Does grass need watering even during winter?

Because our back garden grass seems growing even during this winter. Temperature has been mild for December.

 

No.

 

Autumn and winter , we have good rainfall and low temperatures. So the lawns will never actually dry out . As you have noted grass does grow through winter if the temp is above approx 4°c.

 

No hedgefog
There is enough moisture around anyway to satisfy grass needs now. Keep cutting it though if it is long and soil is dry.
Grass here is still growing well and mowing is continuing

 

Grass grows all year round. but as has been said there's enough rain and moisture in the air to sustain it.
On our golf course, they don't stop mowing. the greens are cut every week and some fairways and the adjacent rough get the same treatment, but not the same fairway every week. Our head green keeper put some feed on the tees last week. because he knows the grass will respond, even at this time of the year.

 

Thank you for great info and advice everyone.

I did wonder about it, because grass is growing quite well here, and when I went out drive to countryside, the field was green with healthy looking grass.

Yes, I did give some feeds to our grass too, and it seems really responding well.
But actually after the feed, I put the water sprinkler on for an hour or two, so the nutrients will wash down to their root system, instead just sitting on the ground.

Great to know no need water until perhaps March?

 

I am slightly puzzled re your desire to water grass. I believe you live in Edinburgh? I lived there for 9 years. Number of times I watered the grass 0. I now live in Fife and have a huge garden of nearly 2 acres and another 6 odd acres of grazing. Lived here 17 years. Number of times I watered a small section of the grass in the garden , once, this summer,but only when it became desperate in late July after a scorching few months. Number of times the grazing was watered 0. Is the grass in the garden and paddocks currently green? yes.
Photo is of my some of my grass in October this year having had no watering in 17 years. it is a lot greener in reality.

 

My lawns been wet for the last 6 weeks at least.

 

I seem to remember grass grows when the temperature is above 5°C. As for watering a lawn never done it; mind you I've never fed one either. The grass grows and it gets cut about once a month between April and October. Generates about a dumpy bag full of clippings each time. Lots of interesting insects, plants, mosses and fungi living in it though.

 

That’s how we do it too @NigelJ .

 

Regular watering in summer and twice a week mowing for me ......love my lawns

 

Nice garden and great looking lawn.

We are not exactly in Edinburgh, but outside the city. I have not watered grass either. In fact, I have not done much gardening last 3-4 years due to other project. I have been away a lot, and the garden had been neglected. The grass was in terrible state.

It is only this late summer, things got quiet, and I was able to work on the garden.

I did lot of work on the grass to bring back to life raking moss away weeding mowing a lot, and watering. And now it is a lot better looking.

Last week, I gave feed to the grass, and then watered for an hour. As I explained, the point was to wash the nutrient down the soil and deliver it to the grass root.

And grass looks even happier and greener, and it is growing, so was wondering if anyone waters their grass

 

If it needs watering. I've these.

 

I got rid of my lawn years ago, soon as the girls left home. They are now in their early fifties. I agree that a well kept lawn really sets of a garden. At the same time, the lawn can become your master. Even in really dry summers, the grass turning yellow ans straw-like and the soil cracking open can have beneficial results.
A newly laid lawn perhaps require a watering, but in the natural world. Grass will grow almost anywhere.