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Subject: Re: to new gardener - juilo
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 18:16:00 EDT
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About the lawn:  use a fertilizer with 50% organic content.  It will slow
down the release of nitrogen, giving you healthier plants and also giving
less shock to the beneficial bacteria and worms in your soil.  Water your
lawn once a week for one hour (or one inch of rainfall, if you can measure
it.)  If you don't want to water, don't fertilize until labor day.  At that
time you can also put down a general purpose dry weed killer with your lawn
spreader.  Grass grows better in cool weather than hot, so go with the flow
and let it dry up in the summer, then help it out in September, when it can
choke out the weeds, whose lives are waning anyway.

Bob Schwanke

Siemens Research
Princeton, NJ
08540-6668

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