EDIT: if you say just “ water” without also stating other grass treatments, I’m blocking you
OneGayPigeon
Grasses are either warm or cool season growers, yours is likely a cool season species that’s retiring from peak showiness for the year.
What sections of grass are you actually using and benefitting from putting work into keeping it turf grass? Trying to force a plant, especially one so fussy and needy as turf, to flourish year round where it doesn’t want to will always be a time and money sink.
You could easily get rid of the front half dead parkway and replace it with drought tolerant showy species; I’m in the same Great Lakes area as you and I really love my purple poppy mallow, little bluestem, various phloxes, wild rue, aromatic asters, and penstemon for hellstrips (among many others) for along sidewalks. No need to water or fertilize any of them.
Remaining turf could be supplemented by additional species of grass, with violets and yarrow (both drought tolerant), and clover (not drought tolerant but won’t stop growing partway through the year). A diverse lawn will let the various species fill in for each other during their stronger and weaker seasons and conditions.
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Water
EDIT: if you say just “ water” without also stating other grass treatments, I’m blocking you
Grasses are either warm or cool season growers, yours is likely a cool season species that’s retiring from peak showiness for the year.
What sections of grass are you actually using and benefitting from putting work into keeping it turf grass? Trying to force a plant, especially one so fussy and needy as turf, to flourish year round where it doesn’t want to will always be a time and money sink.
You could easily get rid of the front half dead parkway and replace it with drought tolerant showy species; I’m in the same Great Lakes area as you and I really love my purple poppy mallow, little bluestem, various phloxes, wild rue, aromatic asters, and penstemon for hellstrips (among many others) for along sidewalks. No need to water or fertilize any of them.
Remaining turf could be supplemented by additional species of grass, with violets and yarrow (both drought tolerant), and clover (not drought tolerant but won’t stop growing partway through the year). A diverse lawn will let the various species fill in for each other during their stronger and weaker seasons and conditions.