Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-15 | Page 15 | Put on the Covers, Tuck Lawn in for Winter Sleep

Put On the Covers Tuck Tuel Lawn wn In for Winter Sleep SleepS c A v S SS' SS r By MAUD S f Telegram Garden Editor EditorS S S There There will not not b be much more growth of grass of-grass grass now that the nights night are bringing us touches of frost so the am amateur gardener may say farewell for the winter to his lawn mower mower and and prepare to treat his lawn now now for results next sorine sprin and summer S I always allow the clippings from 4 my lawn mower to remain as they fall because I k know ow that in taking t them hem up I am depriving my grass of of a cheap and excellent f fertil i izer zer But many city gardeners object object object ob ob- ob- ob t to the rather untidy appearance the dying fragments give their lawns for a day or two and so remove them If It you you are one of these however you should at least permit the clippings to remain as they fall now in giving the lawn its last cutting Dont Don't Use Chemicals ChemIcal At this time time of year you may spread a layer of old barnyard fertilizer fer fer- fertilizer fer- fer over your lawn but dont don't use the quick-acting quick chemical foods because their effects which are almost almost almost al al- al- al most instant stimulation of the J plants lants would be wasted Save them I for or spring Stable manure gives the lawn an amount of humus along with its food Humus you know i is decayed vegetable matter and this Is an absolute necessity of the fertile soil Leaf mold is pure humus and so is peat moss Barnyard manure contains contains contains con con- large amounts of it too The theory Is often advanced that thai one gets weeds from an application of this natural fertilizer and it is true in some instances But any such fertilizer applied to your garden garden garden gar gar- den should be two or three years old and then there Is not much chance of the weed seeds germinating ing if they are present Sheep manure is the best one can use on a lawn not only for its conten conten conten con con- ten of the chemicals which all al plants require but because the sheep so grinds up its food that weed seeds are disposed of If this Is not available le old cow manure serves very welL Screen Top Dressings All such natural top dressings for the fawn lawn should be screened in order to remove large clods stones sticks and other extraneous mat mat- ter However the sno frosts of winter will usually break up too large portions of the top dressing and th then n in early spring you may maj easily pulverize them theta with the rake or hoe By the time the growing season comes next year this manure should have lave sunk down to the grass roots and if it it was screened before applying applying apply- apply ing ng there will be nothing to rake away Bone meal i added at the same ame time will have giyen up its quota of plant food during the winer winter winter win- win ter er and nd the grass will be ready to ta gr grow w thickly and to present a healthy green Lawns that are arc S yearly given a a treatment like this with a few regular applications o oi of ammonium sulphate or other chemical chem chem- ical cal foods during the summer summer positively ively must be good ones