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Name: Keith Markensen
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The age of “temporary soil sterilization” or “soil fumigants” which can be safely used by the home gardener has long passed. These chemicals were designed to make your gardening easier and more enjoyable by killing weed seeds, certain plant disease organisms and nematodes in the soil. However, this does not mean we cannot learn about the pests soil fumigants controlled.
Serenity is the keynote of this beautifully landscaped garden.
Some efficiency expert is always talking about “killing two birds with one stone.” I’d like to dispatch a couple of rabbits with one rock. Right now there is bountiful food for them everywhere, but they insist on nibbling at the geraniums.
Too many people in the North believe that lawn making is mainly a springtime activity and not many know that late summer is a very good time to come to the aid of an established lawn or build a new one. The weather is ideal for grass seed germination starting early in August in the far North and a week later for each hundred miles southward.