in as we share tips on how to get the most out of watering restrictions, find the best deals on lawn care products, and even some creative, budget-friendly home remedies for weed control. We bring up our favorite Facebook groups for lawn care advice and share how to prepare for seasonal changes. So, grab your gardening gloves, and join us on this lawn-care journey!
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 dominating lawn. I'm Jason Crane and I'm here with Skip Wheeler. We're not experts, just passionate about lawns.
Speaker 2:Bermuda lawn dominators get the grass. You need all 14 in slow water fertilizing weed. You're 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.
Speaker 4:If you've listened to this before, you know that there are four tenants for creating great lawns mowing, watering, fertilizing and weeding. But today we're delving a little deeper and uncovering the truth behind lawn cameras that have been holding you back, and we are discussing the techniques that will have your neighbors wondering how you managed to cultivate a dominating lawn. Let's dive in and set the record straight on the three things Everyone gets wrong about the lawn care. But first let's quench our thirst with the lawn care beer of the week.
Speaker 3:Welcome to the lawn beer of the week, where we motivate your lawn care with a side of hoppy 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.
Speaker 4:What you got for us today.
Speaker 1:Today we have the Buena Besa Salt and Lime Lager.
Speaker 4:It sounds really good. It's quite a sinister looking can, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's imported from San Diego is what the can says. It's always fresh. So this is a beer that we just discovered. My wife picked it out one time just because of the can. The sinister looking can look pretty cool.
Speaker 4:It does look cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we really like it. So we've been drinking it every time we come across it, so it's really good. It's a lager that's light refreshing. It has the salt lime already in there. It's a. Mexican style lager. So yeah, I think.
Speaker 4:I love Mexican lagers. Those are my favorite. And especially with the salt already in it, it just saves a number of trips or steps. That's right. See what this tastes like? Oh, I like that.
Speaker 1:That's perfect that is a good bid. Yeah, I like it a lot too.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you guys give it a try. It's 4.7% alcohol by volume, so it's about average for beer.
Speaker 1:Right, it's not too bad. It's a little more than a light beer, but it's not bad at all.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I do taste the salt a little bit. It's probably not even. It's not that much, though it's very light salt. I'd probably put a little bit more in there for my yeah. But I like salt and butter beer, so very good. So what are we talking about this week? We're talking about some lawn care myths.
Speaker 1:That's right, the things that a lot of people don't understand. They get this wrong a lot of the time. So we're gonna talk about three different things that even I got these wrong before before. I started getting into this, yeah, so we can kind of uncover the truth behind these myths.
Speaker 4:What are they?
Speaker 1:So the first one is mowing short means you don't have to mow so often.
Speaker 4:Well, you know, I used to subscribe to that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did too.
Speaker 4:I'd mow it short so I could wait much longer before it got out of hand.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 4:Because my thought was the shorter I went, the longer it would be before the neighbors would complain. Right, Exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's right so.
Speaker 4:I think that's a common myth. A lot of people do, but mowing short doesn't mean that at all. As a matter of fact, I think you know you're never supposed to remove more than one third of the blade.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 4:So when you're one third of an inch, if you're mowing in, an inch is not much.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So you're having a little more often if you're mowing low. Yeah, so if you let it grow really tall, so you know it grows to a couple inches, and then you go in, you mow it really low, then you end up with a bunch of brown grass too until it starts growing back.
Speaker 4:Yeah, with Bermuda, absolutely. It's what I tell people. The top of it looks like a tree. Just imagine a tree. The top of it's green, the bottom of it's brown. So if you've got tall grass, you'd chop off the top of the tree so you're going to have the brown left. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. If you're mowing short that is definitely one of them you still need to mow off, especially in Bermuda. Bermuda two to three times a week in the peak growing season.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, and, like you said, you just want to take that one third off, and so that's not very much at all, especially, I mean, I guess, if you're, if you're mowing three inches, that's a whole inch that you take off, but that's pretty tall grass right there, yeah, especially for Bermuda, like string Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you know I have this, this new lawn that was just sauded. So I just moved into new house, have brand new sod, so they weren't doing, you know, any kind of mowing before I got there, and I guess it was only probably a week or so old whenever I got in there, so I probably didn't need mowing. But at that time I didn't have a lawn mower. I ordered my California trimmer but it hadn't come in yet. So I was renting a mower once a week from Home Depot, a rotary mower, to go mow this yard, and in that time it had gotten well over two inches tall in some places.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so and I was mowing, I was having to mow it high with this Honda rotary mower to keep from scalping it. So I finally got the California trimmer in and, after mowing you know this tall grass once a week, I took it down to where you know, just below where I want to maintain it. So it took it probably half an inch lower than where I wanted to maintain it. Yeah, just because I was, and I was super scared. It was new sod and it was green and nice looking at that time. And then all of a sudden, you know it's all brown.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And you know it's like did I kill it? Yeah, or what.
Speaker 4:That's when the neighbors look at you and say what did you do to your lawn? You dummy Right, exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah so, but now I'm out there at least twice a week. The last couple of weeks it's been three times a week out there mowing to just take a little bit off, and it's starting to look better. Uh, droughts kind of get into it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's been a little rough. I mean we've been weeks, all of you, I don't think the last real rain.
Speaker 1:So yeah, first part of the year, yeah, yeah yeah, so it's been what?
Speaker 4:two and a half months and some better decent rain right. So, but we're supposed to have a wet fall, so we'll see yeah, maybe we'll have some nice fall lawns here.
Speaker 1:I'm hoping, yeah.
Speaker 4:But you know this is why people get into the PG. Ours right is because the plant growth regulator, because mowing this, often, especially when it's 100 degrees outside, I can get a little tough.
Speaker 1:It is rough. It's rough last night, a mode I think I Said this one another time on another podcast, on another episode, but I'm a mode last night at 630 Wait until 630. It was 102 degrees and it was rough.
Speaker 4:Yeah, imagine so. Yeah, pgr, if you. So, if you're running into a problem of Trying to keep up with the lawn mowing, especially if it's growing up, a A PGR will help you. You can put that on and what it does. It doesn't take much of it, but it stunts the growth. Essentially, it keeps it from growing vertically and it makes it grow more horizontally. So you'll, if you pick some of the grass after you have that PGR on it, you'll see it. It kind of looks like a little dwarfism going on with the grass, but so it won't grow tall, it just grows out.
Speaker 4:Yeah so you'll start seeing it. It'll start jutting out into the sidewalk and stuff pretty quick. But mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:So you have to do a little more edging.
Speaker 4:Yeah, a little more edging Maybe you're not having to mow it every three days. You can get by. When I was doing it, I could get by with probably every Five to seven days.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that's really good. Yeah, that's a lot better than three times a week.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and in the slurge times you probably get by with full week.
Speaker 1:So, and you know not, only does it Keep it from growing tall where you're having to mow all the time, but I mean it makes it thick. Yeah, it does think it up which will help with weed control. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I like using it. I haven't used it this year, especially right now, just because of the heat that we got going on, but I've used it and if I love using it, it takes very, very little. So when you buy it, I bought mine off a do my own comm and we're not sponsored and we don't have any affiliate links with them or anything. But if you want some, you can go to do my own comm. I Don't remember how much it was. I want to say I've used it for a year.
Speaker 4:Somewhere around 140. Yeah, for like a gallon of it, but I use six ounces for my over half an acre of sodded. Yeah, I put it on, doesn't take much at all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know if you remember, but you gave me some too that I still have from.
Speaker 4:A couple years. I gave my son some too. I still have the most.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I used it on my old lawn. Your your PGR that you bought a couple years ago.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, oh yeah definitely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it was common verb, you know, and I mean it was nice, yeah, yeah didn't have the mow as much the only problem with it.
Speaker 4:It's not a big problem, but you do have to put it on about every that's a little bit of a chore. If you got a big, it's worth. It's worth looking at it. If you're trying to get out of having to mow all the time, it's worth look well.
Speaker 1:The next myth that we're gonna talk about is Watering your lawn every day is good for it.
Speaker 4:So watering every day is not good for it, but you know the problem with watering every day.
Speaker 4:So your lawn once about an inch a week and let it soak into the ground. The problem with short water, with with watering often, is that you the water stays it towards the top and the roots don't. You want that deeper root growth to help the grass survive and droughts and everything else. So it's better and more healthy for the grass if you mow less often, just deeper less often, and It'll keep your lawn looking a lot better and it'll help it a little dormant seasons.
Speaker 1:So we're still shooting for the one to one and a half inch per week, but we we want to do it maybe in one to two waterings a week. Yeah, is that what we're looking at.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I would say two, if you can. Now, you know, sometimes you have drought Restrictions and you can't right here right now, I think we can only water once a week one, yeah, one day a week. Yeah, so If you have to do one day a week, it's, it's not horrible. It's not the best, I think, but you can make it work. An hour, an inch and a half in a single watering, but you can make it work. So what about you?
Speaker 1:you know. So you, you'd water. What about Giving it a soaking time? So I know, whenever I had that Racio Controller, it always put built-ins soaking time. So with water for 10 minutes yeah. And then it would go to a different zone and then we come back to the first zone later and water 10 more minutes to get in the full 30 minutes, or whatever.
Speaker 4:I haven't used the soaking cycles on my Racio, but yeah, I don't have a big problem with the runoff though. Yeah but you know, right now, with the ground being so dry, I probably would have a problem within the backyard, where I'm not watering that much. Yeah, that's if you are concerned with that and you can only water once a week, that's, that's an option a lot of the newer Wi-Fi enabled controllers have that on. It does so, you know, even if it doesn't have that option, though you can set up two cycles right you know two different cycles of a.
Speaker 4:they most of them have a and a b cycle, or maybe even a c too, but you can set up that way as well, yeah, and I know with my rain bird that I have now you can set up two times each day, or maybe it's even three times each day.
Speaker 1:So that's what I've done. So I have it. You know water At one time, you know for so many minutes, and then it starts again later now with your new side.
Speaker 4:You were watering a lot to get it established.
Speaker 1:Yeah, now you need to.
Speaker 4:You probably need to pull back. I would drop it to once. Once a week, probably probably good, maybe twice a week.
Speaker 1:Well, I dropped it back to once a week and probably that was the shock of the water bill. Yeah, so so I had a huge water bill, and then On top of that, you know, if I kept watering, I'd be paying for a divorce too. So Well, your water bill would have fed a small huge and and I was, and again I was afraid I was scared to kill my brand new sod.
Speaker 3:You know I'm so excited to have that brand new yard like that.
Speaker 1:You know I'm starting fresh and and and they it was really. The sod was laid in two different phases, really yeah it was we got extra sod later on that we didn't know we were gonna get and so whenever the Landscapers came out and they laid that last batch of sod, they changed the my routine on my Controller, on my Rainberg controller.
Speaker 4:Oh no.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so I. I found out that they had added, so I had a in a B program Just so I could water my. I was watering my trees every day and in the sod Three times a week, I think at that point. But they had a. They put a C on there. That was watering every day, which? Probably contributed to my huge water bill bet your grass will green, yeah it was.
Speaker 1:It was really nice and so, like I said, we got that water bill in and my wife stood there and watched me change the the control. Now how many times she actually said, maybe we should do two times a week, and I was like well, let's just go to one.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't know. I'd go down to one see what happens. I'd be even asking the city if I could give some of that water back, carried in buckets, back to you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah and so and I think we talked about this before but here we have two different water meters. We have one for our irrigation, one for for the house, and so I Bought an extra water hose so that got up to both the front and the back, and use that to water because it's not quite as Expensive as you know, double for the irrigation water, yeah, almost double, which is robbery really.
Speaker 4:I mean, it's so frustrating, it is Well, let's and learn. At least you learned it early, that's right.
Speaker 1:So I'm watering once a week right now. I was looking at it today and it's there. There's some spots that are Not looking as green, but it's you know 102.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think we've had. I.
Speaker 1:Don't know, like 40 something, days of 105 or above. Oh yeah, so it's, it's crazy.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it has been hot. I have not been going out much. Go in the garage and get in the car and drive it to work and then drive home back into the garage. Yeah, it's been too hot to be outside, for sure. Well, that is definitely one of the myths. Is watering your lawn every day is good for it? It's not good for it. You want to do Once, maybe twice a week? Yeah, and, and you know the exception is the brand new lawn.
Speaker 1:When you have a brand new lawn, you're going, whether you seed or sod, you want to water it Quite a bit more, once a day, at least once a day, probably twice a day for the first few weeks, and then after that, you know, you get back into your routine of of once a week, once or twice a week.
Speaker 4:Yeah, what's our other myth?
Speaker 1:So the other myth that we have is having a great lawn is Expensive.
Speaker 4:You know, a lot of people think that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they do.
Speaker 4:You know it goes back to the four tenants right here, right? So if you take care of the four tenants which is mowing, watering, fertilizing, weed, that's it then it'll take care of itself. Mowing doesn't cost you a whole lot, just your gasoline, yeah. And then watering can cost you, as you found out Right that under control. You know what Fertilize can cost you, but it's not real expensive if you use something organic. You don't have to use the name brand, you don't have to have the malorganized or you know whatever's the cheapest out there. Recently I've been buying pro-care, just whatever's cheap and weeding. So I guess once you start adding all these up, it starts to feel like it can be a lot of money. But you don't have to spend. You don't have to buy the high-end or everything. Just if you take care of mowing and watering, those first two things, that's going to be a big deal. That'll be a big part of having a nice lawn. So I haven't spent, not this year at all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, you know, I mean, if you own a house, then you have a lawnmower or access to a lawnmower. So I mean, use the lawnmower you have. You know, if you can't go out and buy you know the McLean or the Rolex or the Swardman or you know one of those fancy real mowers then use them when you have and you can. Your lawn will look good. Yeah, and there's other things you can do.
Speaker 4:You don't have to buy the brand new fancy lawnmower.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 4:I got my first one. I got my California, my first California Craigslist, or it might have been Facebook marketplace, I don't remember for $500 and that's just about what. Rotary mower anyway, a new rotary mower, so you can absolutely do watering. That's built into your utilities anyway. Just be careful with your watering and then fertilize. I have half an acre that I keep fertilized and it will cost me about 70. The other thing you can do is a lot of these companies like do my own. The volume that they sell in is so Much there's you get so much product and it is expensive because of how much you're getting. But split it with somebody.
Speaker 4:I see a lot of guys um, have a, though they'll post it on our groups ask if anybody's near them Want to go in with. One thing I wouldn't do is don't split it and repackage it and mail it. Somebody's asked me about that before and I believe there's some EPA requirements in there that for that you might I don't know you could get yourself in trouble.
Speaker 1:So really, I think out of the out of the four tenants, probably watering would be the biggest extra cost. I would think if you, if you weren't watering at all before, yeah, you'll see a rise in your water bill in the summer months especially.
Speaker 4:Well, and if you're not in a not getting any rain, rain in place?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. If you're somewhere where it rains all the time, then you know, that's not even the worry about it. Yeah, yeah, no, my sister used to live in southern Louisiana, and so in the spring and summer they rain there every afternoon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, it wasn't you know on an all-day thing, but it was a shower, came up every afternoon and rained, and she was an air traffic controller, and so they got a new guy at work. They just moved in from somewhere else, you know where. It was a lot of tire and the first thing he did was install a and the sprinkler system in his front yard and they all said you're an idiot. That's the last thing you need in southern Louisiana is a sprinkler system, because it's gonna rain every day, you know.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so yeah, he's the only guy in town with a sprinkler system. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure how far he had to go to get it, because you know, those people are on there, wouldn't want it.
Speaker 4:No, when I was stationed in Guam would be the same thing. There's absolutely. It rained every day. It's a tropical environment, so it rained every day. Keeping the lawn there was easy. In fact you had to try not to have a nice lawn because the weather was great, water, water was great but I'm like you.
Speaker 1:I I tried to find the cheapest for lives there. I can, you can get some really good sales sometimes if you, especially at the end of the season. Yeah, yeah, if you're talking about it and you have this big store, yeah.
Speaker 4:It's easy to get some on clearance towards the end of the year. Also, some of these stores if they'll have open bag specials where if they'll sell it to you cheaper. Yeah so that's an option to but shopping around, you know, maybe Lowe's and Home Depot is not your best bet. Maybe Walmart or right, there's other places that have, or even some of these other stores. Sometimes I go to track.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, tractor supply is a good place to go for that too. Yeah, they usually have good prices or Atwoods I don't know if you have at woods around here, and that's what back where. I live before we had at woods. It was like tractor supply had a lot of good lawn, lawn care and stuff there for pretty cheap too.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you know, it's not it as expensive as people think. It's more about the consistency and dedication to time right and doing it more than you know. A lot of people get all excited and get motivated to do, to do the long for a week, maybe two weeks, maybe a month, and then they lose interest. And that's when it you know, now you've got all the stuff that you bought, not sitting in the garage and I use this and now, yeah sure it's expensive if you're not going to use this stuff.
Speaker 4:Yeah but yeah, I think you can get by with not spending a lot.
Speaker 1:it can become an expensive hobby, yeah yeah, yeah, I see people post all the time on the Facebook group. I joined this group and this is all that. These are all the things I bought since then.
Speaker 1:You guys talk to me into all this stuff and before you know, I bought a powered real motor, just you know, from from the group, because that's what, that's what everybody's using now you know, and I see the great lawns and I'm like, oh, that's what I want and so, but it's something that I mean, it's been a few years and and if that's where you want to head and you don't have the budget for it right now, just save up for it and you can. You'll have a great lawn in the meantime and then you can get this extra stuff.
Speaker 1:You know when you can.
Speaker 4:Even having all the perfect equipment, let's say even have an unlimited budget you mean I have the perfect line that year. My line this year is not been great and a lot of that has to do with the weather.
Speaker 4:Right, just haven't got the rain this year. Yeah, the Facebook page to the top of the the banner is my lawn from a few years ago. It was a very written up. It's about three days later, so I took that picture. Was I pop, the green was just very vivid. Of course, I just done the flower beds at that time and I was just kind of proud of it at that point yeah, it looks really good yeah, on that picture it looks great and it did look great that year in person.
Speaker 4:In fact, I even made my wife and her parents walk it because of her printer here at the time. Come out this lawn. I had to show it to somebody yeah but my point is that even with all the right equipment, even spending the money, you may not have the perfect line every year. But that's kind of the challenge of this right, it's kind of like golf.
Speaker 4:You never master it, necessarily it's, or maybe you do master it and you perfect. It's gonna be cheaper some years than others. If you're gonna do that, like this year, would be very expensive because I haven't spent the money to maintain it and no one to call it right, no one to say I've spent enough or I'm not. I'm not going down this path like with the water. I keep going back to that because that's probably the biggest issue we have going on right now. Just know what your budget is. Stay within your budget. You can still have a nice one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know something, and actually the, the city here, put this out on their Facebook page. But they were saying you know, when your lawn is turning brown, that doesn't mean that it's dead, it's going into dormancy and it's going to come back whenever. The conditions conditions are right. I'll come back, and that's just something that I have to remember. Even looking out at my brand new sod and I'm Starting to see the brown spots in it and I just know.
Speaker 4:Yeah, for me it is very resilient. It will survive droughts just fine, and you'll be amazed. A good doesn't take much. It would just be nice to have some. Yeah, it would, it'd be great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, it's like when I was a kid always I never understood my dad always wanting it to rain you know, and yeah, I don't want to rain, can't go outside, yeah and now you know the joke is. You know, all the dads are telling rains. They say we sure needed that yeah that's that's me now yeah.
Speaker 4:Well, I even checked the forecast mid September, and there's not a lot of rain in the forecast between now and then. You know, there's some other things to do, though. If you don't, if you're not getting to train, Hydro I retain.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I actually bought some, did you, yeah, but I haven't put it down yet, so I'll be interested to see how that works.
Speaker 4:I should probably do something. But there you go. We start nickel and diamond ourselves. We're not doing a good job of proving that it's not expensive to maintain your line. It's not, it's a hobby. You do what you can and yeah it's like any other hobby.
Speaker 1:you know you spend what, spend what you can on it and it takes.
Speaker 4:It takes a little while to build up the, the pharmacy of stuff that. I have my, my garage. We had a fire in our garage couple years ago. I lost a lot of it. So Is probably taking me three years just to get back up to close to what I had before. And I don't buy it all at the same time. I don't order all it, just kind of buy it when I need it, like the Sedgehammer once I had it, some nuts edged up to 4D. I get the cheapest. Whatever I can.
Speaker 1:It takes a while though yeah, and what the weeds you can always hand?
Speaker 3:pull a lot of those if that's what you want to do, yeah.
Speaker 1:I remember this was years and years ago and I had a pretty, pretty decent lawn. I didn't. I was doing all the, you know, mowing it short, so wouldn't have to mow it that often time thing and probably over watering at times but I did. I got out in the yard a lot, a lot of evenings and just pulled weeds.
Speaker 4:But yeah, as a kid we had to step out would get motivated occasionally yeah and it was the job of everybody in the family to go out and help them pull weeds, because that was all he need the chemical right and all go. He'd lose in four hours. Of that, I mean lose.
Speaker 1:Well, you're probably happy about that too. I didn't mind mowing it, I just didn't want to yeah, that's the same thing today.
Speaker 4:I don't like mowing it, I just don't want it's a lot easier to spray if you can.
Speaker 1:But I mean, if that's your option, then pull.
Speaker 4:Well, there's also a lot of home remedies that you can use, that you stuff you may have around the house. You know you can get online and look up all types of ways to kill weeds besides going to the store and buying something. Yeah, yeah, definitely can okay, so let's talk about our Facebook group shout outs this week. What do we have on?
Speaker 1:So the first one we have is from Ben Hardy yeah yeah, he's a. I thought this this was kind of relevant because he's talking about water in his lawn, so we talked about on An episode a while back about the tuna can yes, measuring.
Speaker 1:so Measuring how much water your sprinkler system, splitting out right by putting a tuna can out there and then measuring the water in a certain amount of time. Well, he has. He made up some cups with spikes on them that he could put into his yard and he got. He said he got about a fourth of an inch and 30 minutes, which was way less than he thought, but at least he knows you know the rate of watering and how much he has to do, how much watering he has to do to get to that inch, inch and a half per month.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and Ben, that was a pretty ingenious way of doing that, yeah, it was. So he took the bottom of styrofoam cups and put some looks like skewers on the side of them, taped them to it and just put it in his yard Very, very smart.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a lot more sophisticated than our tuna can. Yeah, yeah absolutely.
Speaker 4:But you know, ben you're. I'm looking at your photos here and your lawn looks so yeah, it looks like a golf course. Very nice, good job, and that's something you can share with people of if you're wanting to know how to do this. He got this thread here and people are talking about it by doing it. Our other one that we have is Christina Gomez, so she got a lot of rain. She's got the opposite problem that we have Right. Yeah, she's getting all of our rain, so combined with hers on top of it.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. I know it looks like a flood, but I'm still jealous. I'm sure she wishes she could give some to us, because she has more than she needs.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, she's got a little river running down the side of her house here, so she got video as well. You know, I often say that the droughts around here ended by floods, and that's so true, yeah, so many times. And they're already predicting a very wet fall for us, so I have high hopes for my fall lawn.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah. The good thing about here is it stays warm a lot later in the year, so if we can get some good rain in the fall, we can have some nice looking lawns.
Speaker 4:this fall and be warm enough for it to still be growing, and I typically keep mowing well into October, sometimes into November, just depending on what's going on with the weather. Look at October 31st, Halloween, when everybody's coming around for candy. I look at that as my last show date of the year, right.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 4:And I'm always going to be here. So three show dates, so yeah, what's the labor days at the beginning? What are the memorial?
Speaker 1:days Memorial day.
Speaker 4:You have a memorial day in the spring, you got Fourth of July in the middle of the summer, and then you got Halloween at the end.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 4:Those are my three show dates that. I always try to make sure I prep the lawn for those dates. But yeah, we typically are able to mow well into what everybody else would call fall. We don't have a real fall here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's kind of new to me, Because back I lived in far North Texas, almost Oklahoma, and by October the grass was pretty dormant. There I was for Halloween, I was getting the leaves out of the yard, raking the leaves up out of the yard, so the yard wouldn't look too bad.
Speaker 4:Some years are that way. Now it just depends on the weather. But if we have a wet, warm fall, which I think we'll probably are is what they're telling us, but we'll see. If we do, then you can get that October 31st green lawn, so I enjoy doing it. I enjoy trying anyway. Yeah, but Christina, your lawn underneath all that water looks great, so it looks like you're doing all the right things?
Speaker 1:Yeah, doing all the right things, for sure yeah.
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Speaker 3: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.
