dottientx

My bit of Texas prarie (?) is either brown or gone. Even the weed are mostly brown. I'm southwest of Dallas/Fort Worth and we haven't had rain in my area for months and have had triple digit temps for around 30 days.

nclauri

Our yard is turning brown due to lack of rain and the county has asked people to conserve water ie. no water yards, washing cars, etc.

katiebear1

Well it is not too bad yet. We have still been getting a good rain every week or 10 days. But yeah it will get brown. Usually AUG. and Sept. are really dry but we usually start getting our rainy season mid Oct. or so. Water is expensive here so I don't water the lawn. It gets awful looking but it always comes back in the spring green and thick as ever.

Mariposa

Mine is green. Feel blessed!

supergma

Have had more than a month of 100 degrees and above and no rain. Brown lawns everywhere; even people with irrigation systems are having problems with dry spots.

cherrio

it is a pale green turning tan. but I don't have to mow straw colored grass so for a month I'll deal with it

ging10ging

Ours is turning green again since it started raining again. It's expensive here in Fl to use city water you can water 1 time a week during certain hrs. has to be before 10am and after 6 or 8 pm I forgot since we just usually water the plants by hand. It's brown part of the winter into the summer depending on the rain we get. Sue

Crazy Quiltin Robin

well where I live it has been over 100* for over 60 days .....
the heat is horriable and no rain helps out the only things we are watering are our trees ......... had to let the rest go cause of shortages in the water dept ....... so yep we have a real brown yard

Grambi

Don't have a lawn--the ranch grows right up to our front and back doors. After 30 years of living in homes where we did all of the work of maintaining a yard, I decided I never wanted to mow, mulch, fertilize, water, prune or worry about a lawn again. I now live in our retirement home on a 200 acre ranch. We are still in an "exceptional" drought (the worst there is) and it just burns me up to drive by homes where water is obviously wasted with watering a lawn. The attitude of many is "it's my water, I paid for the well and I will use it like I want". What they don't realize (out here in the country) is that their well may be drawing from the same vein of water that other people are getting water from. So many ranchers have been losing their wells and having to pay to have them drilled deeper. Our well is almost dry and we had to have the livestock removed from the ranch. Fortunately we have invested in a rainwater harvesting system and have a 20,000 gal tank which right now contains about 17,000 gal of water. We can collect about 2400 gal of water with each inch of rain. I conserve like a maniac. My showers consist of getting wet, turning off water and soaping up then turning the water back on for a quick rinse. Haven't mopped the floor in weeks. Only wash laundry when I can fill the washer, etc, etc, etc. I firmly believe that water will be a defining issue of this century and that people aren't going to value it for what it is worth until they are either no longer getting it so cheaply, or they run out.

My apologies for preaching from my soapbox but this is an issue that I am passionate about. Thank you for reading and please appreciate every drop of water that comes out of your faucets!

Carron

Ours is a blend of light brown, pale green and straw in some places.
Our neighbor has the greenest lawn ever, brillant, absolutely beautiful...because he has Astro Turf...
Tha might be the way to go. No matinance, no watering and always perfect.

On second thought I prefer the real stuff and the green will return in the cooler weather.