{"id":13267,"date":"2021-08-17T21:25:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T01:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=13267"},"modified":"2021-08-17T21:03:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T01:03:30","slug":"smart-water-use-in-the-summer-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2021\/08\/17\/smart-water-use-in-the-summer-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Water Use In The Summer Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Watering-can-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Watering-can-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Watering-can-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Watering-can-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Water: A Valuable Asset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When the heat of the summer settles in, water is in high demand. Here is some practices to implement when planting a water-wise garden,  <br>irrigating lawngrass, and better mulching practices to improve soil moisture levels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Lawn grass species vary in their water needs. Cool season grasses like fescues and bluegrasses are moderately drought tolerant, turn off-color during dry periods (&#8220;their summer dormancy&#8221;), and recover when adequate rainfall returns. Warm season grasses like bermuda and zoysia grasses are more drought tolerant than fescues and bluegrasses.<\/li><li>Irrigate in the morning to reduce water loss to evaporation and minimize disease risks.<\/li><li>Plant more drought tolerant plants. For examples, cacti , euphorbias, and succulents are low water users. Many prairie flowers such purple coneflowers (<em>Echinacea<\/em>), black-eyed Susans (<em>Rudbeckia<\/em>), blanket flower (<em>Gaillardia<\/em>), yarrows (<em>Achillea<\/em>), hyssop (<em>Agastache<\/em>), Russian sages (<em>Perovskia<\/em>), lavenders (<em>Lavandula<\/em>), and sedums are some favorites.      <\/li><li>Repair leaks in hoses and faucets.<\/li><li>Don\u2019t use fine mist sprinklers and avoid watering on a windy day.<\/li><li>Drip or trickle irrigation systems are better water users than overhead sprinklers<\/li><li>Target sprinklers to irrigate plants and not driveways and walkways.<\/li><li>Collect rainwater in rain barrels or rain gardens.<\/li><li>Mulch using organic amendments such as pine bark, pine needles, and wood mulches will reduce surface evaporation. Newspapers, cardboard, and grass clippings serve as good mulches. <\/li><li>Summer pruning to reduce vegetative competition.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lavandula-angusstifolia-Mumstead-1-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lavandula-angusstifolia-Mumstead-1-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lavandula-angusstifolia-Mumstead-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Lavandula-angusstifolia-Mumstead-1-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>&#8216;Munstead&#8217; Lavender &#8211; drought tolerant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the heat of the summer settles in, water is in high demand. Here is some practices to implement when planting a water-wise garden, irrigating lawngrass, and better mulching practices to improve soil moisture levels: Lawn grass species vary in their water needs. Cool season grasses like fescues and bluegrasses are moderately drought tolerant, turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1539,1117,1439,911,768,1037,806,1384,1312,774,1036,731,889,853,1098,1155,676,551,625,843,840,601,729,1382,1038,1258,1039,1274,1516,777,630,1,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13270,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13267\/revisions\/13270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}