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.

I'm hoping the roots are still alive.

I've been away for two weeks and it's crispy in parts. I've lived here 25 years and never watered. Do I bother watering now?

Give it some time. Morning irrigation helps in the recovery.

Anonymous wrote:It is likely not dead, just dormant!

+1. This

Correction: Formerly

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.

Anonymous wrote:About a third of my lawn is dry and yellow. It's never looked like this before, so I don't know whether it will bounce back.

Unless you have the wrong grass for this area, it’s just dormant not dead.

About a third of my lawn is dry and yellow. It's never looked like this before, so I don't know whether it will bounce back.

Only bits. We are sociopaths and water.

It is likely not dead, just dormant!

I stopped mowing. The lawn has crispy patches. I try to water when I can

The lawn is brown but not completely dead.

Yes, my lawn is brown and/or has missing patches of grass.

Yes, but no. At the end of May, I put weed killer, and it killed the weeds somewhat, as well as the grass. Combined with this heat, spots on the grass are dead. I've been watering, but as it is with bare spots, weeds will grow there as there is no grass. The best preventative for weeds is to have medium-tall grass that creates shade, and many weeds can't grow in the shade. Grass dies first because it is not a natural plant in our area.

Did the heat/dry wave kill your lawn?

Is there a survival order of which kinds of grass/weeds die first in heat/dry?