It has been weeks and weeks since we’ve had a drop of rain. Our grass is mostly weeds so I’ve only been watering to try to keep the fruit trees alive and what’s left of the garden . . mostly sweet potatoes and okra. The grass is dry and crunchy and the dogs are afraid of stickers so they hate going out. My friend calls the grass “potato chip grass” because it sounds the same as walking across a bunch of potato chips – crunch, crunch.
Looking at the weather forecast doesn’t give me much hope for rain but this is summertime in central Texas and this is what we get.
Yesterday I decided to go ahead and water the grass a bit just to try to keep it all from dying.
Sprinkler
I love this tractor sprinkler. It will go across the width of the front yard. If I get it going just about daylight, it’s done before the sun gets too hot to be watering. Again late in the evening I can put it out and it’s covered the width of the yard by bed time.
What’s weird about the grass/weeds we have is that they can look totally dead . . beyond hope and when I add a little water, within hours everything is green again. Next year instead of spending so much time on my garden, maybe I’ll spend a little time working on the grass in the front yard. Probably not! The more I water it, the more Vince has to cut it and the pay off isn’t worth the extra effort probably. If I want green grass, I probably should be living somewhere that gets an occasional rain between May and October . . and that’s NOT here! 🙁
pattilynn9 says
Rain in central Tx can be either feast or famine. Your fruit trees look good!
Rebecca in SoCal says
Not that you would, but…don’t come here, either!
Last night, the freshly-cleaned fan in the window sounded a little different, and I pretended it was a steady rainfall.
Sharon Downey says
Our area of Western Kentucky had over 26 inches of rain in July. Which is unusual for us and August seems to be falling in the same pattern. We wish it would let up a bit so we could mow every 10 to 12 days instead of every week. Wish we could send you some of ours. Doesn’t seem fair. Our farmers are hurting because of two much rain on the crops and it’s causing diseases.
Joyce says
This is the second summer in a row (in Missouri) that we really have not had a dry July and August (so far). I definitely don’t want drought conditions, but I wouldn’t mind if it would slack off just enough that the yard didn’t have to be mowed every single week. (I have someone who mows for me and it gets expensive!) I’ve really only had to water the garden a couple of times this whole summer though, so that’s a good thing.
Vicky says
Well, we just had a storm blow over, typical Louisiana. I’ll send some water to you, if you want it!
katie z. says
We finally had rain last night, so I’m reveling in the wet but dread the humidity that will return tomorrow.
Libby in TN says
Or you could just paint it green like a neighbor of ours did in Kansas when the Bermuda went brown in winter.