Anyone watering in MA?

[Jeff508]

I am already seeing signs of drought stress - that dark grey tint in the sunny part of my front lawn with KBG. TTTF is just doing fine. I never watered this early in the season but with no rain in last 3 weeks and nothing in the forecast, I am watering now. I hope this is not an early indication of what's to come.

[neal]

Yep. I watered on Sunday. It's been super dry in West Rox.

[paulr]

No rain out here in the boonies for 2 weeks either. Luckily, I'm still reaping last falls bene's, so I have not seen any stress yet. Mowed Sunday and ready to mow again tonight.

[ReD-BaRoN]

I'm watering, but mostly to water in the Dimension, Grubex and whatever else I have to put on the lawn.

[mattya]

We got almost half an inch on 4/20 and another .15 inches the 23rd, so I haven't really watered yet. I watered a little to work in a heavy dose of SLS and the peat moss I applied though, but nothing more than 1/4".

[Masslawn]

Watered in a full inch Sat night/Sun morning. Should get me to NEXT weeks rain (if that happens)

Everything is extrame in Ma, too hot in the summer, to much snow in the winter, no rain in the spring. Fall seems to be the best season in these parts.

Watch it will rain all of June with high humidity. I'll be ready with the Natria.

[stack316]

I am not watering in Whitman MA, last week had 1 inch of rain, this week my guess 0 and the lawn looks great (i probably would water if i had an irrigation system)...Neighbor has their irrigation system running every night this week...
O.T.
happy only have had 3 dandelions in my yard...
nothing put down on my lawn yet. Waiting for mid-may.
mowing once a week.

[Smolenski7]

Here in central CT we haven't seen any measurable rain since April 12th. However, my lawn isn't showing any signs of stress. However, I don't have a huge amount of KBG, it's a northern mix with mostly fescue and more Rye than KBG.

[Nick]

I did start watering on Monday, about 0.5 inches at the most.

[Green]

I've had to water in CT. ~2.5 weeks so far with no rain, and one more to go.

Some of the grass threatened to go dormant especially where there are tree roots. It's first spring post overseed, I can't allow that.

[mattya]

Watered in a full inch Sat night/Sun morning. Should get me to NEXT weeks rain (if that happens)

Everything is extrame in Ma, too hot in the summer, to much snow in the winter, no rain in the spring. Fall seems to be the best season in these parts.

Watch it will rain all of June with high humidity. I'll be ready with the Natria.

Are you one of the rare MA soils that isn't pure sand?

[ReD-BaRoN]

I'm presuming that having sandy soil would cause you to have to water less, since it gets down into the soil faster?

[andy10917]

Wrong. It also disappears faster.

[ReD-BaRoN]

OK, so if I'm using stress as an indicator of when to water, and presuming I have sandy soil based on being NE and my soil test, from what I'm reading in several threads, I don't need to water a full inch, but I might have to water more often?

[mattya]

Correct. It could end up being more overall, but you just won't need it all at once.

[Nick]

I looked at the forecast for the next 5-6 days: sun, no rain. As a result, I watered again this morning my front KBG yard again. No harm, in my opinion as my soil is a bit sandy.

[marcopepe]

I did not water yet in Weymouth. Grass looks great.

[Masslawn]

Looks like i'll be watering again this weekend.

[bballer320xu]

Yes, 4x a day & 10 minutes per zone in Fitchburg. I'm in the process of attempting a spring reno so obviously my demands are a bit higher. I'm hoping the consistently dry weather helps out since I can control the water output.

+1 on sandy soil in MA. Growing up in Western PA, I was spoiled with naturally fertile soil.

[GeorgiaDad]

Only watered in the pre-m. Mother Nature has blessed us with just under 30" of rain since Jan 1. Lite rain falling now. I'm more worried about getting rust.