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Show and Garden Edition, Spring 1981 m Keeping the lawn in shape Spring is the time to prepare lawns for the summer season and proper spring care can go a long way toward improving your lawn. This is particularly true in the arid environment of Carbon County, according to Utah State University extension agents. The spring lawn provement im- program must be started early in order to encourage growth and development of dense sod of parennial grasses before the onset of hot weather. Bare or very thin areas should be reseeded as surface. of the bluegrass i i KMT and Service Porteble Chemical Toilet- i- Septic Tenki Cleaned Commercial or one-four- cool-seas- th inch. Sunny lawns may be reseeded with a variety noro-noo- m Industrial Rolling watering such a seeded surface provides ideal coverage of the seed. The seed should not be covered to a depth of more than SERVING Carbon & Emery The ONLY. ..GENUINE five percent red fescue and twenty five to fifty percent bluegrass. For reseeding, use one to two pounds per one thousand feet. Lawns may be established in the spring with perennial grasses; however, it is not a good time to seed new lawns with grasses because of the competition from summer weeds, drought and high temperatures. Spring or early summer is a good time to establish new lawns with warm-seaso-n grasses. The seedbed for new lawns should be prepared early (February-March- ) and fifteen to twenty pounds per one thousand soon as the soil thaws in the spring. The areas to be reseeded should be raked vigorously or the soil loosened by some other tool. Seeding is done best on a roughened Kentucky mentioned above although a mixture containing bluegrass and red fescue is desirable on deep sandy soils. A good Residential W 637-459- 6 shady lawn mixture contains fifty to seventy Use a leaf rake for debris, but an iron rake to scratch up the soil surface before seeding. or inches for zoysia and square feet of to one inch a similar type of fertilizer should be applied for bermuda lawns. Lawns should be previous to seeding or mowed frequently so that planting. d Temporary summer not more than lawns may be established of the total leaf is anytime in the spring by removed at any one time. planting four to five Frequent mowing at the pounds of annual or proper height is less perennial ryegrass per injurious to the grass feet. In the than the shock of cutting fall, the area is reworked off long growth less and seeded to perennial frequently. On lawns that are grasses. 10 three-fourt- hs one-thir- 1 IN HIGH PERFORMANCE RADIALS. "The Mudder" Complete Line one-thousa- The first radial TO59SK mud tire The and ground grabbing Passenger Car Radial Mud-Terrai- mi n TA? iPGcodrich Quicker steering response and prof I Electric Spin Balancing Financing Available watering of are well established. On established lawns water should not be applied until the grass shows signs of wilting and then the soil should be thoroughly watered to a depth of six inches or more. Frequent, light watering results in shallow rooting and encourages better ride qualities than bias ply mud tires. Excellent traction in muddy off road conditions. Complete Brake Service Wheel Alignments Retreads & Used Tires Frequent often mowed enough, the seeding with a fine clippings need not be spray should be prac- removed and will ticed until the seedlings disappear by the next day, thus, adding organic matter to the soil. If mowing is delayed so long that bunches of clippings remain the day after cutting the clippings should be removed so as not to smother the Excessive grass. amounts of clippings may also favor the fungus spread of disease diseases and weeds. organisms. lawn Good early in the spring may be helpful to management will greatly firm the soil around the aid in controlling many grass plants that may weeds in lawns. Select Rolling have heaved. Roll the lawn when the soil is moist but not soggy. Some irregularities 0 Custom Uhcels smoothed surface may be adapted and lawn seed; grasses fertilize, water, and mow on the basis of improved cultural practices. out, but Herbicides are valuable remember rolling is not a tools to supplement other means of leveling the practices and are not lawn. substitutes for them. of The deterioration many lawns is due to MORTGAGE PAYMENTS According to an annual mowing. too Mowing closely survey conducted by The weakens the plants, Family Housing Bureau, as 0 SEiocEi improper Absorbers 0 Batteries causes shallow rooting, recently as 1977, monthly lowers resistance to mortgage payments ac- drought, increases susceptibility to disease and encourages thinning of the grass and invasion of weeds. HmU SGCIft7QG 200 E. Main 637-248- 0 Start mowing the lawn in the spring soon after the grass reaches the recommended mowing height of one and a half or two inches for bluegrass, fescue, and ryegrass and s to two three-fourth- counted for 25 percent of a familys monthly income. This percentage has often been thought to be a prudent limit when budgeting a new or used home purchase. Since that time, however, monthly mortgage pay- ments have steadily increased as a percentage of monthly income. In 1978, payments were 26 percent of monthly income, 28.2 percent in 1979 and 32.4 percent in 1980. |