Phil Smyth

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410 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Sep

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The Claire Byrne Show · Is your grass dead or just taking a nap? · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

The thing about this is that, like I said, there's also a difference to how young and old your lawn or your grass is.

So like when I was even saying there, but stop watering your lawns altogether, like that's for established lawns.

Like a healthy lawn can survive weeks without watering.

In fact, watering it every evening can actually make it weaker because the

How would I put this?

Plants are like teenagers.

If you hand them everything every day, then they'll never learn to fend for themselves.

So if water is available... Well, I mean, I just had to make that, you know, things that... It goes way beyond that age cohort, let's be fair.

Yeah, no, that's fair.

If water is given to them every kind of day near the surface, the roots kind of stay shallow.

But if water becomes scarce, you need those deeper roots into it.

So actually, you know, watering deeply and less often...

is far better than kind of giving a light sprinkle every night again.

So, you know, the hosepipe ban at the minute, you know, people are like, oh, things are going to die out and my lawn's brown or anything else.

It's more of a case of when you do get the opportunity to do it, it's actually watering it deeply and kind of soaking the grass.

Yeah, that kind of thing, like I said, it can survive several weeks to do with that deep soil.

And when you consider that a typical garden hose can use somewhere between 500 to 1,000 liters of treated water every hour.

And the treated water, I suppose, is the bit as well.

That's water that's been collected, cleaned, filtered, disinfected, pumped all the way to your house.

Now, obviously, sometimes we use that to poop in, which boggles my mind so that we spend so much money doing all of this to water and then we do it.

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