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Speaker 1: For professional landscapers like Michael Colburn, autumn is grass time.

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Speaker 2: It is the best time to grow graph it's cool temperatures.

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Speaker 2: We can get a lot of moisture and capture a

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Speaker 2: lot of that moisture where it doesn't evaporate off like

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Speaker 2: it does in the summer.

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Speaker 1: In the spring, the owner of Five Elements Property Maintenance

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Speaker 1: and Construction says, there are still plenty of things you

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Speaker 1: can do to set up your lawn for springtime success,

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Speaker 1: like keeping the fallen leaves from carpeting it, giving it

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Speaker 1: plenty of fertilizer, and yes, mowing it.

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Speaker 2: You run a little bit shorter. It allows some growth

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Speaker 2: in the spring. You know a lot of people are

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Speaker 2: starting to go. No mo may to allow the bees

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Speaker 2: and everything else to create, and so it may allow

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Speaker 2: you to allow your grass to grow a little bit

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Speaker 2: longer without you touching it.

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Speaker 1: The right pH balance is also important, Colbert says. Home

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Speaker 1: testing kits are available at your hardware or gardening store

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Speaker 1: or better yet, called in the pros. Kendall built WBZ,

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