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One other thing - watering at night may promote fungus growth, which I've witnessed in the past (shrooms!).
This does occur occasionally but a few mushrooms beats an angry wife who's showering at 5:30 am for work and water pressure is lower because sprinklers are cycling thru.
This does occur occasionally but a few mushrooms beats an angry wife who's showering at 5:30 am for work and water pressure is lower because sprinklers are cycling thru.
This is what I've read too (and almost seems like you copy/pasted)
Since most systems are easier to program even vs. odd days, we do every other day anyway. We don't have a rain sensor, but Rainmachine has made this easier. It also reads the weather forecast and skips a schedule if rain is coming. It also has the added benefit of letting me turn them zones on via smartphone when I see undesirable creatures roam the lawn.
One other thing - watering at night may promote fungus growth, which I've witnessed in the past (shrooms!).
Correct, watering at night promotes fungus growth. It is not specifically due to the fact that it is nighttime watering, the fungus and disease comes from EXTENDED periods of dampness.
At night you have dew, no sunshine, and usually no wind to dry the grass. By the same token, watering at the crack of dawn or before dusk also promotes fungus since you are extending the time that the grass is damp (dew overnight followed or preceded by irrigation). To have the least disease pressure it's best to water mid-day so that the blades of grass have time to dry before evening dew sets in. Don't worry about water lost to evaporation, this is humid LI, not Arizona. Even if some water is lost to evaporation, your lawn will be more disease free if you don't extend the period of time that the grass is wet via dew + irrigation.
^^ I'm no expert but I have never heard anyone say to water in the middle of the day. In fact I hear "experts" day do not water when sun is in full because it burns the grass.
^^ I'm no expert but I have never heard anyone say to water in the middle of the day. In fact I hear "experts" day do not water when sun is in full because it burns the grass.
The burns grass thing is the stupidest theory out there. The ONLY reason you don't want to water in the middle of day is you lose some of the water to evaporation.
The burns grass thing is the stupidest theory out there. The ONLY reason you don't want to water in the middle of day is you lose some of the water to evaporation.
Watering during the day by itself won't burn the grass. What can burn it is if you fertilize during the day after you've watered which causes the granules to stick to the blades and burning the grass (especially if its hot out)
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