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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our sprinkler system runs close to 90 minute a day, 7 days a week and in the peak of summer we might hit 1500 for the quarter. [/quote]

did you landscape your yard into a rainy forest?[/quote]

Not that it matters but we have 12 zones, 7-8 minutes a zone on days when it hasn't rained - ends up around 90 minutes.  [/quote]

It's better for your plants (including grass) to water less frequently and longer -- you want the water to soak down so the plants develop deep roots. [/quote]

This exactly. You'd do better to deeply water each zone early in the morning as possible for 40 minutes each once a week during extremely hot periods. Soaking the ground gives you a little underground reservoir. You want the root system to search for water downwards where it's cool rather than upwards where the heat is. Repeatedly spraying grass briefly with water causes roots to grow towards the surface searching for water. The grass is then weak and dies the moment you miss a watering.[/quote]

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