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Mon, Jun 20, 11 at 19:23
| Temperatures have hit 100 plus and I would love to water a small section of bermuda late at night between 8-9 pm when it's a lot cooler(about 80 degrees now). Is it ok?
My yard has a small area that doesn't have a sprinkler system so I have to do it manually. |
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RE: Is it ok to water late at night?
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| There are several issues with watering at night: 1. Automatic sprinklers can break. If your system breaks at 3am you may never know it until the grass dies in a few weeks. This is not a problem with bermuda nor with you because you have a manual system. 2. Disease can enter the picture when you don't have good water absorption into the soil and when you don't have good air movement over the grass. Hard soil can hold water in puddles and kill the beneficial microbes which prevent disease. This may or may not be a problem; however, bermuda hardly ever gets disease. 3. Sprinklers can become aimed in the wrong direction. If you water at night you might not notice until...as in 1 above, the grass dies. Again, this is not an issue for you. Otherwise, watering at night allows the water to penetrate more deeply because you don't have the sun beating down on the soil evaporating it away. |
RE: Is it ok to water late at night?
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| A lot of it also depends on where you live. It's arid here, so diseases are less of a problem. And winds are more likely during the day than at night, so watering at night leads to less loss due to wind (as well as less loss due to evaporation before it hits the ground). But in some areas, watering at night is a bad idea. |
RE: Is it ok to water late at night?
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| So watering at night is ok as opposed to early morning? Am I missing something here? |
RE: Is it ok to water late at night?
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| "So watering at night is ok as opposed to early morning?" It depends. |
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RE: Is it ok to water late at night?
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| In your case it is probably okay. If you had a grass type that was susceptible to fungal disease (you don't) and lived in a humid area (like 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico), then maybe you would want the sun to start drying it out after an hour or two. |
RE: Is it ok to water late at night?
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| I always water in the early evening. It's never been a problem for me. I live in a semi arid area and the humidity is nearly always low. |
RE: Is it ok to water late at night?
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| If it rains overnight, does that potentially cause disease as a sprinkler can? |
RE: Is it ok to water late at night?
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| Okay, so I live in eastern Kansas. I have to come to believe, through other articles, that it's best for the brown patch that my TTTF lawn has terrible problems with to water at night because it (a) supposedly rinses bad microbes off that the dew has in it that can make the fungus problem worse, and (b) because the grass is often wet anyways because of the dew. Here in Kansas, you never know what the weather will be, but it's rare to have a night with the humidity less then 50% - often it's more like 70%-100%, and the wind varies, but typically there some breeze but not much. What is best for me? I've heard that watering in the morning just prolongs the time that the leaves are wet, but often there will be no dew when I turn the sprinklers on before bed. I like the fact that it's long watering periods - soaking the soil deeply. I have never noticed standing water after a night of watering. Any ideas? Thanks! |
RE: Is it ok to water late at night?
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| I think you'll be okay if you only water once a week and after 10pm. Here in NC we get rain at night all the time in the summer. |
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