Posted : Monday, June 21, 2010
WTNH Channel 8 Interview with Chris Brown #2
I once again had the honor of being interviewed at WTNH on Good Morning Connecticut. This time, we spoke about irrigation, and the best approach to properly water your lawn. Enjoy! -Chris Brown
Posted : Wednesday, June 16, 2010
How to Water Your Lawn
Watering your lawn is trickier and more complicated than many people realize. Here we take some of the guesswork out and help you to get the job done simply and correctly.
Posted : Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Lawns are Going Dormant!
Transcript: Written June 8, 2010.
We have received very little water this year. Unfortunately the weather forecast keeps predicting water, so a lot of people have it in their minds that we have gotten a lot more than we actually did. The result of this lack of water of course is that lawns are turning brown and going dormant, as seen in the video clip.
What is dormancy? It is actually a survival mechanism by which the lawn sort of hibernates in order to survive tougher weather. While that’s actually a great thing from a survival standpoint, from an aesthetic standpoint it’s not so nice. When a lawn goes dormant, it is going into survival mode where it takes all the juices and liquids that were in the blades making them nice and healthy and it is sucking them back into the crown and roots so the grass can survive the dry weather.
Once all the juices and liquids are sucked out of the grass blades, it’s kind of like popping a water balloon. You can’t fill them back up again. What you are left with is a bunch of brown blades of grass that are not going to green up again. However, the grass will produce new green shoots when it does get enough water. Now that’s great, but the problem is that the new shoots of grass are going to come from the crowns and the roots and it’s going to take them a few weeks to grow up through the brown stuff to green up your whole lawn again.
If you are at all unsure of about how much water you should be using, start by watering each section of your lawn for 45 minutes, 3 times per week. See where that takes you. If the lawn gets really nice, lush, and green, great! You can back off a little bit. If it’s still kind of brown and dry, you can give us a call so we can take a look at it to make sure there are no other problems, or go ahead and boost it up to maybe 4 times a week to see what that does. But remember, if the lawn has already gone dormant it’s going to take a few weeks to green up again. If it hasn’t, good! You are ahead of the game. -Chris Brown
Posted : Friday, July 18, 2008
MTE: Grubs in July?
I received a question from a New Milford, CT homeowner who asked about the possibility of grubs in his property, and the right way to control them. Check out the response!
Posted : Friday, July 18, 2008
Helpful Tidbits: Dog Spots
Peter Teed shows just how friendly our “Best Friends” can be to our lawns. Enjoy the video!
