Phil Smyth

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503 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard today

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

So if you've been looking out thinking, Jesus, I've killed the garden.

Don't worry.

Your lawn is basically saying, relax, lads.

I'll be grand when it rains.

Yeah, this is, this is all about survival.

Like green leaves are fantastic at making food through photosynthesis, which some people might've heard of, which is kind of photo with light and then synthesis in terms of synthesizing that into energy.

Um, but what they're also the place leaves are where most of the water escapes from the plant.

So when soil dries, dries out, the grass is sacrifices those leaves to protect the more important bits under ground.

So like.

Like a hedgehog that kind of curls up into a ball or a tortoise that hides in its shell, this is reducing exposure until conditions improve.

So as soon as then we get a decent spread of rain, which, let's be honest, in Ireland isn't necessarily too far away, although lately it has been, then it'll be back out.

So, you know, watering our lawns is something, but it's potentially something that we could consider stopping actually at the moment, if that makes sense.

Yeah, so parts will dry off and fall away and then there'll be new shoots that will come from the established.

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.

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