My Patch of Lawn that Ignored a Drought

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This one started to give me a good baseline of the Field of Effect and the speed with which it could change the relative health of a field of plants

This story is long, so I will keep each entry short and put a bunch of photos up to see firsthand the progress

At the bottom of the display I have put 3 separate videos walking through my yard throughout this summer to give you a global feel for what drought does and what my device can do to push it back a bit

Photo taken June 13, 2020

This is the back wall of my garage.  Due to not loving extreme cold while working with my device I only moved it into my garage, and more specifically relatively close to the air conditioner right inside that wall

We had our last measurable rain for this specific event May 27th, 2020.  In the following weeks, short of there being no rain, we had record high temperatures.  Full weeks into the 90s in early June

While I certainly don't blame them, it didn't stop the fact all lawns in southern Iowa just flat died

Photo taken June 15, 2020

On about June 12, 2020 I noticed the only really green and healthy patch in my yard

And it was exactly through the wall where I had been running my device

Keep in mind, I do not water my lawn, whatever happens is all up to nature

Moreover,  I have heard repeatedly the counterargument that it is just the shade that created this effect

Fair enough, but as you will see in the videos below the shade relief around my house only ever extends like 18 inches, and the grass never really grows fast

This green patch expanded radically, quickly and grew so fast I was forced to mow weekly to keep a good baseline on growth

Photo taken June 15, 2020

Again, please keep in mind, no rain, none.  And scorching temperatures

These facts are easily verified by local airport weather watcher databases around Des Moines.  We are within about 3 miles of one of them

June 12th is important to this, it was the day I noticed the green patch, and that day I began running my device 2 hours daily, just to see if the lawn would respond more

And with no rain and record heat, the green patch through the wall of my garage kept growing, and growing

Photo taken June 23, 2020

You are getting basically the same perspective daily, I tried to get the photos with roughly the same light

This is the north face of the house, during this time the sun is as far north as it gets, giving no shade to this part of the lawn

In 5 years of taking care of this lawn this is a unique event

Generally it gets hot and dry, I mow in early June and don't need to mow again until mid August, like pretty much everyone else around here

Photo taken June 25, 2020

At this point I am going to start expanding times between photos

It gets to and sort of retains a healthy strong patch of green, fast growing grass

It reached this point in 18 days.  I have mowed twice since June 12th, and just this patch.  Everything else was dead and brown, as I offer in the videos below

The device fought back against a drought Iowa summer 12 feet, in 18 days

Photo taken June 30, 2020

A detente has been reached between my device and the drought

Still demands more mowing, the patch extends about 12 feet from the operational device

36 days in to daily operation, the lawn acts like a healthy normal patch.  Ignoring extreme miserable weather conditions for living plants

This is actually very good weather for, you know, dead plants

Photo taken July 18, 2020

A few weeks further on

We have received some rain through the summer, but ask anyone growing a lawn or talk to any Iowa farmer this summer has been at best hostile to living, healthy gardens, crops, and lawns

Photo taken August 5, 2020

Here is the final photo for the 2020 miserable lawn gauntlet run

This is 75 days after daily running of my device

The patch of lawn reached a stable, healthy homeostasis and kept it regardless of environmental conditions through what every meteorologist and agronomist would agree was a vicious summer for anything growing outside, and in dirt

Photo taken August 26, 2020

Video taken June 15, 2020

19 days since last rain with record heat included in the festivities

Video taken June 25, 2020

As you can see the rest of the lawn is totally scorched, dead brown from the heat and extreme drought conditions

Yet inside the Field my Device creates it is healthy, green, and lush

Video taken August 5, 2020 

A couple months into the experiment, and Iowa drought summer

The rest of the lawn still dead, get near my Device and I am still mowing weekly