Winterize Your Lawn by Watering
Posted by Kathy Wilder on Mon, Aug 30, 2010
How can we think about winter when it’s 90+ degrees outside? Because we know that what you do now can affect how your lawn looks next spring when it emerges from a freezing winter. And we just want to give you a friendly reminder about that.
Water, water, water! Many people have kind of given up on 
watering this year. It’s so hot, and everything’s all burned up, and what’s the point? Winter's right around the corner!
But the fact that it’s going to be winter soon is the point here. Dry grass and dry roots, thinning grass, drought stressed turf, and damaged turf (like from army worms in Memphis this year, leaf hoppers in Huntsville, or diseases like brown patch in Little Rock) are much more likely to sustain winterkill than healthy, irrigated turf. Watering now will help your lawn recover and become stronger going into winter.
Your lawn needs water year round. When the cold temperatures and the drying winds come, your lawn is in peril if it’s dry to begin with. Watering now will help insure that your lawn will green up early and nicely in the spring. Be prepared! Read our page on winterkill and winter damage to bermuda.
Winterkill in bermuda grass