With water restriction being applied in many different regions now, and our growing awareness of the importance in taking good care of the overall environment we all live in, water conservation is becoming increasingly important to everyone. Water conservation tips are now becoming more widely known and [ … ]

Many people wanting a lawn for their homes are faced with uncertainties around water restrictions, while some others want a low maintenance and low cost lawn requiring the least amount of effort, including watering. This is where having a Drought Tolerant Lawn becomes important.

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Graywater refers to the water which has already been used in the home for other purposes such as bathing, washing dishes, and washing clothes. Graywater reuse refers to a homeowner collecting some of this used water and re-directing it to be used for other means such as irrigation watering of gardens and lawns or flushing toilets.

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Collecting rainwater can seem like a natural, simple and easy thing to do for it's use around our homes and gardens. After all, what can be more natural, and it does seem so much more friendly towards the environment than using processed tap water. However, using rainwater does have many major issues of health, cost and legality surro [ … ]

Another major problem with watering lawns and which is often overlooked by many people is if lawns are being watered too much, or too frequently. The problem of over-watering lawns can cause major damage which may be different to lawns drying out from lack of water, but are equally devastating to the turf.

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Determining whether a lawn requires an adjustment in irrigation is a very important factor in maintaining our lawns in the best health possible. Too much water can be equally as damaging to a lawn as a lawn which is drying out from lack of water, and we'll look at this problem in another article.

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There are many factors which contribute to how much water a lawn needs at each watering, and also how often a lawn needs to be watered. These factors include temperature, wind, the grass type, how healthy the lawn is, the soil type and the amount of thatch in lawn. So while we cannot give an exact magical number for the amount of water [ … ]

Watering our lawns is something which everybody realizes as a priority for maintaining any lawn, especially if we want a beautiful lawn, after all... water is life, and without it the lawn would very quickly die. While everyone may realize this important factor and do indeed keep their lawns well watered, many people simply are not awar [ … ]