Winter into Summer!

Record breaking temperatures this past weekend put great demands on trees and shrubs trying to leaf out. Plants need a lot of water and nutrients in order to produce leaves and flowers. They need alot of water to move nutrients from the ground to the tips of their branches. Turf can grow several inches a week and each blade of grass is more than 90% water. If you haven't turn your sprinklers on then now is the time. Have the rotary sprinklers run 30-40 minutes every other day. Spray or mist sprinklers should run approximately 10 minutes every other day. Drip irrigation can run every day for 30 minutes. If you see the water puddling up on top of the ground then you are watering too long and cut the time by 10% until it stops puddling. When the weather cools off and it feels like spring again then you can lower your watering time by 50%. Overwatering can be as damaging to your landscape as not watering at all.