You are too, if you are not using it properly. Remember the old saying "Treat it mean to keep it green!". Well, here's the heads up on watering your Lawn.

A healthy (warm season) turf grass (including kikuyu, buffalo / St Augustine, couch, zoysia turf grasses) will have a root system penetrating the soil profile up to 200mm depth or more. What happens then is the water penetrates deep into the soil and then between "drinks" the top layer (of say 30mm or 1 inch) of soil dries out, hence making it harder for weed seeds to germinate. We bet most people are paying too much for their water. Some people make the mistake of watering their lawns every day for 5 to 10 minutes. So with heavy (and infrequent) watering you help develop a deeper root system for the turf grass and consequently your lawn becomes more drought tolerant, neron and resilient.. As good gardeners we need to water the lawn heavily but infrequently.

This is, however, the worst thing for their lawns. You want to save money on your water bill.

By following this simple rule of deep but infrequent watering, we conserve water and also train our turf grass and the turf's grass root system to search deeper for moisture resulting in a healthier, greener lawn.