How long should it run?

Do not water the lawn too much or too little

Watering the lawn properly requires a certain amount of sensitivity. If the grass plants get too little water, the grass turns brown and dries up. Too much moisture is also harmful. The lawn starts to rot and moss build up as well the growing of mushrooms are favored.

If you have the Lawn sprinkler(€ 27.99 at Amazon *) you should know how long it has to run so that the lawn is watered sufficiently but not too heavily.

After a few hours, the water should have moistened the soil at least 15 centimeters deep.

Little trick to measure the required running time of the sprinkler

Activate the Lawn sprinkler for a quarter of an hour. After a few hours, measure how deep the water has penetrated.

Find out by using the spade prick a piece of the lawn and measure it.

For example, if the water has seeped in eight centimeters, you have to let the sprinkler run for about half an hour and then turn it off.

Saving water through correct setting of the sprinkler

• Pour only when necessary
• Lawn at night, in the morning or in the evening bust
• Set the running time and the amount of water

You can tell whether the lawn needs to be blasted by the slightly bluish discoloration of the grass. There are also kicks on one dry lawn to see longer.

Do not sprinkle the lawn during the day. Too much water evaporates from the sun and wind and increases water consumption. Especially in the early hours of the morning it is particularly calm.

Do not switch the sprinkler on every day, only when necessary. Make sure that the irrigation water penetrates deep enough into the ground. Then you only need to water every fourth day or once a week, depending on the nature of the soil.

Tips & Tricks

Set up your lawn sprinkler so that it actually only waters the lawn and not the sidewalks or even the street. This reduces the running time of the sprinkler and at the same time reduces the Water consumption to reduce.