Tall fescue

That might not sound like a lot, but your sprinkler system uses about 12 gallons of water per minute, which works out to 2,160 gallons or $13 over three hours. A leak in the system will spike your water bill even higher.

Calculating Water Use To provide your lawn with one inch of water takes a little over half a gallon per square foot (0.623 gallon to be more exact). That means that every 10’x10′ area will require over 62 gallons of water.

Typical sprinkler flow rates may vary from 4 gallons per minute (gpm) from a 5/32-inch nozzle at 30 pounds pressure to over 11 gpm from a 7/32-inch nozzle at 70 pounds pressure. The nozzle size is usually stamped on the nozzle. Wheelmove systems typically have 3/16-inch nozzles.

After turf grass selection, fertilization is the most important factor in growing a dark-green lawn. To encourage green growth, choose a lawn fertilizer with a high percentage of nitrogen and a low percentage of phosphorous.

1. Improve Your Soil. To get the most out of every step to a thicker lawn, take a tip from lawn pros and test your soil.
2. Overseed. Overseeding is simply sowing grass seed into existing grass to make thin lawns thick—or keep them from getting thin.
3. Fertilize.
4. Boost Your Lawn.
5. Irrigate.
6. Mow Properly.
7. Control Weeds.

Dark Green Grass Types

• Zoysia Japonica. Zoysia japonica, a member of the Zoysia species, and generally referred to as Zoysiagrass, has a deep, dark green color and and produces a thick turf that is very tolerant of a number of conditions, but not cool weather.
• Perennial Ryegrass.
• Bluegrass.
• Fescue.

Bermudagrass

Fescue

Rich, thick Kentucky bluegrass tolerates foot traffic and heavy use better than either hard or red fescue. However, coarse-bladed tall fescue is more tolerant of foot traffic than Kentucky bluegrass and can withstand the wear of people getting in and out of vehicles.

Midnight Kentucky Bluegrass

Kentucky bluegrass lawns typically require more fertilizer than tall fescue grasses. Fertilize your summer lawn with Pennington UltraGreen Lawn Fertilizer 30-0-4. The added iron helps maintain KBG’s beautiful emerald color.

Weeding: Most bluegrass lawns are thick enough to choke out most of the weeds. With the emergence of newer, improved varieties many bluegrass lawns can now be mown shorter than 2 inches. Mowing maintenance requires that you should never remove over a third of the growth at the time.

Applying Epsom Salt to your lawn is a safe, natural solution to help with seed germination, nutrient absorption, growth, and the general health of lawns and plants in your yard. It will ultimately facilitate the lush green growth and healthy look that you’re looking to see in your yard.

Use Epsom salt as lawn fertilizer in the spring to facilitate lush green growth. Add 2 tablespoons (29.5 mL.) to each gallon (3.7 L.) of water used on the lawn. If you have a sprinkler system, lightly sprinkle directly atop the grass and then allow the system to water into the sod.

For grass seeds and wildflowers, sprinkle one cup Epsom salts per 100 square feet, blend into the soil, and water thoroughly. Reapply an Epsom salt drench to seedlings every month during growing season.

If you’re planning to add a nitrogen fertilizer to your lawn, use coffee grounds as an additive to the mix. Coffee grounds encourage microbes to grow in the soil, helping use the nitrogen. The microbes break down the coffee grounds, allowing nitrogen to add even more nutrients to your growing grass plants.

Coffee grounds, either fresh or recycled will not kill ants unless they are combined with other ingredients like hot water or borax. Boiling coffee can be poured into an anthill to effectively eradicate these pests.

Spread coffee grounds on the surface of potting soil around the base of a plant to repel insects and slugs. Cover the grounds with a mulch of leaves, bark or compost — if the coffee grounds dry out they could repel water. Renew the coffee grounds and mulch whenever necessary.

planters

1. Plastic Bottles. Recycle your plastic bottles by using them at the bottom of your big containers. Your flowers and plants will love the extra breathing room inside.
2. Packing Peanuts. Reuse your Styrofoam packing peanuts as filler for large pots.
3. Wood Chips. Don’t have enough of the previous two ingredients?
4. Landscape Rocks.