Step 3
Water, but not too much.
Like fertilizing, watering calls for restraint. Daily shallow watering discourages grass roots from digging deep to find soil moisture, so when drought strikes, a lawn is more susceptible to damage. Deep watering, every two weeks or so, is better. In fact, if you grow the proper turf-grass for your area—if you’re not trying to grow bluegrass for example—then you can probably get by without any watering. Yes, the lawn may lose some of its luster during dry months, but it will spring back when rains return.
No water? Little fertilizer? Tall grass? How is this lawn going to look? Better than ever. In time, it will be thicker and sport a more honest green color than it ever would with chemical fertilizers, even as its appearance changes with the seasons—as nature intended.
ref: Warren Schultz
