Improving Your Lawn's Drought Tolerance

The key to improving your Florida lawn's drought tolerance is growing a good-quality lawn that will survive an extended dry spell with little or no watering on your part.

UF/IFAS Sites

• Improving Your Lawn's Drought Tolerance

UF/IFAS Publications

• Drought Conditioning Your Lawn (PDF)
• Drought Conditioning Your Tampa Bay Area Lawn (PDF)
• Managing Your Florida Lawn Under Drought Conditions
• Preparing Your Lawn for Drought (PDF)
• Recommendations for a Drought Resistant Florida (PDF)
• Resolve to Be Water Wise in 2008 (PDF)

Also on Gardening in a Minute

• Conserving Water
• FYN Principle #2: Water Efficiently
• Listening to Your Lawn
• Watering the Lawn

Other Sites

• It's Easy to Drought-Proof Your Lawn--The Lawn Institute
• Methods for Creating a Drought Tolerant Lawn--Grand Junction, Colorado Extension (PDF)
• Preparing Your Lawn for a Potential Drought--Purdue University Turfgrass Program