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Originally Posted by Garywt
Not sure how many gallons but I just upped my time to about 15 minutes twice a week. First setting does the grass and second setting does the bushes. Anything longer just runs down the street.
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Mostly all of us have sandy CLAY, "soil?" It may not be able to absorb water as quickly as you apply it. Simple to check. Stab a shovel and see how deep the soil is wet. It should be down about 8 inches. Likely, for most of us that is not the case. The solution is to add organic matter. Since you do not want to remove your sod and replace your entire lawn after improving the soil the other way is a lot of work but you do not need to do it all at once. A bit nuts, I drilled holes down 8 inches every 6 inches in my lawn and
filled each hole with manure. My lawn is 5,000 sq feet. It is a lot of work. I use far less water than neighbors. My improved soil holds far more water. Aside. roughly 70 50 lb bags in my 5,000 sq foot lawn 3500 pounds.