Understand Dry Period Importance

folks it's a hot hot summertime we're watering grass we're going to talk to you about how to save your pastures and about why the dry times are super important for your farm for your pastures for your garden and for your lawn all right Farm fans welcome back to the Stony Ridge Farm Channel be sure you're subscribed you're going to miss out on something we're out here on 150 acre first generation farm and I'm here to talk to you about the dry times this is the most worrisome time of year for anybody who is farming or ranching or growing a garden or trying to keep a green lawn this is the most horrible time of the year it is hot it is mid to late June all the way through July and we're here in North Carolina and we always have a hot spill a hot spell like we're having right now where temperatures are between 85 and 100° fah the grass is getting dry the grass is getting crunchy the grass looks like it's gone into sence meaning that it's not growing but what it's doing down below ground is something that's super important and this is why dry weather is super important for your forage or for your lawn and or your garden what happens is the top layer of soil in other words probably the top five to 6 Ines and you guys have all seen this when you look out across Barron land and this is newly sewn land right here but you look out across bar land or land with grass and you see cracks in the soil and those cracks can be anywhere from 2 3 in wide to just little tiny cracks in the soil what that's doing is telling you the soil surface is dry but deep down in the soil it's not dry so what we're trying to accomplish in the summertime in the summer heat in which your grass and forage and pastures are trying to accomplish is setting Down Deeper Roots which is helping to break that hard pan and let me explain that to you your grass in the springtime on any