EWEB's Weather Station provides Weekly Watering Recommendations based on rainfall and other data, usally from May or June through September. Rainbow will repost this information on our Facebook page and website.

Watering recommendation for: June 12-18, 2026

Water your lawn and flowers: 0.47 inches for the week

If your lawn has deep roots split this into two watering days with 0.24 inches/watering.

If your lawn has shallow roots split this into three watering days with 0.16 inches/watering.

Tip of the week:

Even though we have some hot days ahead, we had some good rainfall recently. Wait to turn on your sprinkler system until the soil dries. Plant roots need air as well as water. Give your plants a chance to breathe and watch the weather forecasts before watering your yard. Turn off the yard sprinkler system during a substantial rain and leave your DIY Green Grass Gauge out in the rain to measure how much free water was applied. Turn your sprinklers back on and empty your DIY Green Grass Gauge when the recommendation indicates additional watering is needed.

Aerate your lawn with a corer or fork so water applied by sprinklers or natural rainfall will go into the soil reservoir of the grass instead of runoff. Lightly fertilize to give lawn some strength and vigor. Apply bark mulch or garden compost to shrub and perennial beds over the top of soaker hoses or other drip watering methods to hold the water in the soil reservoir for the plants to draw upon over time.

Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Watering Gauge

We are no longer providing "Green Grass" watering gauges, but you can always make one yourself. Watch a short video about making a DIY Green Grass Gauge here, then grab a tuna can and print out some test strips to get started!

Testing Strips