Did the heat/dry wave kill your lawn?

[Anonymous]

Lawn is cooked. The clovers and weeds survived

[Anonymous]

We saw it stating to brown so turned the irrigation to water everyday and it looks good now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop watering your lawns. It is a massive waste of water. Your grass will be fine. It will bounce back in the fall. The obsession with green lawns is insane.

wrong, you need to keep the grass up or the hoa or county can be called to fine you

[Anonymous]

Zoysia lawn here, we're good!

[Anonymous]

My almost entirely weed-based lawn (aka, my "accidental clover" lawn) is looking green and lush.

Sadly many perennials (incl. natives) are half dead, but can't win 'em all...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My almost entirely weed-based lawn (aka, my "accidental clover" lawn) is looking green and lush.

Sadly many perennials (incl. natives) are half dead, but can't win 'em all...

My clover even got crispy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop watering your lawns. It is a massive waste of water. Your grass will be fine. It will bounce back in the fall. The obsession with green lawns is insane.

wrong, you need to keep the grass up or the hoa or county can be called to fine you

You can buy green paint for grass then. Zero water will be needed.

Most of the time, these rules are now completely unenforceable across the country. HOAs can't make you waste a precious resource like water for a stupid lawn.

[Anonymous]

Ours is quite brown. It is not dead.

It is dormant and will green up as soon as we get more rains. We do not water the lawn at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop watering your lawns. It is a massive waste of water. Your grass will be fine. It will bounce back in the fall. The obsession with green lawns is insane.

wrong, you need to keep the grass up or the hoa or county can be called to fine you

When the county pays my electricity bill to pump water then they can fine me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My almost entirely weed-based lawn (aka, my "accidental clover" lawn) is looking green and lush.

Sadly many perennials (incl. natives) are half dead, but can't win 'em all...

My clover even got crispy.

+1 Our lawn is mostly "volunteers" at this point, but even they are struggling with it being so hot and SO. DRY.

[Anonymous]

Water it daily. Looks damn good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our once green lawn is now brown and crispy, except for the crabgrass!

Losing my annual, formally thought of as hearty, stonecrop ground cover. It’s turning to dust.

Deer have decimated hosta and my potted flower mix plants. Trying to revive now and have pushed the pots further back against my house.

Accidentally left a huge jade plant outside overnight and the deer got this, too.
Oh well.

Sad about some heritage transplants I have: one a vine (maybe a variegated ficus?) from my grandparents’ house circa 1999 and pachysandra from my childhood home - both are getting fried despite my daily watering. Hope it’s not too late. Neither of these plants needed my attention before this summer!

The plants I was thinking about digging up and
removing from my front yard - liriope and a 25 year old ornamental grass (planted by original owner) are growing on and seem to be thriving. Of course.

I swear nothing kills liriope. I dug some up from my front yard and a neighbor mentioned wanting some of it. They were on vacation so I threw it in my backyard in a pile in the heat of August. I forgot about it for a month and not one clump of it died. We became the liriope farm for people who wanted the plant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop watering your lawns. It is a massive waste of water. Your grass will be fine. It will bounce back in the fall. The obsession with green lawns is insane.

wrong, you need to keep the grass up or the hoa or county can be called to fine you

You can buy green paint for grass then. Zero water will be needed.

Most of the time, these rules are now completely unenforceable across the country. HOAs can't make you waste a precious resource like water for a stupid lawn.

Exactly. Hoa have different rules so some try to be strict about grass and weeds. They can't win in court anymore.

If anyone's hoa comes at them about grass, particularly during this drought, fight back. We are stuck in droughts every single summer since forever and it's time they stop this nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our once green lawn is now brown and crispy, except for the crabgrass!

Losing my annual, formally thought of as hearty, stonecrop ground cover. It’s turning to dust.

Deer have decimated hosta and my potted flower mix plants. Trying to revive now and have pushed the pots further back against my house.

Accidentally left a huge jade plant outside overnight and the deer got this, too.
Oh well.

Sad about some heritage transplants I have: one a vine (maybe a variegated ficus?) from my grandparents’ house circa 1999 and pachysandra from my childhood home - both are getting fried despite my daily watering. Hope it’s not too late. Neither of these plants needed my attention before this summer!

The plants I was thinking about digging up and
removing from my front yard - liriope and a 25 year old ornamental grass (planted by original owner) are growing on and seem to be thriving. Of course.

I swear nothing kills liriope. I dug some up from my front yard and a neighbor mentioned wanting some of it. They were on vacation so I threw it in my backyard in a pile in the heat of August. I forgot about it for a month and not one clump of it died. We became the liriope farm for people who wanted the plant.

So it's your fault that dreaded plant is springing up all over my yard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop watering your lawns. It is a massive waste of water. Your grass will be fine. It will bounce back in the fall. The obsession with green lawns is insane.

wrong, you need to keep the grass up or the hoa or county can be called to fine you

DP. In D.C., no HOA. I'm not worried that anyone is going to fine me for having a short, mostly dead-looking, lawn in the middle of July. Would be nice if it rained a bunch and the grass came back, but hey, at least I don't have to mow...