Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site gypsy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!siemens!gypsy!rws From: rws@gypsy.UUCP Newsgroups: net.garden Subject: Re: to new gardener - juilo Message-ID: <25900014@gypsy.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 18:16:00 EDT Article-I.D.: gypsy.25900014 Posted: Mon Jul 15 18:16:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 06:48:48 EDT References: <768@aluxe.UUCP> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:aluxe:-76800:gypsy:25900014:000:740 Nf-From: gypsy!rws Jul 15 18:16:00 1985 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 seismo!princeton!siemens!rws