Properly Watering Your Lawn in the Summer

Jul 29, 2017 at 1:00pm

Walt Gracy, KXTV

Properly watering your lawn in the summer | ABC10.com Sacramento city officials are considering making its two-days-per-week watering schedule permanent. For reference, Modesto is on a three-days. Conserving water is a priority because you know we'll be in another drought sooner than later. 

Properly watering your lawn in the summer | ABC10.com Art Ballard, owner of Creekside Landscaping in Sacramento, said he knows about proper watering. Ballard told us that watering your lawn one or two times per week for about 20 to 30 minutes is better than the oft-used schedule of watering for about ten minutes three times per week. 

Multiple experts, like Ballard, say mornings are much better to water the lawn, between 4 a.m. and 10 a.m.

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