Thursday, July 23, 2015

New Lawn in July?!! In SoCal?!!

Can you say "out of touch"?

New sod being put in a Northwest Pasadena residence being reno'd-to-flip
My jaw literally dropped this morning when I saw pallets after pallets of sod being delivered to a neighboring house currently being reno'd-to-flip.

It's not that I'm anti-lawn, but lawns are pretty big water wasters, not to mention the toxic-cocktail-upkeep they require to look nice. But this is Southern California in the middle of its worst drought in history?!! Give me a break!

Putting in a brand new lawn is hard enough to justify in this area, but putting one in on July 23?!! It's not only carelessness, it's borderline insanity. This is the time of year where the sun is at its hottest and where our average temperatures are at some of their highest (around 90ºF/32ºc). And they will continue to climb all the way through the end of August (to almost 92ºF/33ºc) and stay very high well into September. That's VERY HOT weather to be putting in new sod...

How they will be able to water it without breaking the city's ordinance will be interesting to see because the house is not occupied and the only permissible form of watering is by hand... Sprinklers can only be used twice a week and only either on Tuesday or Saturday... with no runoff...