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Speaker 1: I am Dean Sharp, the house Whisperer, custom home builder,
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Speaker 1: tell you what we're doing today. We're all over the place.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit of this, a bit of that,
Speaker 1: and most importantly your calls. I am so so in
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Speaker 1: We've been away for a couple of weeks. We've been off. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about our trip in just a bit,
Speaker 1: uh snippets of it at least. Uh. But we're back.
Speaker 1: We're rested.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: It's October. The holidays are laid out in front of us.
Speaker 1: The scorching heat seems to have gone away now and
Speaker 1: hopefully it won't come back. But we've got some beautiful
Speaker 1: weather here in southern California right now. The Dodger's one line.
Speaker 1: There's so many things to smile about this morning, and
Speaker 1: mostly though I would love to talk to you, so
Speaker 1: let me give you the number right now, and then
Speaker 1: I'll move on to other things. Eight three three two
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Speaker 1: The phone lines are open. He's ready to take your call.
Speaker 1: He'll tell you everything you need to know. Poppy into
Speaker 1: the queue and then we'll put our heads together. We'll
Speaker 1: figure out what's going on with your home. No worries,
Speaker 1: no worries, all right. And if we do this all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring some light into the morning. Even though
Speaker 1: these these are my favorite mornings, are they not. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're a morning person, obviously. Here you are, here, you are,
Speaker 1: we're talking, you and me together, hanging out. How awesome
Speaker 1: is it to be a morning person? To be up
Speaker 1: in the morning before the sun. I just love this
Speaker 1: time of year when the sun gets a little lazy
Speaker 1: and and we actually, you know, beat him up, well
Speaker 1: I don't, you know, not like a salt, but get
Speaker 1: up before the sun. And I just love this time
Speaker 1: of year. What can I tell you the team is
Speaker 1: here for you. Sam is on the board. Good morning, Sam,
Speaker 1: Good morning Dane. How you doing. I am great, actually
Speaker 1: and rested. I'm we kind of you know, we got
Speaker 1: back on last weekend late last weekend, and so I
Speaker 1: took this week of work to just kind of roll,
Speaker 1: you know how you kind of ran been and you're
Speaker 1: hoping that you don't come up against everything crazy on
Speaker 1: day one, and we didn't, and so it was a
Speaker 1: really nice ramp up as far as design work and
Speaker 1: construction work and radio work. And I'm just I'm in
Speaker 1: a good place. I'm really happy to hear that sounds
Speaker 1: like you got your feet under you this morning. I do,
Speaker 1: I do, which is rare, right. No, Hey, I'm happy
Speaker 1: for you. I wish I could be there right now. Uh.
Speaker 1: Producer Richie is standing by to take your calls. He's
Speaker 1: nowhere near a microphone, but he's doing his work like
Speaker 1: he always does every week, and we appreciate him. Jackie
Speaker 1: Ray is at the news desk. Good morning, Jackie, Good morning.
Speaker 1: How are you. I am great? Did you hear I'm great?
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited for you. You're like, I'm really excited
Speaker 1: for you rubbing it in. We've been here the whole time, yep,
Speaker 1: all down.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we went to uh we went to the great
Speaker 1: state of Vermont. I have a new best friend Vermont.
Speaker 3: Uh uh.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I won't bore you with all that right now,
Speaker 1: but glad you're here as always, and here we go.
Speaker 1: Sitting across the table from me normally would be Tina
Speaker 1: guess who has not completely ramped up from vacation yet.
Speaker 1: I love being able to spoke fun at her in
Speaker 1: the morning because she is such a morning person as well.
Speaker 1: But currently she's nowhere to be seen. But let me look.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there he is, Sammy the Beagle, sitting across
Speaker 1: the table from me, and he has very little to say.
Speaker 1: I can tell just by the look on his face
Speaker 1: that he's like, move on, dad, move on, and we will.
Speaker 1: Let's get to it this morning, shall we. We've got
Speaker 1: your calls. Let me give the number out one more time,
Speaker 1: eight three three two, ask Dean eight three three the
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Speaker 1: to talk a little bit when we come back about permission,
Speaker 1: permission to go a little bit further with your home
Speaker 1: than you normally expect to the kind of attitude that
Speaker 1: you have around the holidays. We'll talk about that. I've
Speaker 1: got a couple of cool new items to introduce to
Speaker 1: you today, and I want to remind you, and if
Speaker 1: you've never heard this before, tell you for the first time,
Speaker 1: that it's time to trim to prune your trees and
Speaker 1: exactly how we're going to go about doing that. All
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Speaker 1: fun this morning, just rested and ready to go and
Speaker 1: hope you can pick up on that energy too. It
Speaker 1: is a beautiful, beautiful weekend ahead of us here in
Speaker 1: southern California. And it's cool. Dare I say cold? No,
Speaker 1: not cold cool, cool, definitely cool outside right now and dark?
Speaker 1: And here are you here? We are you and I
Speaker 1: just hanging out on an early Saturday morning morning. People
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Speaker 1: I just want to reconnect with you, talk with you
Speaker 1: about your house. Eight three three two, ask Dean. Is
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Speaker 1: anything you want to talk about regarding your home. Construction issues,
Speaker 1: design issues, DIY stuff, whatever the case. Maybe whatever is
Speaker 1: bugging you, whatever you're scratching your head about, give me
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Speaker 1: and we've got some we've got some calls on the board,
Speaker 1: but we've got room for you. All right. This is
Speaker 1: something that always seems to come upon my mind this
Speaker 1: time of year, and that is permission. Now what do
Speaker 1: I mean by that, Well, around the holidays, people tend
Speaker 1: to change their thinking in regards to their home. You
Speaker 1: take it up a notch obviously, because you're thinking about
Speaker 1: decorating the holidays. Beckon people to decorate and to create
Speaker 1: a certain kind of emotional environment in your home. Of course,
Speaker 1: you know, like the Christmas tree and that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff and the twinkly lights and all of that, and
Speaker 1: that's not that far away, but even around our neighborhood here.
Speaker 1: We came back from vacation very very pleased to see
Speaker 1: so many of our neighbors getting into Halloween decorations and such.
Speaker 1: And it's just that kind of spirit right in the year.
Speaker 1: So we've got Halloween out in front of us, and
Speaker 1: then Thanksgiving and so on. Tina and I ran out
Speaker 1: and we grabbed a bunch of cornstalks from the local
Speaker 1: farm and propped them up all around the house and
Speaker 1: the backyard, and now our yard is full of pumpkins
Speaker 1: and gourds and not so much Halloween stuff, just autumn stuff.
Speaker 1: Probably for some of it is well, not even probably.
Speaker 1: Some of it is definitely bringing Vermont back home with us,
Speaker 1: no question about it. But the point is this. The
Speaker 1: point is this, we all give ourselves permission during the
Speaker 1: holidays to take things up a notch. We think, how,
Speaker 1: you know, what can I do to the fireplace? What
Speaker 1: can I do to this chair in this corner over here?
Speaker 1: Should we light a candle? Should we put twinkling lights
Speaker 1: over here? What can we do to these areas of
Speaker 1: our homes? To bring it up into the holiday spirit,
Speaker 1: and that I love. I love it, absolutely encourage you
Speaker 1: to step into that spirit. But here is the part
Speaker 1: of permission that I'm talking about. What I really, really
Speaker 1: really want is for you to take hold of that
Speaker 1: spirit and give yourself permission to hang on to that
Speaker 1: attitude towards your house for the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: throughout the rest of the year. Okay. The permission that
Speaker 1: we give ourselves during the holidays to make spaces very
Speaker 1: emotionally special is the permission that great homeowners give themselves
Speaker 1: year round to do exactly the same thing. Now, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, all right, let me be very clear.
Speaker 1: I am not talking about you being the person that
Speaker 1: person who never takes their Christmas lights down. No, No,
Speaker 1: that has not the point. We have like two of
Speaker 1: those people in our neighborhood. Why, that's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is that attitude of how do we
Speaker 1: make this room just emotionally special for every time we
Speaker 1: walk into it. See, we tend to give ourselves permission
Speaker 1: to do that around the holidays, and then you know,
Speaker 1: come January, it's like, put all that stuff away, let's
Speaker 1: just get back to our regular boring lives, and I
Speaker 1: don't want you to do that.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about bling and jing and everywhere, right,
Speaker 1: it's just the attitude. And so I am here to
Speaker 1: officially this morning, and this is all I'm going to
Speaker 1: say about it. I'm not going to harp on you
Speaker 1: about it. I just want to say, officially this morning,
Speaker 1: you have permission, You have my permission, please my encouragement
Speaker 1: to take this spirit that you're starting to feel, those
Speaker 1: nudges that you're starting to feel, and stretch it out
Speaker 1: over the entire year, layer after layer. They just little
Speaker 1: things here, there and everywhere as you continue to make
Speaker 1: the space that you dwell in a very special space
Speaker 1: for you every time you walk into the room, not
Speaker 1: just around Thanksgiving and Christmas, but every time all year long.
Speaker 1: Just be looking for it. It doesn't cost that much
Speaker 1: to do why because you do it slowly and easily,
Speaker 1: layer by layer. You know, a few weeks back, we
Speaker 1: were talking to you about our firefly experiment. We bought
Speaker 1: this new firefly lighting set and it's a hit. It's
Speaker 1: a hit. People love the fireflies, so we're keeping the fireflies.
Speaker 1: It was a sixty dollars investment and now it's going
Speaker 1: to live on in our yard for as long as
Speaker 1: it lasts, which I'm assuming is going to be several
Speaker 1: years at least. So it's little layers like that that
Speaker 1: simply add to the presence of your home and embrace it.
Speaker 1: Embrace this holiday decorating time that's coming soon, and then
Speaker 1: hold on to it. That's all I wanted to tell
Speaker 1: you this morning. All Right, when we come back, we've
Speaker 1: got several calls on the board, we're going to go
Speaker 1: to the phones. Your Home with Dean Sharp, the House Whispered.
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Speaker 1: to the phones. By the way, the number to reach
Speaker 1: me eight three three two. Ask Dean A three three
Speaker 1: the numeral two ask Dean. All right, let's talk to David. Hey, David,
Speaker 1: welcome home.
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, good morning, good morning. I I have
Speaker 3: a sixty five year old home. I have a two
Speaker 3: car garage. When I'm inside the garage, the wall that
Speaker 3: would face the lawn for about three feet on the bottom,
Speaker 3: so you have the cement where you park. But then
Speaker 3: you have the lip of the cement that comes up
Speaker 3: two inches that the two by fours in the structure
Speaker 3: of the garage attached to for about three feet there,
Speaker 3: and on the other wall a couple of feet, the
Speaker 3: cement is just crumbling about pieces a bit as big
Speaker 3: as my finger for no reason. I'm not touching it.
Speaker 3: I'm not. It's just crumbling and falling apart to dust.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if I should put a ceiler
Speaker 3: on it. I don't know what's causing it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you're talking about the stem wall, that small
Speaker 1: short stem wall that's rising up on the on the
Speaker 1: corner of the garage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And you're saying about three linear feet not up, but
Speaker 1: along the wall along that stem wall near the front
Speaker 1: three feet. What's on the other side of this.
Speaker 3: Wall, it would be the lawn and the flower bed.
Speaker 3: Now you can make the argument that the water is
Speaker 3: causing that. But on another wall where the door meets
Speaker 3: a regular door that goes to the backyard, that is
Speaker 3: also crumbling for a couple of feet. Now cement butts
Speaker 3: up to that the outdoor cement butts up to that door.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if it's getting moisture from the cement.
Speaker 3: It's just such an odd it's not accurrence.
Speaker 1: Are you here in southern California or you elsewhere?
Speaker 3: I'm an Orange County in California.
Speaker 1: You're an Orange County, okay, yeah, And so it's about
Speaker 1: you saying chunks about the size of your finger rolling off.
Speaker 3: That would be the biggest. Now, it hasn't compromised the
Speaker 3: area directly under the studs, the two by fours, that
Speaker 3: is the structure. But it's about an inch in, gotcha.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if I should just put sealer
Speaker 3: on it and forget about it. But a friend says
Speaker 3: that that would just trap if there's any moisture, it
Speaker 3: would just trap it in, and that would be bad
Speaker 3: to do. So I'm confused.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got you, all right. So here's the situation.
Speaker 1: Not exactly sure what the cause is here. It's simply
Speaker 1: maybe Now it's a sixty you say, a sixty five
Speaker 1: year old home. Okay. The thing with concrete is it's
Speaker 1: hard to tell from concrete that's that old when how
Speaker 1: the conditions it was poured in. Obviously it has been
Speaker 1: there for sixty five years. It may be may be
Speaker 1: the fact that it is starting to crumble as a
Speaker 1: result of it not having been perfectly mixed in the
Speaker 1: and perfectly cured in the best possible situation when the
Speaker 1: house was first built, that it's just showing its age essentially.
Speaker 1: That sounds like that is more than likely the thing,
Speaker 1: because of all the things that concrete can do, Concrete
Speaker 1: either gives out pretty quickly because it got screwed up
Speaker 1: to the beginning the beginning, or it doesn't. It just holds.
Speaker 1: And most of the things that people say, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: worried about my concrete is what we call effluorescence, which
Speaker 1: are salt mineral salts that are being pushed through the
Speaker 1: wall because of moisture. It sounds like, David, that it
Speaker 1: simply may be in your case that this concrete is
Speaker 1: starting to show its age. Now, is that a problem.
Speaker 1: Probably not, It's probably not a problem. It's probably just
Speaker 1: settling in there. So what I want you to do is, well,
Speaker 1: we can do a couple of things. One, I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you to sit still, if you haven't seen
Speaker 1: any significant cracking crumbling off that edge, that's one thing.
Speaker 1: But if we haven't seen any cracking, okay, then sit
Speaker 1: still and just keep an eye on it. Don't lose
Speaker 1: any sleep over it, but just keep an eye on okay. Secondly,
Speaker 1: if you want to help stop the crumpling on the inside,
Speaker 1: then I don't want you to use a sealer, because
Speaker 1: your friend is right, we don't want to trap moisture
Speaker 1: inside the cement there. But you could run down to
Speaker 1: the hardware store get a little concrete patch kit. And
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about trying to reform the edge. If
Speaker 1: you were ambitious, you could try and reform the edge there,
Speaker 1: but just kind of get a patch kit and mix
Speaker 1: up a little concrete patch like sidewalk patch, and you know,
Speaker 1: kind of tral that onto the crumbling area to sort
Speaker 1: of just hold it and secure it so it doesn't
Speaker 1: want to crumble anymore, just to hold it together. And
Speaker 1: then now I know you can't do it on the
Speaker 1: side with the sidewalk on it, but on the side
Speaker 1: that is got planting on the other side, if you
Speaker 1: wanted to, I would say, why not invest a little
Speaker 1: bit of time, dig down just a bit, and I
Speaker 1: mean just a bit, meaning you know, in that planter bed,
Speaker 1: maybe dig down eight ten inches and just for you know,
Speaker 1: six inches wide so you have access to the lower
Speaker 1: part of that concrete footer, and put a little water
Speaker 1: proofing treatment on the outside of that concrete so that
Speaker 1: we don't want to trap moisture inside the concrete stem wall,
Speaker 1: but we can certainly reduce the amount of moisture that
Speaker 1: comes into it, okay, So that would slow the absorption
Speaker 1: rate of moisture from at least the garden bed. Now
Speaker 1: the other side, if moisture is the issue, okay, which
Speaker 1: I suspect it probably is, it doesn't surprise me that
Speaker 1: both sides are crumbling equally because concrete is just a
Speaker 1: giant sponge and the concrete of the sidewalk or the
Speaker 1: cement that's abutting it on the other side is doing
Speaker 1: the same thing. It's you know, conveying moisture into the cement.
Speaker 1: But we could slow it down at least on the
Speaker 1: planter wall side, if that makes sense.
Speaker 3: If it ever gets worse, what type of contractor would
Speaker 3: I call.
Speaker 1: If it ever gets worse, I want you to call
Speaker 1: a foundation repair contractor, like a foundation here. Write this
Speaker 1: down a Foundation Repair LA. They are the guys that
Speaker 1: I go to almost with every one of the foundation issues,
Speaker 1: and they specialize in justice, just taking people's foundations that
Speaker 1: are failing, abutting them, supporting them, replacing them, you know,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. You don't want to call
Speaker 1: just a regular general contractor because the chances are they'll
Speaker 1: turn around and call a place like Foundation Repair LA
Speaker 1: and then add their feet on top of it for
Speaker 1: making the call. So you could just call these guys
Speaker 1: directly and they will help you out if you ever
Speaker 1: see cracking or settling that in any way affects the
Speaker 1: rest of the wall. But just to you know, hold
Speaker 1: on to the crumbling for now and just keep an
Speaker 1: eye on it.
Speaker 3: Perfect. You've been a big help.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, David, Thank you for the call,
Speaker 1: my friend. All right, when we come back more of
Speaker 1: I told you, I told you we were going to
Speaker 1: solve problems. Did I not? Of course I did. Here
Speaker 1: Pie the house, welcome home. We're doing a little bit
Speaker 1: of this and that and taking calls today. We're back
Speaker 1: from vacation. I'm back with you live again, feeling good.
Speaker 1: Hope you're feeling good too. It's a beautiful weekend ahead
Speaker 1: of us here. Truly, truly, let's get back to the phones.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to Peter. Hey, Peter, welcome home.
Speaker 2: I want to thank you for a great show you
Speaker 2: in your better half. I mean, you have such a yeah,
Speaker 2: you have such an upuffing attitude. It's great this early
Speaker 2: in the morning, you know, besides of being knowledgeable. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: my gardner. We have two great guys. I mean I
Speaker 2: take them out of coffee, you know. They do such
Speaker 2: a great job around here. But the older guy, he
Speaker 2: has a tendency, comes out with this nylon weed cutter,
Speaker 2: you know, and he cuts it down to the quip,
Speaker 2: you know. So I had half of my lawn was
Speaker 2: green with weeds, which I was happy to have, and
Speaker 2: I was watering and keeping the weeds going, and he
Speaker 2: cut that down and now I've got a dust bowl
Speaker 2: back there. And I talked to his son and he
Speaker 2: said he would come in with a rotokiller this week
Speaker 2: and rotokiller and then we'll put in a grass. And
Speaker 2: one of the questions I wanted to ask you is too,
Speaker 2: I like to keep the grass like at two or
Speaker 2: three inches for the dogs, you know, because they like to,
Speaker 2: you know, wrestle around in it and everything. So that
Speaker 2: was one question. I wanted to see how long I
Speaker 2: should keep the length of the grass because they seem
Speaker 2: to want to cut it real short. And then the
Speaker 2: other thing is what can I put in there that's
Speaker 2: really fast growing you know, that will take take so
Speaker 2: I can green up that backyard pretty quick. It's only
Speaker 2: about eighty by eighty, you know, Well that's a good
Speaker 2: the yard. That's a good sized yard for for a
Speaker 2: lot of people here, they'd be like only eighty by eighty.
Speaker 2: What is that the south for there? No, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a nice backyard, but it's a and now it's
Speaker 2: a dust bowl, and I'm trying to think of the
Speaker 2: quickest way to get it back into green up. And
Speaker 2: I don't care if it's weeds. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: awful plant whatever grows fast, Well, I just like to
Speaker 2: give them and find what they're going to bring in
Speaker 2: the seeds. So I don't know, all.
Speaker 1: Right, well, weeds grow the fastest. Now I'm assuming I'm
Speaker 1: assuming you've just you've you've priced out and decided, no,
Speaker 1: we're not going to put turf back there. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna put sawed back.
Speaker 2: No, no, And I'm a renter. I'm glad I'm a
Speaker 2: renter because I'm not paying high taxes and all that.
Speaker 2: But my landlord's going to take care of it.
Speaker 3: You said he'll.
Speaker 2: He'll give them instructions and not to cut it lower
Speaker 2: than two or three inches. So because I had a
Speaker 2: beautiful green. The whole thing was like beautiful green. But
Speaker 2: then they cut it down last year, and they cut
Speaker 2: it down so short, and we got that hot weather
Speaker 2: and it just burned out the lawn. So this is
Speaker 2: the third time they've done this, you know, like cutting
Speaker 2: it so short. I just wanted to get your opinion
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 1: Well, all right, So first of all, a couple of things.
Speaker 1: Perennial Rye grass, Kentucky bluegrass, either rye or bluegrass. They're
Speaker 1: very very fast growers. Okay, they're not my first perennial rye,
Speaker 1: just Rye Kentucky bluegrass, I would probably Okay, So here's
Speaker 1: the thing, you know, you know me, I'm not a
Speaker 1: big fan of non native grasses in California, but you're
Speaker 1: renting and you just need it back, and I get it,
Speaker 1: and I'm a very practical guy. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, So I'm not going to tell you to
Speaker 1: do a scientific experiment with the backyard. And you know
Speaker 1: you can, though, look into bermuda grass. Bermuda I think
Speaker 1: it germinates in as little as ten days. Bermuda grass
Speaker 1: grows thick, and it has the advantage of being tough,
Speaker 1: especially for pets and people running around on it. And
Speaker 1: so I would probably direct you towards bermuda grass first,
Speaker 1: but the rye and the bluegrass probably grow a little
Speaker 1: bit faster, maybe just just a hair faster. So yeah,
Speaker 1: those are the grasses that I would recommend as far
Speaker 1: as getting it back and then keeping it tough. And
Speaker 1: the other thing I like about bermuda grass is because
Speaker 1: it has a thick matting underneath it, it tends to
Speaker 1: exclude weeds better than just your typical straight bladed bluegrass
Speaker 1: or rye when it comes to a lawn. That being said,
Speaker 1: let me be clear and underscore the fact that you
Speaker 1: already know real quick here before I have to go,
Speaker 1: don't cut your grass too short. Get on, you know,
Speaker 1: to tell them no more coffees and lunches for you
Speaker 1: guys if you cut my grass too short, Because grass,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the photosynthesis blade of grass is
Speaker 1: the is the way a lawn photosynthesizes, and so most lawns,
Speaker 1: almost all lawns, listen to me, everybody, Almost all lawns
Speaker 1: optimally should be kept at three to four inches, and
Speaker 1: people are gasping four inches. I would never Yeah, three
Speaker 1: to four inches, that's lush, and I'm gonna throw another
Speaker 1: curveball at you. Have your gardener stop with the sucking
Speaker 1: up of all of grass blades. The very very optimal
Speaker 1: situation you could get yourself in is to mow the
Speaker 1: grass without collecting the grass. Mow it and allow the
Speaker 1: cuttings to go down and lay down inside the lawn
Speaker 1: a macerating mower, so that they themselves begin to self
Speaker 1: mulch the lawn. Best possible situation, lowest amount of weeds
Speaker 1: growing through healthiest lawn three to four inches, leaving the
Speaker 1: cuttings ground up in the lawn instead of bagging them
Speaker 1: and taking them away, leave it all there. Best possible
Speaker 1: lawn situation. And in the meantime, after this rototilling, change
Speaker 1: your watering schedule so that I don't want you to
Speaker 1: increase the amount of water that you put back there, Peter,
Speaker 1: but I want you to break up that amount of
Speaker 1: water into smaller doses throughout the day, just if you
Speaker 1: want it to grow back as fast as possible. Instead
Speaker 1: of hitting it all at once on your regular watering schedule,
Speaker 1: break it up so that you distribute it in smaller
Speaker 1: doses across the period of time to keep the soil
Speaker 1: as moist as possible, not drowning, but as moist as
Speaker 1: possible for as long long as possible. Wall those new seeds, Germany, Peter,
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