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It is a wrong notion to use the most amount of water on a lawn to produce the best of results.  Most seasoned gardeners would insist on using the optimum amount of water on a lawn no matter the location of the garden or the purpose of maintaining a lawn.  It must be pointed out that the lawn serves a number of purposes and it is really up to the person having the lawn done to decide on the use that the space would be put to use.  

The Question of the Type of Grass to Use

For the better of people, they know just a single type of grass and that is lawn grass.  The better informed of folks would realize that the “lawn grass”, does consist of some eight varieties of grass or species of grass.  The actual type of grass in use would depend on the requirement of the lawn as well as the look or presentation that the lawn needs to provide.  

With each different kinds of grass, the amount of water that a square foot needs is different.  That would mean that the water needs of the lawn would differ with the differing use of the grass species to lay the lawn.  There are those types of grass that are thirstier, so to speak, as compared to others.  If it is a small area that is being covered in a lawn, it really would not make much of a difference.  But larger lawns would certainly strain the landlord if the correct choice of the grass to form the lawn is not made.  

The Availability of Water at the Location

As most people would be aware of, not all places have the same ease of access to clean water and this would get to play an important role in deciding the type of grass to be used in a lawn and even the area of lawn to be grown.  Naturally is a place that is hard pressed to provide sufficient water the most logical thing would be to have a lawn that is as small in area as would be possible.  From being just the most logical thing to do, it would be the most economical practice as well.  

Another alternative to use is things like drip irrigation and such advanced methods of cultivation in setting lawns as well.  No doubt, there is an initial expense involved but the long term cost savings would tend to pay for the system.  It is thus a question of making the high initial investment in the system.  

The Type of Premise to be Considered

Often with places of work, the owners of buildings and spaces would be freer to spend a good sum to do up the lawns as compared to the places of residences.  This could be due to the fact that with most business the lawn can be considered to be a business expense while in most homes it is an out of the pocket expense.  This factor does play an important role in deciding the final outcome of the lawn at the premises.  

A lot of people would consider using organic techniques in lawn care as being rather farfetched and would really question the need for such practices in reality.  It might seem to be a effect of the commercial interests that have got to dominate the area of gardening to insist on using organic methods to laying and more than that, in the maintenance of lawns.  But a closer look at the organic options available to those that what to make use of such practices would bring out the practical benefits that would accrue to the gardener going organic at most times.  

Less of Chemicals are Friendlier

The typical lawns are used for a lot of entertainment purposes like the weekend BBQ, or the children’s birthday bash and the likes.  It must be said of the lawn that is a convenient place to gather around no matter the season.  In the tropical climates, the lawn could be where most families gather during the weekends and on any similar occasions.  

Use of chemicals in the lawn comes as the typical chemical fertilizer used on most occasions.  The typical lawn does need a good amount of chemical fortifiers and this can be seen to be the most practical way of providing for the needs of a lawn too.  But with most chemicals used, there tends to be residues to the chemical compounds no matter how economical the application happens to be.  

With the typical chemical residue on the lawn, it is the children and the young ones that are the most affected.  Since in a number of cases the skins of these young children would not have attained the full thickness needed to act as a barrier to the chemical residues would mean that the young ones are affected in some adverse manner or other.  

The Quality Issues with the Soil

People that have had prior experience with maintaining lawns using the chemical agents would testify to the fact that practically nothing else can be grown in the area that a lawn was grown for some years afterwards.  This is because the indiscriminate use of chemical agents to help maintain the lawns would cause the deterioration of soil and long after the lawn has been discontinued, the soil still remains unsuitable for use in any manner.  

The organic practices do not cause such an occurrence and is a lot friendlier too as compared to the use of chemical agents.  That there is bound to be an increased efforts as well as costs associated with organic gardening practices, but they do preserve the quality of soil at all times.  It is the more sustainable form of cultivating spaces.  

The Long Term View to Gardening

When a long term view is being considered to keeping lawns, it is always the best to rely on organic methods to the laying and maintaining of such spaces.  The long term benefits will no doubt be paying when the cost incurred in returning the area in use to the previous state is considered.