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Green grass for less cash: Use measured approach to lawn watering.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Cindy Hoedel
"How much rain do you think we got?"
You know it's coming. You don't get through spring without hearing the question a couple of times.
And while it's fun to be able to answer, "Seven-sixteenths of an inch," that's not the only benefit of having a rain gauge.
A better reason to get one, lawn care professionals say, is to control how much water (and, by extension, cash) you are pumping onto your grass during the growing season. The results might surprise you.
"Most people overwater their lawns," says turf specialist Dave Fearis of PBI/Gordon, a Kansas City, Mo., manufacturer of turf products. "Their water ...
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