Watering Fescue
Fescue needs approximately 1 inch of irrigation per week to perform its
best. Keeping mind that many factors and site situations will make that
figure fluctuate. The only way to determine how much you lawn needs is
to evaluate its performance and log irrigation efforts.
I
strongly recommend watering “days consecutive” instead of “ days alternate”.
By giving your lawn water on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, then off the
remainder of the week you will force water deep into the top soil. Alternate
days schedule only dampens the top layer of soil and allows a dry out period
between cycles. A good watering plan must start here.
Newly
seeded fescue needs a sprits of water everyday, twice a day is even better,
but only for a short period of maybe 5 minutes or less. All you want is
just enough to dampen the soil. This is critical yet simple with the Rainbird
ESP LX.
Continue
this process until you feel that all the seeds have germinated and reduce
all irrigation by 50%. The number of possible configurations are many ie:
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Number of minutes per cycle.
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