006 Irrigation irritation

Over the years, I have been incredibly stupid when it comes to my lawn. I've seeded, weeded, raked, mowed, trimmed, limed, sprayed, conditioned, and dressed this lawn spending large sums of money and investing many many hours of labor.

All for nothing.

Because I didn't water the lawn. Oh, I would try. I'd set out a sprinkler, move it around, but not consistently. And who wants to trot around their wet yard, moving sprinklers and dealing with 150 feet of hose. My front yard is fairly long. I always gave up after a few days. Truly dumb. All that work, some of it back breaking, like spreading soil to dress the lawn, came to nothing because I was too inconvenienced to water the lawn.

No more. This spring, we are going to do what our much smarter neighbors have done already. We're going to put in an irrigation system. We won't use it everyday. The lawn really only needs about 1/2" to 1" per week to stay green and healthy.

This is item #6 (in no particular order) on my newly created 101 things in 1,001 days. I'll be sharing the list with you over the next few weeks. It's all written. I've spent the past week writing it, but I didn't want to dump it out here as one huge list.

Details to follow.