 Again, it won't turn into a dust bowl unless you've got your kids out there playing soccer or unless you're walking on it a lot or unless you're mowing all the brown areas, which really does crush those blades. You won't have a dust bowl. Now, even in my lawn, which is extremely thin, I just got my walnut tree taken out finally this year, and everything under there was pretty thin. And then with the lack of water this year, I've never watered that part of my lawn.