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Show Gardening can be enjoyable to the modern-day home planner brown. The blades should be made of high carbon or alloy al-loy steel which makes them rugged so they won't chip when they hit a rock and hard, so that when the blades are sharpened, they will stay sharp for a long time. You can make and enjoy a garden that's a beautiful frame for your home with a little patience, a lot of enthusiasm enthu-siasm and these few pointers. Don't plant too deep. Small flower or vegetable seeds only need to be covered, when re-seeding re-seeding bare patches in your lawn, loosen two inches of soil fertilizer and sow. Too much fertilizer is much worse than using too little, so follow directions on the package pack-age of a reliable manufacturer. manufactur-er. Overwatering washes nutrients nutri-ents out of the soil and helps spread fungi. Let , your turf dry almost to the wilting point between waterings, and then soak it to a depth of six inches. in-ches. Mow your lawn, but don't "scalp" it. Set your mower at one and a half inches high; j mow whenever the grass gets over two inches. If mower blades get dull, they'll split the tops, causing them to turn |