Bubbler86
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A lot has to do with types of plants and sun. The stuff we have to water every day gets sun much of the day.
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Yep. Forget the grass, I understand all the views on that and understand why some would not do it. But if the veggies and non food bearing plants were not watered daily they would wilt.
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It is crazy but I am committed to it. Your way is just as valid. You do get more rain than I do.
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That is not going to get the water through the grass. The golf course here outside Waynesboro is watering twice a day right now from what I can see. Still brown.
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Getting 1/4" of water on grass takes a long time. Some sites say 1" but that is not doable in my situation. I would be watering 12 hours a day. With a sprinkler attached to a hose it would be 8-10 hours for a yard our size and moving it around as needed. I do parts of the yard each night BY HAND with a hose to the tune of 1-2 hours a night. If we had an irrigation system, it would do multiple zones at once and not take as long. Putting less than 1/4" weakens the roots and you end up with dead grass. If I just did the plants, it would take about an hour a day.
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My wife and I are probably about 80 hours invested into watering grass and plants since June 1. In Florida it would have taken us 5 years to have spent that much time doing the same. We did maybe 2 hours a week during the summer and none during the winter. Now it is 2-3 hours day with a day or two off after it rains.
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That radar image is the Nam of radars.
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I choo choo choosed to not tell you.
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LOL, not mine of course. I live in dry gulch.
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There is always this...Astroturf.
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Sure, if you had a lot of trees but most people do not on 1-2 acres. I mean anyone can do anything but to me it is hard to ask someone to just let their 1-2 no tree acres yard grow what it wants. Understand your opinion though.
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That is sustainable in a city environ but hard to ask people with 1-2 acres to just "let it go". In Florida, maintaining a lawn is a requirement of many gated and HOA based communities. The water bill is sometimes 200-300/MO
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If you go to Delaware/Southern MD you will see those giant football field sized irrigators that straddle the fields. Not sure if they just do water or do water and some kind of plant food/fertilizer/pest deterrent.
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I think it may be against the rule to water grass in some areas.
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It is too big for that stuff in my opinion. Needs some kind of ground cover. Insurance paid to rip out and reseed once, and I am trying to keep some of that alive. I have been fairly quiet about it this year compared to the past. Two or Three years ago (I think) the drought was WV. Western MD and only a small area of PA near me while a lot of you guys where swimming in rain on and off...I had trouble being so composed then. Plus, this is NOTHING compared to that. 1"-2" in about 90 days. At one point we had a 15" deficit for the year (as did HGR....12-15).
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HRRR has rain showers coming through this afternoon (light) so not going to be too dry.
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It is too big to do much else with it. It is grass or let it die vs. Clovers or rocks.
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CMC. It is 78 here at 2:25. Did someone leave their door open with the AC on? The only idiom here is me for planting more grass.
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Comedic
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This is when it all started going downhill...not ITT's post, the "Get ready for heavy rain" post by the NWS. We got around 1/4" and other than July 4th, it has been drips and drabs since early June.
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The area from Northern Dauphin north (and East) has been wet most summers for seemingly 1/2 decade now. I just near 2" since June 1 here myself. The first half of June was a nothing burger.
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Cloudy and 76 degrees @ 35 before nooner. A pair of Windows Open LSV night ahead.
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Both Sat and next week. Next week the front gets closer to us and a risk of some very warm days if no clouds/rain but also a much closer locale to any waves Warm meaning low 90's. Short-term models show a wave forming and moving out to our SE over the next 48-72 hours. Actually, more than one wave but the one Sat afternoon is closer to us due to the front starting the move back north.
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I knew there was something I was missing so I was curious as much about what it was vs. you not having the right figure.
