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Description
Izaak Walton League
A
Thank
you
guys
very
much
for
coming,
so
you
are
here
for
lunch
sustainability
same
as
sustainability
and
water
conservation.
Try
not
to
say
that
too
many
times,
whoops,
okay.
So
what
it
really
is
about
is
healthy
soils,
equal,
healthy
lawns
and
that's
soils
or
soil
condition
drives
what
sort
of
vegetation
can
grow
at
the
surface.
This
is
my
son
was
helping
me
take
a
soil
sample.
This
is
soil
sample
out
of
my
yard.
This
is
what
we
want
to
see
very
black.
A
We
don't
want
to
see
brown
or
tan,
because
then
it's
telling
us
it
doesn't
have
any
organic
matter
and
that's
what
really
drives
most
of
soil
health.
So
I
will
talk
to
you
guys
about
taking
soil
samples.
How
to
how
to
send
those
in
you
can
do
a
visual
guide
and
I've
got.
Some
will
have
some
some
visual
guides
in
here,
but
it's
really
it's
ideal
to
take
a
soil
sample,
send
it
in
to
a
soil
lab
like
at
the
University
of
Minnesota
soil
testing,
lab
seventeen
dollars
to
send
a
soil
test
in.
A
But
then
you
get
back
really
specific
results
for
your
yard,
for
soil
content.
Being
one
of
those
that
are
key,
so
my
name
is
Greg
Thompson
I'm,
a
Bloomington
resident
I've
lived
in
Bloomington
for
18
years
during
my
day
job
now,
for
the
last
about
10
years,
I've
worked
at
the
city
of
Eagan
and
stormwater
water
quality,
protecting
surface
water
bodies.
Before
that
I
worked
for
the
Soil
and
Water
Conservation
districts
in
the
Twin
Cities
area.
A
So
the
seven
Metro
counties
did
that
for
about
ten
years
and
then
before
that
I
was
in
the
private
sector.
In
a
can
landscape
architecture,
natural
resource
management,
consulting
company
in
South,
Dakota
and
originally
I'm,
a
South
Dakota
native
I
grew
up
on
a
farm
out
by
the
Mitchell
area,
so
I
went
to
South
Dakota
State
University,
there
landscape
architecture
program,
there
graduated
23
years
like
24
years
ago
now,
but
my
whole
life
has
been
involved
with
soil
plants
and
water
and
I
love
it
but
anyway.
A
So
that's
what
I
get
to
do
for
my
day.
Job
still
so
I
want
to
dis
mention.
We
have
a
free
water,
smart
landscaping
class,
that's
more
comprehensive
in
nature.
This
is
going
to
cover
some
of
it,
but
some
of
the
law
and
information
here,
but
we
have
more
of
an
expanded
class.
That's
on
April
4th
Wednesday
6:00
to
7:30
at
the
Penn
Lake
library.
In
the
meeting
room
there
you
can
reserve
a
seat.
It's
a
free
class
reserved
a
seat
at
Busch,
Lake,
Ike's,
dot,
o-r-g
we're
going
to
be
covering
salons
and
soils.
A
So
you
know
part
of
what
we're
covering
today,
but
also
including
some
information
on
rain
gardens,
rainwater,
harvesting
and
plant
selection.
So
picking
the
right
plant
for
the
right
place,
picking
a
plant,
that's
point
or
a
group
of
plants
that
are
appropriate
for
your
yard
conditions
like
I,
got
a
heavy
shade.
A
I've
got
a
big
linden
tree
with
big
leaves
and
nothing
grows
underneath
it
there's
a
whole
bunch
of
stuff
that
will
grow
underneath
it,
but
we
can
sort
of
help
guide
you
on
that,
so
Minnesota
rainfall
and
snowfall
annual
precipitation,
so
Twin
Cities
area
in
here.
So
we're
sitting
right
here
in
the
southern
edge
of
Bloomington
or
said
that
edge
of
Hennepin
County
we
get
on
average
in
the
Twin
Cities
thirty-two
inches
of
annual
precipitation,
where
I
grew
up
in
South
Dakota,
we
were
about
at
14
inches
of
annual
precipitation.
A
We
always
thought
we
had
relatives
that
lived
here.
We'd
come
and
visit
like
Minneapolis
is
like
a
tropical
rainforest
compared
to
where
we
were
from
and
then
when
I
moved
here
in
94
and
then
worked
at
resident
in
a
residential
landscape
design,
build
company
and
I.
Just
remember
talking
to
people
like.
Oh,
it's
so
dry
air,
so
dry.
Here
we
never
get
any
rain
and
I
think
from
where
I
was
from
get
seemly
rain
all
the
time.
A
But
if
you
went
two
weeks
without
some
rainfall,
then
that
seemed
like
a
big
drought
here,
but
not
where
I
was
from
there's
soil
conditions.
So
these
precipitation,
Maps
soil,
Maps,
vegetation
maps,
they'll
sort
of
lineup
together
these
different
types,
the
the
plants
that
were
there
were
driven
by
the
annual
precipitation
rates
and
the
soil.
The
conditions
that
were
there
are
the
main
soil
groups.
So,
like
the
Brown
soils
developed
underneath
prairie
plants,
the
green
soils
developed
underneath
deciduous
forests.
Then
you
had
black.
That
was
peat
deposits.
A
A
The
northern
coniferous
forests,
where
those
plant
communities
generally
existed
prior
to
European
settlement,
so
in
the
Twin
Cities,
so
Bloomington
right
in
here
we
were
really
oak
savannah,
so
scattered
oak
trees,
burr
Oaks,
typically
and
then
the
yellow
that
was
Prairie
tall
grass
prairie
areas
just
to
the
west
of
us
was
the
green.
The
maple
basswood
forests
of
the
big
woods
also
that's
sort
of
wrapped
into
Dakota
County
a
little
bit,
and
then
you
get
you
know
see
up
here,
but
there's
this
band
of
where
the
Prairie
was
and
then
there's.
A
You
know
we'd
have
some
creeping
up
in
here,
but
that
was
because
the
soil
types
and
then
your
deciduous
woods
or
the
savanna
was
sort
of
the
merge
in
between
Prairie
and
a
woodland
sort
of,
and
then
the
northern
coniferous
forest
areas.
So
this
sort
of
helps
guide
us
to
to
not
on
how
not
to
try
to
force
some
plant
to
grow
in
a
condition
that
it
doesn't
want
to
be
growing
in
that
state.
It's
just
not
maybe
appropriate
the
reason
that
a
lot
of
those
plants
are
growing
here.
A
They
just
developed
deep
root
systems
or
just
developed
to
exist
in
the
climate
that
conditions
that
we
were
getting
so
a
lot
of
deep
roots.
These
are
in
one
foot
increments
over
here,
so
some
this
is
18
inch
out
of
24
inch
tall
prairie
plain
called
lead
plant.
We
had
a
growing
in
our
pastures
out
in
South
Dakota
18,
24,
inches
tall
15
foot
deep
root
system,
so
we
go
into
a
little
bit
of
a
drought
period
even
for
a
month
or
two
months.
It
doesn't
know
it.
A
You
know,
because
it's
getting
moisture
and
nutrients
so
far
down
as
compared
to
Kentucky
bluegrass,
which
is
from
Europe
it
got
brought
into
United
States.
It
was
hybridized
a
lot
in
Kentucky,
but
Kentucky
gets
way
more
rainfall
than
we
get
in
Minnesota
way
more
and
where
Kentucky
bluegrass
originally
comes
from
in
Europe,
it
gets
four
times
as
much
annual
rainfall
as
we
get
in
Minnesota
it
just
it
grows
here
if
it's
gets
a
lot
of
rain
or
if
it's
watered
a
lot.
A
If
it
gets
a
lot
of
supplemental
watering,
it
is
never
gonna
be
able
to
develop
a
deep
root
system.
It's
just
that's
not
what
that
plant
is.
It
can
only
have
a
two
to
three
inch
deep
root
system.
That's
where
it
maxes
out.
So
we
go
into
two
weeks
of
no
rainfall
here,
it's
getting
stressed
out.
You
screw
up
the
soil
underneath
it
or
the
soil
that
it's
planted
in
it's
even
worse.
It
shortens
its
stress
period
of
when
it
starts
exhibiting
stress
but
like
out
in
South
Dakota
on
our
pastures.
We'd.
A
Have
this
plant
called
buffalo
grass,
which
doesn't
grow
here?
It's
too
wet,
but
it
would
be
six
inches
tall,
but
it's
got
a
seven-foot
deep
root
system.
You
know
if
we
just
find
this
big
patch
of
it.
So
on
South,
Dakota,
North,
Dakota,
Nebraska
Kansas.
There
are
people
that
are
converting
their
lawns
into
this
buffalo
grass,
because
it's
just
much
more
appropriate
plant
species
out
there.
A
No
one's
checking
how
what
the
depth
is
of
what
you're
putting
it
on
there.
You
would
just
put
it
on
so
something
look
like
it
was
there.
You
know
they
often
specify
it's
four
inches
or
six
inches
that,
in
my
experience,
never
happened
and
my
follow
up.
Experience
I've
never
seen
that.
But
so
you
put
rough
soils,
you
bring
more
clays
and
sands
in
with
a
little
bit
of
darkness.
It
had
a
little
bit
of
organic
matter
and
you're
dumping
that,
on
top
of
more
compacted
mineral
soils
and
plants,
really
need
organic
matter.
A
You
know
they
need
the
stuff
that
was
there
for,
but
and
then
you
compact
it
so
it's
even
worse,
but
in
natural
soils
they
naturally
have
about
five
percent
soil,
organic
content,
five
to
eight
percent,
and
then
you
have
mineral
soils
so
stands
or
clays.
You
have
airspace
air
pockets
and
then
moisture.
That's
within
there.
You
compact
it
and
you
squish
it
down
you've,
stripped
off
the
topsoil.
So
now
the
are
they
strip
off
the
organic
matter.
So
now
your
organic
is
maybe
two
percent
oftentimes.
A
We
see
you
know
between
one
to
two
percent
and
then
you've
squished
down
your
air
pockets
that
were
in
there
the
water
that's
able
to
be
in
those
air
pockets.
And
then
you
just
have
mostly
mineral
soil,
which
plants
don't
really
need
that
much
and
it's
so
compacted.
It
makes
it
really
hard
for
roots
to
grow
down
there.
So
what
happens
then,
because
we've
done
that
we've
screwed
up
the
growing
environment
for
these
plants.
They
can't
get
roots
down
deep
into
the
soil.
It's
too
compacted.
A
They
don't
have
any
nutrients
in
there
or
organic
matter
that
helps
the
plants.
We
end
up
dumping
a
lot
of
water
from
irrigation
onto
lawns
and
landscapes
to
keep
them
alive,
so
on
an
average
residential
situation
out
of
your
water
use
average.
Forty
four
percent
of
the
a
water
use
is
for
indoor
fifty
six
percent
for
outdoor.
A
We
should
not
have
this
much
being
used
outdoors,
especially
you
know
like
in
a
city,
it's
treated,
drinking
water,
it's
deep
aquifer
water
is
being
treated
for
to
make
it
safe
for
drinking
and
we're
just
dumping
tons
of
it.
You
know
millions
of
gallons,
billions
of
gallons
on
lawns
to
keep
them
alive
wrong,
plant
horrible
growing
conditions.
A
Just
a
little
side
note
I
want
to
show
on
the
endure
the
forty
four
percent
you
know
of
your
water
usage
average
of
indoor
where
that
goes
to
toilet
flushing
is
a
big
one:
clothes
washing
faucets
showers
and
baths
this
one's
easy
to
fix.
We
do
have
a
handout
so
I'm
with
also
in
my
volunteer
capacity
and
with
the
Isaac
Walton
League,
with
the
Bush
Lake
chapter.
We
have
a
booth
down
in
the
sustainability
area.
A
It's
called
down
at
the
far
south
end
of
the
of
the
complex
here
that
we
have
handouts
of
ways
to
save
water
outside
in
in
in
in.
But
what
what
happens
then?
So
during
the
nine
growing
season?
This
is
within
bloomington
on
average,
how
much
water
is
getting
pumped
out
treated
and
sent
out
into
the
system
for
drinking
water?
You
know
into
the
drinking
water
pipes
on
average
300
million
gallons
of
water
per
month,
so
this
was
from
2006,
it's
crept
up,
but
so
here's
your
baseline,
it's
called
this
is
what
people
are
using
indoors.
A
Then
you
get
to
the
outdoor
watering
season
and
then
boom.
You
know,
then
it
jumps
up
to
here
is
800
million
gallons
of
water
per
month,
so
for
watering
lawns
swimming
pools
are
in
there
too,
but
a
lot
of
its
lawns
and
yeah.
So
then,
where
that
comes
from
the
city
buy
some
water
from
the
city
of
Minneapolis
that
just
using
treated
Mississippi,
River
drinking
water,
so
that's
sort
of
expensive
they're,
pulling
water
out
of
deep
aquifers
are
between
about
400
and
a
thousand
feet
below
the
surface.
A
Great
water,
great
water,
but
it
takes
a
long
time
for
any
replacement
water
to
get
back
down
there.
So
we're
pulling
this
out
at
a
faster
rate
than
its
replenishing
Bloomington's
sort
of
sitting
in
a
good
spot.
Just
geologically
that
it's
it's
crazy
and
what's
happening
is
way
down
deep
subsurface,
so
they're
not
experiencing
or
predicted
to
experience.
A
The
issues
like
like
other
cities,
I'll
show
a
couple
slides
on
that,
but
you
know
something:
I
encourage
people
to
do,
try
to
find
out
how
much
water
you
use,
really
look
at
your
water
bill
and
look
at
some
specific
numbers.
Sorry
I'd
picked
the
wrong
text
color
here,
but
you
should
look
at
your
usage
amount
and
your
use
in
your
date
range
and
so
here's
off
of
my
water
bill.
A
So
as
an
example,
here's
my
use
that
are
my
reading
dates
and
I
wish
they
would
put
in
like
this
is
how
many
days
it
is
just
to
be
able
to
calculate
that
quicker.
So
I
use
a
little
app
to
figure
that
out
61
days
and
then
here's
my
usage
amount,
so
5059
gallons,
divided
by
61
days,
I'm
using
eighty
two
point:
nine
gallons
per
day,
my
family,
that's
my
wintertime
use
my
summertime
use
80.8
gallons
per
day.
You
know,
I
have
usually
no
outdoor
water
use.
A
I
got
young
kids,
we,
you
know
we'll
do
this
little
swimming
pool
stuff
outside,
but
Dad
gets
a
little
cranky
if,
if
they
don't
cover
a
little
swimming
pool,
and
then
they
get
a
bunch
of
stuff
in
it
like
we
got
a
dump
dad
and
put
fresh
water
and
again
would
cover
it
cover
it
with
the
tarp.
So
so
my
my
floor
person,
water,
you
so
the
average
and
I.
This
is
the
national
sort
of
average
for
person.
A
Household
use
is
160
to
240
gallons
per
day,
so
my
household
and
I've
got
two
kids
they're
clean.
We
take
showers
and
stuff,
we
wash
clothes
I'm,
not
using
I'm,
not
washing
my
clothes
in
the
creeks
we
use
20
gallons
per
day.
You
know
roughly
and
I'm
not
doing
any
crazy
measures,
but
when
I
first
moved
into
the
house,
first
thing
I
did
was
replace
my
toilets
because
that's
the
biggest
water
user
in
the
house,
I
had
five
gallon
per
flush,
super
old
toilets
and
they
have
1.2
gallon
1.28
gallons
per
flush.
A
Toilets
that
are
awesome,
so
replace
that
and
night
really
took
a
dive.
However,
I'm
gonna
done
show
you
the
there's
cool
stuff
on
the
city
website
or
on
the
city.
It's
called
the
Bloomington
customer
web.
If
you
pay
your
utility
bill
online,
you
can
get
customer
timeline
usage
summaries,
and
so
you
show
give
me
my
records
how
much
I've
used
so
here's
my
crazy
spikes
like
that.
Just
went
out
of
the
norm
like
boom
big
one
there
and
a
big
one
here.
A
This
is
embarrassing
because
I'm
just
ok,
not
the
baby
clothes
thing,
but
baby
number
one
showed
up
we're
doing
a
lot
of
clothes
washing
bladder.
Oh
four
outfits
a
day.
You
know
just
throwing
up
on
stuff
all
the
time.
Baby
number
two
comes
up
same
deal.
A
lot
of
clothes
washing
big
bump
I
did
see
my
lawn
in
the
fall
of
2012
and
that's
where
I
did
a
lot
of
lawn
watering.
There
popped
up,
but
it
was
a
one-time
deal.
A
Then,
over
here
my
fault,
I
put
in
some
planted
some
shrubs
I'm
playing
with
the
kids
outside,
like
I'm
gonna
turn
the
hose
on
over
here
and
then
we'll
go
play,
and
then
we
went
in
for
the
night
and
I
forgot
to
turn
the
hose
off
and
I
skipped
the
next
day
and
I
didn't
hear
it
running
in
my
house.
You
know,
and
so
it
was
like
two
days
later,
I
went
outside
and
walked
through
my
lawn,
and
it
was
great
and
I'm
on
sand.
A
You
know
it
drains
out
super
fast
and
I
felt
horrible,
but
it
was
Oh
nearly
eleven
thousand
gallons
of
water
that
I
dumped
on
that
month,
because
I
just
I
blew
it
I,
not
gonna.
Do
it
again,
I'm
gonna
get
there's
a
little
automated
thing
that
you
can
put
on
your
if
your
water,
like
that,
you
get
a
little
timer,
it's
like
10
bucks,
put
it
on
and
say
water
for
30
minutes
and
shut
off
and
I
should
have
done
that
and
I
had
one
in
my
garage.
A
I
just
didn't
use
it,
but
it's
anyway,
but
what
we
don't
live
crazy,
so
great
and
compacted
soil
is
top
slow
strip
compacted
subsoils.
You
have
and
I
used
to
be
a
landscape
contractor,
and
this
is
what
we
do
to
people's
yards
and
then
we
would
roll
sat
out.
On
top
of
this.
We
would
be
the
last
contractor
on
new
construction
sites,
sometimes
we're
doing
landscape
renovations
of
existing
homes
and
we're
running
our
tract
or
our
wheeled
skid
loaders
everyone's
using
wheeled
back
then
now
there's
tract
equipment
so
that
spreads
the
weight
out.
A
It
doesn't
compact
as
much,
but
it
still
compacts
pretty
good,
but
wheeled
equipment,
especially
that's
putting
like
a
skid
loader
10,000
pounds.
Putting
all
of
that
weight
underneath
four
points.
That's
just
you
couldn't
do
a
better
job
of
compacting
and
especially
if
it's
wet
and
you're
running
out
there
and
it's
just
horrible,
so
you
put
sod
on
it.
A
Here
you
know
pops
up
there
to
keep
base
flow
sort
of
up
now.
The
creek
is
just
really
flashy:
it'll
go
really
low,
I'm
gonna
get
a
rain
event
and
then
pops
up,
but
anyway
so
end
up.
We
put
turf
grass
on
life
support
system
to
keep
it
alive
because
it
can't
get
ruts
in.
It's
got
horrible
growing
conditions
underneath
it
it
needs
water
to
just
to
grow
and
then
fertilization.
A
Okay.
So
what
we
promote
is
water,
smart
landscaping,
building
healthy
soil
number
one
using
water
wisely
and
selecting
property
plants
so
for
a
health
and
healthy
lawn,
deeper
roots,
equal
less
irrigation
needs,
so
we
need
roots
to
go
down
as
deep
as
possible.
Raising
the
mole
height
to
three
inches
encourages
deeper
rooting.
If
you're
mowing
it
short
like
inch
and
a
half,
it
can
only
support
an
inch
and
a
half
deep
root
system,
so
on
Kentucky
bluegrass,
the
top
height
is
directly
correlated
to
the
bottom
rut:
depth
if
you're
mowing
it
at
3
inches.
A
If
your
mower
can
go
that
high
or
potentially
4
inches,
then
you
can
get
a
deeper
root
system
makes
it
more.
Drought,
tolerant,
reduces
moisture
loss
to
with
the
more
roots
that
it
can
have
accessing
moisture,
don't
mow
during
droughts.
Once
we
stop
getting
rainfalls,
you
can
stop
mowing,
because
your
lawn
is
gonna,
stop
growing.
You
know
for
the
most
part,
every
time
you
mow
it
when
it's
dry,
it
stresses
it
out
and
it
makes
it.
It
creates
more
area,
more
surface
area
where
it's
losing
water
out
of
it.
A
It's
just
wicking
it
out
in
a
water
vapor
and
then
it
starts
wilting,
and
then
you
start
watering
it,
and
it's
just
people
just
wanting
to
just
continuously
mole
of
like
I
mow
every
Thursday,
and
this
is
what
I
do
and
then
you
know
so
don't
have
to
do
that
using
a
very
sharp
mulching
blade.
That's
very
important.
A
It's
a
good
idea
to
have
too
leads,
so
you
always
have
one
on
hand,
one
ready
to
go,
let's
just
sharpened
up
and
they
keep
checking
those
because,
if
you're,
using
a
dull
blade,
if
you
can
run
your
finger
on
that
blade
very
carefully,
but
if
it
does
not
feel
sharp,
if
feel
feels
blunt,
it's
tearing
the
grass
and
that
creates
more
surface
area
where
it
can
lose
water.
If
you're
cutting
with
a
sharp
blade,
it
makes
a
pretty
clean,
cut,
less
surface
area
on
those
leaf
blade
tips
and
also
a
mulching
blade.
A
Finally,
chops,
the
grass
blades.
Don't
you
know
you
don't
have
to
beg,
there's
no
need
for
begging
anymore.
You
reduce
your
removing
free,
organic
matter
from
your
lawn.
You
use
a
mulching
blade.
Some
people
go,
it
just
has
too
much
crap
that
gets
left
sorry
on
on
the
surface
of
the
lawn,
with,
with
their
blade,
go
to
a
mulching
blade,
maybe
drive
a
little
bit
slower.
A
A
Time
your
mowing
too
predicted
rain
events.
We've
got
all
this
great
local
weather
information.
Now
you
can
go
on
a
web
site,
Weather
Underground,
wonder
ground,
calm
and
then
find
a
weather
station
near
your
house,
there's
probably
20
or
30
of
them
across
Bloomington
that
people
have
set
up
that
are
reliable
weather
stations
that
then
you
can
find
your
weather
forecast
and
also
what
how
much
precipitation
we
just
got.
A
But
look
at
those
weather
forecasts
because
Weather
Underground
there's
their
predictions
are
real
close,
so
they
also
predict
amounts,
and
so
you
wanna,
if
you're,
looking
at
like
this
weekend,
well
chance
of
thunderstorm
point
three
six
inches
point:
you
know:
0.4
0.2,
that's
a
good
amount
of
water.
You
mow
before
that,
because
then
your
lawns
gonna
get
watered.
It's
not
going
to
stress
it
out,
because
every
time
you
mow
it
it
stresses
it
out.
You
mow
it
here
and
then
it
gets
water.
It's
going
to
be
a
pretty
decent
growing
condition
for
it
and
remove.
A
You
know,
need
for
irrigation
of
it
if
you
did
that
later
so
mold
before
the
rain,
don't
mow
during
her
before
droughts.
This
is
my
yard,
so
I
slit
seed
it
in
2013.
So
that
was
my
big
water
bill
thing
in
the
or
my
big
water
usage
spiked
in
the
fall.
So
I
had
a
my
large
was
sort
of
struggling.
It
was
Kentucky
bluegrass
and
I
hired
a
guy,
a
contractor
that
had
a
slit
cedar
so
in
the
fall
I
bought
the
seed
I
bought.
A
It's
called
a
fine
fescue
seed
mix
from
a
company
called
Prairie
nursery
dot-com
that
they
shipped
for
free
I
got
that
seed
mix.
I
gave
it
to
him.
Cuz
he's
like
no
I
got
a
seed
mix.
I
I've
worked
enough
in
landscape
industry
of
I
know
how
all
that
stuff
goes.
You
know
people
are
getting
cheap
seed,
mixes
and
stuff
or
I'm
just
picky
about
it
right.
So
I
gave
him
a
seed
Mike
something
this
is
what
I
want
so
he's.
A
Let's
see
that
in
so
what
that
does
is
rather
than
over
seeding,
it
cuz
say
you
scatter
seed
onto
a
lawn
most
of
that
seeds.
Gonna
get
hung
up
and
just
dry
out
and
die
it'll
be
bird
seed.
You
need
the
law,
the
seed
to
contact
soil
to
be
able
to
germinate,
so
these
slit
Cedars
it
just
has
a
bunch
of
little
blades
all
across
this
little
device.
A
Self
propelled
device
cuts
through
the
soil
drops
the
seeds
in
that,
and
so
it
takes
a
little
while,
but
my
lawn
has
converted
from
a
Kentucky
bluegrass
lawn
into
a
fine
fescue
lawn
that
has
a
deeper
root
system.
I've
got
really
sandy
soils
and
shady,
but
it
does
well
on
Sun
to,
but
it
has
converted
now
I,
don't
fertilize
my
yard
I've,
especially
you
know.
If
any
of
you
fertilize
and
the
U
of
M
still,
you
know
suggest,
fall
fertilization
of
some
nitrogen
and
one
pound.
A
You
know
per
thousand
square
feet
or
something
like
that
know
that
U
of
M
does
not
recommend
spring
fertilization
or
summer
fertilization.
It's
only
fall
because
that
drives
root
growth.
If
you
fertilize
in
the
spring,
if
you
fertilize
in
the
summer
that
that
fertilizes
four
top
growth
that
is
going
to
make
you
mo
more
often
that
is
going
to
use
more
resources
to
make
up
for
that
plant
to
then
it
needs
more
water.
A
You
to
do
that,
and
so
by
fertilizing
in
the
spring
and
in
the
summer,
multiple
fertilizers
or
fertilized
applications
you're
making
much
more
work
for
yourself.
What
happens
in
my
lawn?
It's
not
super
bright
green,
like
my
neighbors,
who
fertilize
the
heck
out
of
their
lawns
in
the
spring
that
doesn't
bother
me
I've
dealt
with
it.
I've
accepted
it
I'm,
not
in
a
race.
My
race
is
to
the
you
know,
get
my
outdoor
water
usage
down
so
I'm
an
I'm
nerd
I'm,
a
scientist
sort.
So
I
track
things.
A
I
have
a
little
clipboard
in
my
yard.
Just
to
remind
myself
when
was
the
last
time
that
I
mowed,
so
this
is
my:
we
got
to
a
dry
period
two
months
before
the
end
of
June.
I
stopped
mowing
my
yard,
because
I
wanted
to
get
to
a
certain
height
before
I
mow.
It
I,
don't
fertilize
it
so
I'm,
not
forcing
it.
You
know
artificially
into
growth,
and
so
that
was
it
eight
weeks
without
mowing.
A
This
was
done
it
at
12
weeks
without
mowing
my
son
sitting
in
it.
You
know
the
top
of
his
knees
like
at
4
inches.
It's
not
a
weedy
jungle.
It
takes
out
the
more
shade
canopy
you
have
with
turf
grass
the
more
competition
that
provides
for,
like
shading
out
dandelions
things
like
that.
You
could
make
a
better
growing
environment
for
Danny
lines
and,
if
you
mowed
short
and
then
for
lye
station,
and
if
you
had
compacted
soils
because
dandelions
love
those
conditions
they
thrive
in
those
conditions.
A
A
You
know
this
is
now
a
few
years
ago,
May
June
we
had
just
a
ton
of
rain
way
more
than
William,
like
three
times
more
than
normal
and
I
had
a
neighbor
who
was
then
out
watering
right
after
we
got
like
a
2
inch
rainfall,
and
he
it
just
that's
what
he
did.
It
was
his
that's
his
schedule
and
he
didn't
need
to
do
that.
But
anyway,
I
grew
up
on
a
farm
and
everything
was
about
how
much
rain
did
we
get?
You
know
for
how
much
you
know
so.
A
I
just
always
had
rain
gauges
around
you
can
get
off
the
Weather
Underground.
You
don't
have
to
have
your
own
rain
gauge.
There's
that
great
information
that
you
can
pull
off
of
these
local
weather
stations,
these
free,
publicly
accessible
weather
stations.
You
can
also
run
weather
reports
or
tell
you
how
much
rain
have
we
got
in
the
last
week
or
month?
A
You
can
set
this
up
and
then
it
says
eighteen
point,
two
one
inches
I'm
up
again:
a
weather
nerd,
so
I
do
that
kind
of
stuff
testing
for
soil
compaction
use
a
straight
wire
flag
like
this
utility
locate
flag
to
check
your
yard.
So
once
soil
start
out,
we
don't
want
the
soil
to
be
moist,
not
really
wet
and
not
really
bone-dry.
And
you
take
this
flag
out
and
go
to
multiple
points
in
your
yard
and
see
how
far
down
you
can
push
it.
A
You
should
be
able
to
sink
this
all
the
way
down
if
you're
getting
it
to
it,
one
inch
or
two
inch,
then
you
in
multiple
spots,
you're
not
hitting
a
rock
or
wood
or
something
then
used
to
be
looking
at
core
plug
aeration
if
you're
getting
it
to
three
inches
plus
then
core
plug
duration
is
not
going
to
make
a
difference.
You
know,
because
that's
what
it's
supposed
to
deal
with
the
compaction.
A
So
how
deep
can
you
push
it
into
the
ground?
How
much
resistance
is
it?
Is
the
soil,
hard
rocky
soft
greeny?
You
can
feel
all
of
that
through
this
wire
I've
used
these
wires
a
lot,
but
I
can
feel
like
oh
yeah,
there's
a
sand
layer.
I
can
feel
it
because
you
just
you
can
it
goes
right
through
the
wire
or
it's
just
really
soft,
and
then
it's
clay.
A
So
there's
the
core
plug
aerator
pops
out
plugs
goes
about
max
3,
inches
oftentimes.
If
someone,
if
you're
paying
someone
to
aerate
your
lawn
and
they
do
it
during
a
dry
period-
oftentimes,
they
can't
even
punch
in
you'll,
find
these
plugs
that
are
maybe
an
inch
long
and
they're.
You
wasted
a
lot
of
money
they're.
A
You
know
you
want
to
sometimes
if
you're
getting
if
it's
been
dry,
that's
sometimes
that
is
also
when
I
did
water,
that
big
spike
I
watered
right
before
that
guy
showed
up
with
the
aerator
and
the
slit
cedar
because
it
was
had
been
dry.
I
wanted
the
lawn
to
be
sort
of
moist,
so
you
could
punch
in
a
little
bit
further,
but
best
time
to
air
rates
fall
you
aerate
in
the
spring,
then
you
open
up
soil
for
seed
germination,
so
dandelions
and
stuff
blowing
around
other
seeds.
A
Blowing
around
you've
made
more
growing
conditions
for
them,
so
fall.
There's
less
seeds
blowing
around
good
time
to
do
it.
It's
also
a
good
time
to
top
dress
with
compost
and
tend
to
over
seed.
At
that
point,
remember
if
you're
doing
aeration
pre
locate
flag
any
shallow,
buried,
wires
or
irrigation
heads,
because
this
will
punch
right
through
those
cable
and
telephone
are
usually
buried
the
shallowest.
So
it's
good
to
know
where
that
stuff
is
so
there's
our
core
plug
aerator.
The
hardware
stores
around
have
those
for
rent.
We
do
at
our
booth
downstairs.
A
I
have
a
list
of
I
have
a
number
of
sheets
down
there
with
different
information.
Hardware
stores
that
have
the
have
the
aerators
I
have
sources
of
like
the
compost
that
I'll
talk
about
in
a
little
bit
sources
of
everything.
This
is
what
like
in
the
city
of
Eagan,
what
they
use.
This
is
a
Toro
brand,
deep
core
aerator
that
can
go
8
to
16
inches
down.
This
is
what
some
cities
use
in
parks
to
deal
with
compaction
further
down.
You
don't
want
to
take
this,
probably
through
your
yard,
soil
sampling.
A
So
that's
using
we've
got
a
example
of
a
core
extractor
down
there
that
we
can
sort
of
loan
out
to
people,
but
usually
to
do
a
soil
sample.
You
can
use
a
trowel
or
you
can
use.
You
can
get
a
little
earth,
auger
they're
called
they're
about
five
six
bucks
for
a
little
auger.
That
goes
into
a
cordless
drill
that
you
can
do
soil
samples
with,
but
pull
out
a
sample.
In
this
case,
it's
sand,
I
mean
here
was
their
turf
grass
roots,
and
then
it's
just
all
sand
we're
looking
for
black.
A
How
much
black
is
in
here,
because
that's
the
organic
matter,
content!
That's
what
we
want.
This
is
a
very
well
drained
yard,
but
they
need
a
little
bit
more
organics
so
again,
testing.
This
is
what
we
want
to
see
this
black
here.
So
this
is
then
taking
the
soil
sample.
We
take
the
core.
We
take
the
top
about
four
inches,
pull
that
out
drop
it
in
a
bag
bunch
or
break
it
up.
A
A
These
are
some
augers
that
I
have
they're.
Pretty
heavy-duty
ones,
but
I
can
drill
down
24
30
inches
with
these
and
pull
out
soil
samples
and
just
see
how
it
changes.
But
this
is
then,
how
you
we
have
soil
for
our
soil
sample
submittal
forms
down
at
our
booth
as
well.
So
this
is
from
the
University
of
Minnesota.
This
is
where
they
recommend.
You
know
how
they
recommend,
taking
samples
where
to
take
the
samples
or
where
you
can
ship
them.
They
charge
17
dollars
per
sample.
A
They
want
you
to
fill
out
this
form
for
each
sample.
You
submit
so
one
sample
for
front
yard.
One
for
back
yard
is
a
good
way
to
go.
They
ask:
is
a
grass
watered
regularly
our
clippings
are
moved?
Is
this
a
if
it's
the
lawn?
Is
it
before
seeding
or
is
it
an
existing
lawn
and
you
fill
in
your
stuff?
They
send
back
form
like
this,
so
I'm,
looking
mainly
at
this
number
and
at
pH.
So
this
is
organic
matter
percent,
so
soil
organic
content,
2.5
down
here.
A
The
goal
for
organic
content
is
5
percent
5
to
8
percent.
So
we
need
to
take
this
up.
Then
we
can
do
some
calculations
to
figure
out
how
much
compost
we
would
need
to
raise
that
number
up,
but,
like
you
know,
they
have
zero
phosphorus
fertilizers.
Why
they
did
that.
You
know
people
argued
phosphorus
I
need
phosphorous.
If
every
sample
you
submit
phosphorus
is
going
to
be
off
the
charts
we
have
way
more
than
we
need.
That's
not
the
issue.
A
You
know
that's
driving
things,
it's
organic
matter
now
and
then
pH
can
sometimes
just
be
so
whacked
out
that
it
hurts
plant
growth
or
desirable
plant
growth,
there's
always
some
plant
that
can
grow
in
some
pretty
harsh
conditions,
but
a
lot
of
times.
It's
not
the
plants
that
we
want
there.
This
is
a
sample
from
my
yard,
so
six
and
a
half
percent.
That's
that
really
black
stuff
and
I
really
didn't
do
much
to
get
that.
I
mulch
my
leaves
so
that
I
think
I'll
shall
have
a
couple
slides
on
that.
A
A
So
compost
we've
got
handouts
down
there
with
sorts
of
compostable
in
bulk,
so
this
is
leaf.
Compost,
well-aged
leaves
and
grass
clippings
taken
to
processing
sites
that
do
all
the
processing
for
the
counties,
and
then
they
have
big
storage
yards
where
it's
available
one
site-
that's
somebody
close
to
here
is
it's
called
the
mulch
store
it's
down
by
the
landfill
in
Burnsville
off
of
Cliff
Road.
You
go
down
to
cliff
off
of
35
and
then
just
start
heading
to
the
west,
and
they
have
big
piles
of
it.
They
also
have
it
in
bags.
A
A
There's
some
contractors
that
have
power,
spreaders,
they'll
show
up
with
the
trailer
they'll
load
up
their
power
spreader
and
just
broadcast
it
over
the
top
of
the
lawn,
and
that
starts
raising
organic
matter
content.
It's
just
an
eighth
to
a
quarter
inch
layer
over
the
top
of
the
lawn
in
the
fall.
It
slowly
breaks
down
and
goes
down
through
the
turf
grass
and
into
the
soil
below
as
an
example.
This
is
a
yard.
A
They
have
5,800
square
feet
of
total
lawn
area
quarter.
Inch
depth
that
would
be
four
cubic
yards
or
four
pick
up
loads
would
be
enough
to
do
it.
Eighty
dollars
in
materials,
you
can
also
pay
this
these
companies
to
deliver
it
dump
it
on
your
driveway,
and
it's
typically
that
it's
about
80
bucks
for
a
delivery
for
that
stuff.
So
you
might
want
to
put
a
tarp
on
the
driveway
where
they
dump
it.
So
it
doesn't.
A
If
you
got
a
concrete
driveway,
so
it
doesn't
leave
a
stain
on
there,
but
that
is
that's
one
way
to
do
it.
This
was
I
was
working
with
my
kids
to
do
so.
If
you
bring
it
to
your
yard,
you
got
a
pile
in
your
driveway
or
something
you
load
it
up
into
wheel,
barrels
or
wheel
barrel,
and
then
just
take
it
around
and
make
piles
in
your
yard
and
then
using
a
rake.
A
It's
the
hard
tine
rake
flip
it
over.
So
the
hard
you
know,
the
flat
scraper
part
is
there
and
just
drag
it
out,
and
so
my
daughter
was
helpful.
My
son
was
just
digging
through
it
looking
for
worms
useless,
but
he's
getting
better
he's
getting
better
back.
So
this
is
what
it
looked
like
right
after
spreading,
and
so
that's
right
after
looking
straight
down
and
then
that
was
it
a
week
later,
it
just
is
gone,
but
it's
moved
down
below
the
turfgrass,
see
some
little
clovers
in
there.
A
Mulch
mulching
leaves
so
I
got
Norway
maple
and
two
silver
silver
maple
and
green
ash.
In
my
yard,
I
get
a
lot
of
leaf
drop,
I
just
I'm
out
there,
I
don't
wait
for
it
to
really
get
a
thick
mat
of
leaves
I
mulch
I'm
in
the
fall
I'll.
Do
it
run
over
it
with
the
mower
at
least
every
two
days
and
just
keep
it
under
control,
but
I
don't
bag
them
I
just
run
over
it
with
really
sharp
mulching
blade.
A
My
son
likes
to
help
out
too,
but
again
not
a
lot
of
help,
but
using
again
a
char
mulching
blade
it
finally
chops
the
leaves
you
might
need
to
do
two
passes
to
get
them,
get
the
chunks
really
small,
so
that
is
a
before
and
an
after
before
and
an
after
looking
straight
down,
we
want
little
pieces.
You
know
you
don't
want
to
smother
your
grass,
but
you
get
it
small
enough
and
it's
just
gonna
work
its
way
down
in
between
the
blades
one
alternatives
so
ideal
grass
for
Minnesota
is
this.
A
Fine
fescue
deeper
root
system
doesn't
grow
as
fast
as
Kentucky
bluegrass
doesn't
need
the
water.
The
Kentucky
bluegrass
needs
deeper
rut.
Growth
is
more
drought,
tolerant,
mainly
the
fine
fescues
are
creeping
red,
fescue
scuse.
You
want
to
check
the
mix
and
make
sure
it's
got
creeping
red,
fescue
zin
it.
If
you
go
sometimes
to
like
a
hardware
store
and
say
I
want
a
fescue
mix.
They'll
give
you
a
tall
fescue
mix,
and
you
don't
want
that
for
your
lawn
to
form
a
turf,
a
lot
of
times.
A
Tall
fescue
is
our
clump
forming
and
they
want
to
grow
taller.
Fine
fescues,
especially
the
creeping
red
fescue,
is
our
sod
forming.
They
crawl
out
rise
ominously.
They
help
exclude
dandelions
and
other
things
like
that
and
they've.
It's
a
nice
grass
so
again
much
deeper
root
system
than
Kentucky
bluegrass,
Kentucky
bluegrass
is
going
to
be
in
about
in
here.
It's
not.
This
is
not
available
as
a
sod,
because
it's
got
too
deep
of
a
root
system.
Sod
it
it's
Kentucky
bluegrass
works
ideal
as
Assad,
because
it
never
can
develop
a
deep
Brut
system.
A
They
can
go
out
with
the
big.
You
know
what
the
sod
farms
cut.
It
out,
really
easy
and
it
lives.
You
know
for
a
while
and
the
roll
it's
just
like
a
chia
pet.
You
know
sort
of
a
thing.
Just
you
could
growing
grass
on
rocks.
You
can
do
it.
You
can
go
grass
on
rocks
if
you
put
enough
water
on
it,
you
know,
but
that
is
not
suitable
for
areas
where
you've
got
you.
A
A
It's
just
gonna,
just
gonna
sort
of
live,
but
if
you
want
a
regular
want
your
lawn
to
look
more
like
a
regular
lawn
than
those
periodic
mowings,
but
again
every
time
you
mow
a
grass
mow,
a
turf,
you're
stressing
it
out.
So
you
just
want
to
my
times
that
you're
mowing
clover
is
creeping
clovers,
not
a
bad
thing.
This
is
my
part
of
my
lawn
looking
straight
down.
This
is
also
borders
on
the
narrow
strip.
With
my
neighbor,
who.
B
A
It
and
he
sprays
his
yard,
but
he
doesn't
have
kids
anymore
he's.
You
know
you
have
to
use
like
a
242
spray
to
kill
a
broadleaf
that
has
a
I
grew
up
in
a
farm
and
I
applied
a
lot
of
chemicals
and
I.
Don't
yeah
I
it
volatize
'as.
You
can
smell
it
for
weeks,
just
coming
off
of
the
turf
and
I
was
having
kids
and
I
knew
they're
gonna
be
crawling
on
the
lawn
and
stuff
and
I.
A
Just
I'm
done
with
that
part
will
pluck
out
occasionally
dandelions
out
of
respect
to
some
of
our
neighbors.
That
will
just
use
got
a
decent
Fiskars
extraction
tool
that
works
pretty
awesome,
but
this
is
what
it
looks
like
straight
down,
but
this
is
what
it
looks
like
across
it.
You
can't
even
see
it
it.
The
creeping
professor
or
the
creeping
clovers,
never
breach
the
surface.
You
know
over
the
top
of
the
turf,
so
it's
only
my
neighbor,
that's
right
here.
That
knows
it's
there.
A
A
I
think
most
cities
raise
that
now
it's
in
the
seven
or
eight
inches,
yeah,
yeah
and
I,
don't
I
can't
say
for
sure
on
Bloomington
Bloomington
might
be
six,
but
I
mean
in
this
stuff.
You
you
can
do
that
in
the
backyard
or
some
side
areas,
but
in
your
main
yard
area.
Then
then
it's
like
a
once
you're
mowing,
though,
then
it's
a
good
time.
I
found
out
I
have
to
do
I
get
gas
from
my
mower
in
the
spring
and
then
just
put
the
stable
in
it
right
away.
A
Cuz
I'm,
not
using
much
gas
I,
don't
want
my
gas
to
go
bad
yarrow.
Lawns
are
also
great
for
compacted
soils
like
out
by
the
curb,
if
you
have
salt
damaged.
So
you
know
from
salt
spray
from
from
just
snow,
plowing
operations
or
snow
out
ice
removal.
This
can
tolerate
that
really
well
working
in
high
salinity
soils
compacted
soils.
It
does
well
in
clays,
but
this
you
do
have
to
mow
periodically
because
it's
gonna
try
to
grow
taller,
but
it's
an
awesome
sod
forming
plant.
A
We
had
this
in
our
yard
at
the
farm,
our
house
was
in
it.
What
used
to
be
a
pasture?
It
was
built
in
76
and
then
it
we
didn't
seed.
Anything
we
just
started
mowing
stuff,
and
so
my
mom
was
the
main
mower
and
she
would
drop
the
mowing
blade
down
all
the
way
or
the
deck
would
be
at
1
inch,
one
and
a
half.
She
wanted
to
look
like
a
golf
course
and
she
would
kill
everything
we
didn't
have
an
irrigation
system.
A
She
would
mow
during
July,
where
you
know
haven't
had
rain
for
weeks,
she'd
mow
everything
would
be
dead,
except
for
this,
and
this
was
so
comfortable
to
walk
on
my
brother
and
I
would
plan
at
Barefoot.
It's
just
like
a
bunch
of
tiny
little
ferns,
but
super
nice
little
grass,
not
grass
super
nice
little
lawn
plant.
Other
tips
avoid
mowing
during
droughts,
so,
like
I,
mentioned,
keep
Des
Moines,
blade
sharp
loose
and
come
back
to
the
soils
irrigation,
don't
water,
the
road
there's
all
these
wonderful
things,
I
have
just
run
out
of
time.
A
There's
now
I
got
to
show
you
these
things,
irrigation
controllers
that
are
Wi-Fi
connected
to
get
weather
data.
That's
the
thing
now
that
everybody,
if
you've,
got
an
irrigation
system
and
automatic
irrigation
system,
please
switch
out
your
control
to
a
smart
unit
if
it's
got
access
to
Wi-Fi,
they're,
relatively
inexpensive,
so
they're
about
$200.
But
it
knows
it's
like
the
those
smart
thermostats.
You
know
all
the
other
smart
technologies
it
just
it
knows.
If
rain
is
coming,
it
knows
if
rain
has
been
here
and
then
it
will
tweak
its
its
programming.
A
C
C
A
I
mean
they're
they're,
looking
for
grubs
and
there's
if
what
I've
seen
within
the
fine
fescue
lawn.
So
under
you
see
more
mold
issues
under
Kentucky
bluegrass
lawns
than
you
do
under
fescues,
there's
just
more
rut
mass
there
to
sort
of
hold
things
together,
they're
just
always
going
to
be
around
unless
you're
constantly
poisoning
them.
You
know
trapping
them.
I'm.