Are you sick of working so hard on your lawn care, only for it to start to dry up as soon as the sun rises in the morning? Water restrictions are common in hot climate areas, so they work against you when you try to keep your lawn alive during the heat. To cut down on the amount of water you need for your lawn, you might want to consider how you are cutting it.

You should be cutting your grass so that it’s at least three inches tall. Now, if you love to work in your yard, this won’t sound too bad for you. If you don’t enjoy mowing the lawn, you may think, No way! I’ll be cutting it every two days.

Before you turn your head to this tip, understand the concept of cutting your grass to three inches. Let’s start with an analogy:

If you are cleaning something and have wet rags, what happens if you lay the rags out side by side? They dry quickly, right? Well, what if you piled them all up on top of each other? The ones on top would dry while the bottom would stay wet, right?

The same goes for your grass. If you keep it longer, the roots will remain moist longer because it’s shaded by the longer blades so the drying sun can’t zap the moisture from them. That means you can water your grass less often and for less time!

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