A 2

I dont cut my lawn short. Lawn mower is at its highest setting and I typically set to mulch and never bag. Lawn turned brown in several place and I watered it every other day a tiny bit. With the rain we've been getting over the last two days, it has been turning to green again.

Neighbor across the street is selling his home. Therefore he waters it everyday and his is the only lawn in the area that is lush green. I make sure all the plants and garden patches are well watered though. Grass will come back, plants need regular water.

A 2

planting this sign will keep them away

Scooterboy

With the exception of a few small spots my lawn is a lush green. Thank you Scotts and Lake Erie!

Jet sitter

The key, like was mentioned above, is to keep it a little higher than normal and set your sprinkler's to go off early in the morning. The sprinkler's go off at 0430 and each circuit goes off for a specified time between 15 to 25 minute's, dependant upon the sprinkler flow rate.

poorshoeless

My lawn is pretty green with a few brown spot from Chloe our dog. I have my sprinkler set for 10 to 20 minutes interval, depending on the zone and flow rate as Glen mention. My starting time is set really early in the AM, I believe it go off at 2:00AM.

NNY S2k

Mine is pretty green, then again we've had plenty of rain. When it does go brown it will come back after a couple wet/cooler days in a row.
Levi

mikegarrison

I don't water my lawn. We had a wet and cool June, so my lawn is just now starting to go brown/dormant. In a week or two it will be bright yellow, most likely. And then I won't have to mow it for several months. Hurray!

mikegarrison

It will come back as soon as it gets cooler and rainy for a couple weeks. I let mine go dormant every year, and it always comes back just fine as soon as the rains start again.

zzziippyyy

Bill, I have seen your lawn. Nice lawn btw.The one question I have for you is do you use a lawn service that relies on chemical treatments? If so a major part of the issue would be poor root growth as the EPA has regulated phosphorus out of chemical fertilizers. Just go to a store and look at some Scott's fertilizer bags notice they will be xx-0-xx in their formulation. Without the phosphorus your root growth is becoming stunted and in periods of high heat and stress as we have just experienced up here the lawn will go brown quickly. The solution is to find a company in your area that can treat your lawn organically.

This company specializes is organic applications by the homeowner, give it a look. www.gardensalive.com Feed your soil and in turn that soil will take care of your lawn

raymo19

Yes - and no. If you both have the same variety of grass then yes. But since you are on different coasts I doubt that's the case.

Practically all lawn grasses will recover from drought/heat stress - some more quickly than others. Typically the weeds will recover even more quickly.

What type of grass do you have Bill?