The Home Ownership Thread

[double00]

I don't feel great about being the patron saint of water wastage.

you fixed it tho , it's just irrigation ( or pool or whatevs ) fuckery

 

[ellsbebc]

I think most of you guys have cool season turf so can understand how the drought has been tough on many. If you have the right cultural practices, it should still look decent — just not optimal. Is SoCal mostly cool season, too?

We received only 1.2” rain across 60-day span with daily temps 95F+ earlier this summer. Thankfully our warm season turf tolerated it well and mine still looked better than most despite no irrigation.

This was toward the tail end of that 60-day stretch:

 

[PhilKenSebben]

I think most of you guys have cool season turf so can understand how the drought has been tough on many. If you have the right cultural practices, it should still look decent — just not optimal. Is SoCal mostly cool season, too?

We received only 1.2” rain across 60-day span with daily temps 95F+ earlier this summer. Thankfully our warm season turf tolerated it well and mine still looked better than most despite no irrigation.

This was toward the tail end of that 60-day stretch:

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3/10 for set back: being able to see the road and all, but I am genuinely curious, why are the streets brown like that? What material are they made of?

 

[RedLantern]

concrete looks like that in some parts of the country

 

[ellsbebc]

3/10 for set back: being able to see the road and all, but I am genuinely curious, why are the streets brown like that? What material are they made of?

Red clay soil in my part of flyover country, which is used as the asphalt aggregate.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

Lawns are an ecological disaster, period. We've been more or less gradually getting rid of ours since we moved here, replacing them with woodland, orchard and short-grass prairie. Here's a very quick over-the-shoulder shot, taken with my laptop, of the last...

Short-grass prairie ain't actually that short!

 

[PhilKenSebben]

concrete looks like that in some parts of the country

Red clay soil in my part of flyover country, which is used as the asphalt aggregate.

 

[RedLantern]

To not know indicates a blessed coastal existence.

 

[PhilKenSebben]

To not know indicates a blessed coastal existence.

I live in Fly over country as well, just not the red concrete area.

I fact, if I wanted my concrete to look that way, I would have to pay substantially extra for coloring

 

[sugarbutch]

Apparently San Francisco's water company now sends you a text alert when you overconsume water. My friend was alerted this week to a leaking sprinkler fitting (garden, not lawn).

 

[double00]

Apparently San Francisco's water company now sends you a text alert when you overconsume water. My friend was alerted this week to a leaking sprinkler fitting (garden, not lawn).

acquaintance got this locally too , for a running toilet

 

[NorCal]

I think most of you guys have cool season turf so can understand how the drought has been tough on many. If you have the right cultural practices, it should still look decent — just not optimal. Is SoCal mostly cool season, too?

We received only 1.2” rain across 60-day span with daily temps 95F+ earlier this summer. Thankfully our warm season turf tolerated it well and mine still looked better than most despite no irrigation.

This was toward the tail end of that 60-day stretch:

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A lot of places in Cali get basically no rain for months. Is not a matter of switching grass.
I embrace the natural meadow and plant drought tolerant plants.

 

[jcman311]

Buffalograss is the future. Only issue I see so far is sowing. But once it takes it requires literally no water and no mowing and stays green in 95+ temps and is rhizomatic and (sorry for all the ands) can survive cold winters.

 

[venividivicibj]

@Omega Male

 

[Omega Male]

Looks ... flammable?