Growing grass in a dry climate
It’s true that growing and maintaining a lovely thick lawn that looks and feels wonderful under your feet is getting increasingly difficult with water conservation foremost on many people’s minds. But it’s not impossible. There are suggestions for areas such as California and Arizona that it’s best to simply give in and replace your lawn with synthetic grass, but there are still options available if you want to go for a natural lawn.
Although the temperatures soar in the summer months, if you have prepared your soil properly you have every chance of surviving the warmer months with a strongly growing lawn. Your first step is to add as many nutrients as you can into the yard. It doesn’t matter whether you already have a healthy lawn or are planting a new lawn, the best chance it has of survival is with a solid boost of compost fertilizer.
If you are starting a new lawn from scratch then it will simply be a matter of digging in wheelbarrow load after wheelbarrow load of rich compost, working it in deeply to the soil. An existing lawn will involve topsoiling the lawn with the compost. Once it has been put in place and watered in, it will work its way down into the subsoil over time. The grass will grow through it within a couple of weeks anyway.
When you have given your lawn this kind of start it will be able to build a strong root network that will sink deeply into the soil. Although the grass may brown off slightly in the summer, depending on the type of grass you use, it will come back strongly when it cools.
The best types of grass for warmer climates include Bermuda Grass, Buffalo Grass, Tall Fescue and Zoysia Grass. Planting one of these types of grass in the cooler months and getting the lawn well established before it begins to grow hotter will help avoid a barren wasteland in the front or backyard by the end of summer.
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