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Show HELPFUL HINTS ON HAVING cy3 Healthy Qarden HOW HIGH IS YOUR LAWN I.Q.? drought than are others. At peak season, any flourishing lawn will need about an inch of water per week either by stored moisture in the soil or by rainfall, if the lawn is to be kept attractive. Actually, keeping your Of course, regular mowing, weed elimination and fertilizing fer-tilizing are also very important, impor-tant, to give richer color and vigorous growth. And if insects in-sects are bugging your grass, you should treat periodically. peri-odically. An effective all-purpose, all-purpose, insecticide, such as Spectracide , can control important lawn pests such as chinchbugs, armyworms, sod inchworms and grubs, and can be used in your vegetable garden as well. Surprising to many homeowners home-owners is that the water Many American homeowners home-owners may not realize it, but if they keep their lawns mowed low, their lawn I.Q. may not be very high. Though there are some lawns that benefit from low mowing (bent grasses and Bermuda grasses, for example), reasonably high mowing generally will benefit bene-fit your grass. That's because be-cause more green leaf is retained and this is the food-making resource of your grass. Interestingly, it has been found that disease is less severe and weeds fewer in a tall-mowed turf than in a short-clipped one. One of the reasons for this is that the roots below the ground correspond to top growth above ground. This means that taller-mowed grass will root more deeply and be able to reach a greater soil mass for moisture and nutrients. What makes a lawn look good? Good, dense planting, uniformity and rich color. |