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Sprinkler question...
How often and for how many minutes to you run your flower beds? How long and often to do your run the lawn. Our water bill is out of control, and I'm looking to make some cuts!
Re: Sprinkler question...
Use this as your guide:
http://www.randylemmon.com/lawns/gardenline-watering.html
I would say it varies and no one could give you a good answer on what's best for your yard without seeing it. Our yard is divided into 12 zones and they are pretty different in watering times because of where they are, length of sun exposure, trees no trees, etc.
How long are you watering now? It could also be the type of sprinkler heads you are using- spray vs mist in certain areas.
I'm definitely not an individual with a green thumb nor should I be admitting how much we water
When I turn on the hose, I don't actually watch the time. Sometimes it's 20 minutes, and sometimes it's a couple of hours (on the extreme side). I'm sure our water bill will be crazy as well. Ooops.
Flower beds 3x a week for 12 minutes, except one side of the house where the neighbors driveway is... that goes for 6...
Lawn 3x a week for 18 minutes.
Everything looks decent, but out water bill is $200!!!!!!! Our lot is 12,000 sq feet and we have 16 trees. 9 are very big old oaks...
Your flower beds are most likely being over watered. I believe ours are 3x a week but only 6-8 minutes. Most thinks in flower beds don't root very deeply so n need to water that long. I'd bet you are putting down more than an inch of water there per time.
Our lawn is also 3x a week but different lengths of time depending on the part of the yard. Your old trees don't need as much water as you think.
I tried cutting back the lawn. It got crunchy quickly. Honestly, it's just hanging on with what we are giving it. I can't afford to keep it green. I'm just keeping it alive!
I do think the flower beds can be cut back. Now, I need to figure out how to reprogram the damn thing....
Dont really have flower beds but we water the front lawn 2 hours once a week (St. Augestine), its full sun all day. We were doing 1 hr/wk up through May and just had to bump it up. Our grass looks awesome.
I've only just started doing the back yard (mixed full sun/part shade) about 2 weeks ago, and have been doing about 1 hour once a week in sections. I've also started laying the soaker hose on our trees once a week also for an additional hour (not the crappy Chinese Tallows but for the Magnolia and some other hardwood). Water bill is $150-$180.
Kind of high but better than having a dead tree removed or the foundation repaired. We also run a foundation soaker hose 15 minues a day.
Its also important to water deeply rather than frequently. Our neighbors water daily for about 5 minutes at a time and their gardners cut it too short every week, and it looks awful. Watering deeply will encourage roots to grown down and away from the baking sun. Keeping the lawn taller will also protect the roots from burning in the sun.