11/01/23 at 8:00 a.m.   

Rainfall* over the past 7 days:   Around 0.5 inches.  Over the past 30 days, rainfall has been around 4 inches. 

Established lawns:  Do not need watering.  

Recently sodded lawns (within the last 4 weeks):  Resume your watering schedule on 11/5/23 or when the lawn dries out.  Be careful not to overwater, so allow the ground to dry out if it squishes when walked upon. 

Established perennial beds:  Do not need watering.  

Recently installed perennial beds (within last 12 weeks):  Provide one good soaking per week (only).  First, without green leaves on the plants, they will draw moisture out of the ground at a much slower rate.  Second, even as the plants go dormant, their roots continue to grow and require adequate moisture.  

Established trees & shrubs:   Do not need watering.     

Recently installed trees & shrubs (within last 12 weeks):  Provide one good deep watering per week (only).  Avoid short watering periods which only provides a shallow watering of just the ground surface.  Even as the plants go dormant, their roots continue to grow and require moisture–especially evergreens to get through winter. 

Established rain gardens: Do not need watering.

Recently installed rain gardens (within the last 8 weeks):  Resume your watering schedule when the ground surface dries up from any recent precipitation.  

*Rain data from NOAA / NWS. All measurements approximate to the digrightin service area (Oak Park [N] to Burr Ridge [S] and Riverside [E] to Downers Grove [W]). Your actual rainfall amount may be different.  Advice DOES NOT consider weather forecasts.  Watering instructions are provided to customers by digrightin.