“We’re just about out of business,” said Bob Scoggins, owner of Scoggins Landscaping and Nursery in Kings Mountain. “We’re just making payroll and making expenses.”

The dry weather also distresses those who like a lush, green lawn in the summer months.

Watering the lawn only works to an extent, Scoggins said.

“From sprinklers, most of the water just evaporates,” Scoggins said. “It doesn’t really do any good.”

Drip irrigation systems are ideal since they don’t waste water, he said.

“Though they don’t look it?EUR??,,????'???healthy lawns can survive over a month without water and green back up when?EUR??,,????'???showers return,” horticulture agent Mark Blevins wrote via e-mail.

Irrigation can help, Blevins said, if done carefully.

“Lawns?EUR??,,????'???are healthy with only 1 inch of water per week through the growing season,” Blevins wrote.

Watering may not be a good idea with the chance of rain slim on the horizon, Blevins warns.

“Keep in mind that if you irrigate your fescue now, it will come out of dormancy,” Blevins wrote. “Starting and stopping is worse for the lawn than if you never started irrigating in the first place.”

One way to help keep lawns healthy is by keeping the grass a little higher, Blevins wrote.