Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-10 | Page 14 | Water on Lawns

WATER ON LAWNS By D. E. COOMBS, Garden Expert. THAT the patriotic citizens of Salt Lake who have war gardens do not appreciate the seriousness of the water situation is evident. It is safe to say there are no lawns in the city that have needed water since the last storm on Decoration day, yet 90 per cent of them have been soaked every day since. i One of the best ways to conserve the water supply is to keep as much j of the water as possible in the ground, not allow it to come out and escape in the air. This can be done by maintaining a nice mulch on the surface of the ground and this mulch is most easily obtained on lawns by allowing the lawn clippings to remain where they are cut. If they are cut frequently, say twice a week, the beautiful appearance of the lawns is not interfered with and the lawn is much improved. In the course of a year or two, instead in-stead of a scant lawn poorly fertilized, you have a nice, springy, luxuriant, growth. It has been thoroughly demonstrated that lawns so treated thrive when watered but twice each week during the long hot days of midsummer.