How Do You Water Your Yard?

Well I live in England, where it rains pretty much every day of the year - so it really isn't an issue for me. The skies just open and do it naturally:-)) But if we ever do have a dry spell of a few days in Summer, then I will get a watering can for the flowers, the patio tubs, and the hanging baskets, and a hosepipe on the lawn. As I say though - English weather is notorious for rain - so we don't really come across this problem much!!!

water's way too expensive here to have sprinklers going..my lawn usually doesn't need it,i couldn't kill that grass if i tried.but i do water the ornamental hedges and plants with the hose if they look like they're wilting at all.my hydrangea seems particularily subseptible to high heat.

I have not really been one to water the yard. Whatever rain we gets suffices. We have had tons of rain this year. I do put a sprinkler in my garden, and we run it once or twice in a week or two. I carry water to houseplants if I cannot get to them with hoses.

We dont need to water our lawn at the moment, its winter here and it rain quite often, In the summer also we get a lot of coastal showers too..We do have water restrictions in parts of the country and cannot water at all..I am on tank water so I wouldnt be able too.

I usually water my front yard by hand. It's so small that using the sprinkler is a waste of time because I can't turn the water up very high or I end up watering the neighbor's yard too. Now the back yard is a different story. It's huge, so I put the sprinklers to use.

Living on a farm i tend not to water my lawn and dandelions actually most of it is dandelions or weeds...it takes six hours to mow with a push mower and I'm quite happy if it grows slow! The last couple years it seems to rain most of the summer so i dont have to water it. Just had to mow it lots! In the city with a "city" lawn i used to turn sprinklers on every once in a while for it to stay green.

This is a good question, as all watering of our garedn is banned here. last summer we had level three restrctions. This meant we could only use a sprinkler after certain hours, and only on an odd or even night. Sprinklers were restricted from between 8.00pm & 5.00am. We could only use hoses after 5.00pm. Now, we are on level four or five restrcitiomns. They have banned all watering, except with a watering can. This is very difficult with my big front yard.

We don't water our yard, except for dumping out the baby pool. It's not worth it to us to water our lawn. I'm not really concerned about how our yard looks as far as the color of the grass. It just seems to be a waste of water to keep watering everyday. We let the rain take care of most of it. We do dump the baby pool in a different place everytime, but that's the closest we come to watering.

I don't water my yard. God does it for me with rain:)

We have to carry buckets of water and a deeper to water our garden. It's very hard to do it but it's a good exercise especially us employed. We do it thrice a week. For the previous two weeks we did not watered it manually because it rains and it's really a great help from the Lord.

ha ha... any plants that comes my way, if need watering, will always die at my hands. I always forget to water them. In fact, the only plants I have are those that can survive in a vase full of water. I have started to use those gel beads and they are the longest lasting flowers I have had so far. Sad. I dun have the green thumb, but I love flowers. My mum has a mini garden outside her flat and she has a bunch of really beautiful flowers.

Hi. During summertime the lawn and gardens to tend to get dry and start to look brown, we usually use our hose to water everything... Otherwise It could rain, that way everything everywhere gets watered...

I use a hose to water my yard and i do it every other day.

I don't. I live in a development in the foothills of some mountains that is supposed to be kept natural. My big problem is that whenever we get rain the weeds and wild grassses grow very fast as happens in high desert country and need to be gotten rid of to avoid the hazard of fire when they dry out. I came very close to a fire getting to my house the first summer I lived in it. Fortunately the damage was limited to a fence and some boards on a patio roof and discoloration of some stucco.

We dont water our yard..theres just too much of it for watering to NOT cost us an arm and a leg ya know...so we dont bother...To water my veggie garden though I just use the hose...

We don’t water the yard- It gets watered by the rain- We do water the garden and all the flower beds and boxes- We do this with a watering can filled by the outside hose. We have 6+ acres of yard- I think we would run out of water!

Hi Sacmom, on a normal year I have a sprinkler attached to a hose. This year with all the long hours I've been working, I've kind of just let the yard go. The rain has kept it pretty well watered anyway. I have been mowwing it about once a month when it really starts to look bad. Its starting to dry out now but summers almost over anyway so I figure that I saved quite a bit on the water bill. Take care, Terry

I usually just use buckets of water that have been collected around the house. These come from either washing dishes and plates (only if they have been watered and no washing shampoo have been used) as well as whenever I need to clean the water in the fish tank. They go straight into the yard.

Where I live now you would never see anyone watering their grass. No sprinklers or hoses on it. It rain enough the grass is always fine. But in toronto I used to see lots of sprinklers watering the grass. Less rain there than Nova Scotia I think.

i always water my yard by using hoses but now since its rainy season i don't mind watering anymore our yard.