People need to quit focusing so much on their stupid lawns.

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80. And healthy soil is a great carbon sink.

A deep layer of topsoil will also hold more water longer than your typical shallow topsoil lawn. Most people don't know how to water properly, either, going strictly for the "all-at-once" method, instead of being smart about it.

I haven't had to water a lawn in ages, but would recommend a volume meter on your tap and to calculate how much you need to use on your acreage to put down half an inch initially, and then another half-inch 90-minutes later. Watering by time alone simply isn't good enough.

This blog-post does a better job of describing good lawncare and soil-care methods than I have so far, including an excellent example that compares watering a lawn to how dry and damp sponges absorb water