Sharing my passion for plants,and all things that are green and good with some tips on how to keep them that way. Really cool ideas that make your garden glow
Friday, September 21, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
WEEDS? WHAT WEEDS?
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| My lawn is just 'dandy' (lion)! |
So we can all agree we hate to pull weeds. Who has time? It
is FOOTBALL season! But we all can also
agree that having weeds in dormant brown grass looks crass. Do your neighbors
roll their eyes at the carpet of purple flowers in your yard come early spring?
Do you lower your head and mumble I meant for that to happen because I don’t
like a brown lawn? Do you look at your
neighbor’s pristine beautiful weed free lawn and feel somehow lacking in the
domestic bastion of lawn maintenance? Fear not! Suffer no more from lawn envy. I am gonna make your day brighter. With a
little information and effort on your part you can become the landscaping king/queen.
I see ‘Yard of the Month’ in your future. OK are you ready for the BIG SECRET
to no more weeds? Go out and buy some
pre-emergent today. Put down your pre-emergent with a target date between now
and September 15th. You got
this! Read the label carefully for your type of grass and use the recommended
dosage. Please, please read the label carefully. I saw a huge lawn, deader than Osama, with a
heart broken teary-eyed weekend warrior out standing in his field of nightmare because…he didn’t read the label! Pre-emergent
stops the germinating process before the
weed can set roots. POST emergent weed
killer (like weed-b-gone) kills the living weed. Learn the difference by
READING the label. Next week we will go into some of the different types of
weed killer, and maybe some of the challenges of killing specific winter
weeds. But for now if you need more
information on what to look for, give me a shout out and I will be happy to
help. Now go forth and prosper Lawn King/Queen!
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| You CAN do it! |
Friday, September 14, 2012
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