Dry grass is most unappealing. Lawns are meant to be tantalizingly green - and in a uniform way. There's lots of advice for fixing dormant lawns.
When exposed to extreme heat, extended cold, or minimal water over a period of time, grass begins to dry, recede, and eventually die if proper growing conditions aren’t restored. This dormancy happens because the grass is trying to preserve itself with limited resources, so it focuses on maintaining the rooting rather than the surface grass. Fortunately, before total death there is a period of dormancy where your lawn is just waiting to come back to life with proper treatment.
If your lawn is starting to look post-apocalyptic, try these tips on how to tell if you have dead or dormant grass:
1. Tug test - if you can pull out dead blades easily, then they have lost their rooting and are dead. Dormant grass holds on.
2. Patterns - dormant grass is uniform across the entire lawn. If it is patchy, then it is likely white grubs or other pests, pet stains or chemicals applied to weeds.
3. Response to watering - green will return with watering dormant grass.
I don't think this is a grass joke, but it is the funniest one retrieved:
A guy goes to the doctor. "Doc, I can't stop singing 'The green, green grass of home.'" "That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome." "Is it common?" "It's not unusual."
All of this interest in dead grass came my way a few weeks ago as a gift following the Donald Trump hair jokes a few weeks ago:
Our pictures today come from last year's April visit to Bill Scobie's layout in Ottawa.
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