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" Lawn Care Needs Balanced Program

Caring for your lawn should provide pleasure, not pain and while some people want to work on their grass every day. others may not have the time or the inclination. The key to success, no matter what your maintenance approach, is to have a balanced program of lawn care. For example, a lawn that is watered and fertilized regularly will have fewer problems with weeds and disease However, it also will grow faster and require more frequent mowing. So. if you don't want to mow a lot. cut down on watering and fertilizing. LAWNS NEED to be watered when the soil begins to dry out. The signs of this are when the grass has a blue-green or smokey ^ tinge and footmarks stay instead of disappearing right away. The best time to water is early morning. The soil should be moistened to A depth of six to eight inches. To test the effectiveness of watering, wait 12 hours after you water and then poke a screwdriver into the ground. If it goes down about six inches without much resistance, then the lawn is probably wet enough. HOW OFTEN a lawn should be cut depends on the type of grass, your watering and fertilization routine, and the time of Aear ^ During very hot weather, lawns can go as long as three weeks without mow ing. In the spring and fall, weekly cuttings are probably needed in most areas of the country. FERTILIZING provides lawns with many required nutrients. The best bet is to select a so-called "complete" fertilizer which contains the three primary nutrients — nitrogen, phosphate and potassium.

Bags of fertilizer display the percentages they contain of the elements, as in 24-4-8. The first listing is nitrogen, followed by phosphate and potassium in that order FOR MOST LAWNS, the first number should be three times higher than the second, and the third should be double the second. However, local climate, soil conditions and J other factors may call for i different ratios While proper watering. i mowing and fertilizing will | help curb most weed pro- ij blems in lawns, insects are J: another matter and rpay • rquire the use of an J insecticide. i i

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