Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-22 | Page 10 | Abracadabra for Getting Rid of Weeds is Hard Labor

Abracadabra for Getting Rid Riel Of Weeds Weds Is IS' Hard Labor By MAUD CHEGWIDDEN Tel Telegram gram Garden Editor The dandelion problem seems to trouble more amateur gardeners gardeners gardeners gar gar- than almost anything else Letters reach me continually asking for a way way usually usually an easy way way of of getting this weed out of lawns I am sorry that I cant can't give you you- an abracadabra which you OU could mutter over your dandelions so that they would shrivel up and die instantly Nothing but hard work will keep a lawn free from weeds and such sucha a persistent perennial as the dandelion dandelion dande dande- lion will wUl take constant watching constant digging out if you are determined to free your lawn from It entirely Also frequent and regular regular reg reg- ular fertilizing will be needed in 1 order to build up the ground on which the Jawn lawn grows and to keep leep keepit it at a high degree of fertility Here however is a short cut to a less lawn one which is used in English gardens but which so far as I know has not been commonly com corn mony used locally English Method Buy half a pound of sodium chlorate chlorate chlorate chlo chlo- rate and mix it with a gallon of cold water Take an ice pick a metal meat skewer or a similar tool and after dipping the sharp metal into the sodium chlorate plunge it jt into tho next dandelion and so on Each dandelion so treated treated treated treat treat- ed will wither and die root branch and all This is perhaps a tedious method but its it's a sure one After Atter every dandelion has been killed it wIllbe will willbe be easy to keep down those which grow from seeds carried there by bythe bytho bytho tho the wind If it you are on their trail immediately without letting Jetting them accumulate before you start art the attack at at- tack Commercial fertilizers are unexcelled unexcelled celled for lawn use provided you apply them proper properly 1 There arc are spreaders on the market affairs mounted on two wheels wheel which you push over the lawn and which re release release re- re lease commercial fertilizers in the proper proportion as their wheels revolve The cost of one of these isn't yer much and nd If It you ou have you I ap-I large largo large lawns you will vili greatly ap appreciate ap- ap predate such an instrument Fertilize Regularly At regular intervals through the summer a dressing of such a a. balanced balanced balanced bal bal- chemical fertilizer should be spread over the grass Never do this when the lawn is wet either from rain or r from the hose Apply it dry then water in so 51 that it dissolves dissolves dissolves dis dis- dis- dis solves and feeds the grass roots without remaining on the top to be blown away or possibly to scorch the blades of grass There Is al always always always al- al ways some danger attached to use of such a plant food unless you are extremely careful Steamed is a good standby for everything in the garden garden garden gar gar- den and especially for lawns It enriches soil with no possibility whatever of ot injuring through burning burning burning burn burn- ing or scorching It is slow Inaction in inaction inaction action while chemical fertilizers are quick Use these things regularly and your turf will gradually be thickened so that there will be no room for dandelions or any other v weed