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that fit the eleMents
properly. Pots and pans
with straight sides, •
flat bottoms, and tightly
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Snow mold causes
lawn trouble Sugar and Spice
c, by Bill Smiley
This may seem an odd time. of year for it,
but I'm being torn between two old adages.
That is better than being torn between to
old harridans, .but not much.
At my--age; of course, the chances of
being torn between two young harridani is
r ether Slight.
As a Inatter of fact, there hasn't even
been much of a line-up of old harridans
lately, so I guess l'li have to settle for those
two old adages.
One of them goes thus: "There's no fool
like an old foal." As adages go, it fills the
bill. It is short, blunt, and, if you happen to
be au old fool; brutal. I don't like that one
Much.
The other one ays: "There's many a
'good tune pla d on an old fiddle." This is
also short and, to the point. It is usually
delivered with a wink and 'a leer by some
-old fool of either sex, speaking of which,
that is what it usually refers to. 1 like that
one better than the first, though I am not
given to leering'or winking. Not for years.
Anyway, to get to the heart of the
matter, I've taken up cross-country skiing
and those ancient adages ride with m e,
oneGh each ski. They are heavy, as, well as,
old.
When 1 state that I have' taken up
cross-country skiing, I must confess that it
is not a reciprocal deal. I have taken it up
only once, and it has taken me down more
times than I care to contemplate.
But that's beside the point,
Cross-country skiing is not for everybody,
though you'd never know it ,on a Sunday
afternoon.
No, it's really a sport for us romantics.
the few of us left who are loners, who have
a fierce. overwhelming urge to pit our
muscles and will against a fierce and alien
Nature.
Even before I strapped on the skis, I
knew would love it. Pictures rolled
through my mind like a film, with me in the
major role. Gliding, swift and silent, along
a lonely winter trail. Slipping through the
stilly woods lik,e a wraith. Stopping on' a
peak for a belt of brandy and a munch of
bread and cheese, before plunging,
eager-eyed, ' into 'the terrible, h urtling
danger .below.
It's a tough world for us romantics. For
some reason, the picture seldom lives up to
the advance notices.
I didn't exactly glide, not at first. I sort of
shuffled, _rather like an old man with a
'double case of gout, Nor was the trail really
lonely. Not if you count dogs, little
children, and old ladies who came up from
behind, shouting, "Track!"' and went by
me, as though I were standing still. Which 1
was, a good deal of the time. _
Stopping on a peak'for a bracing solitary
brandy is also a little difficult, when the
only peak for miles around is about eight
feet high, and is already populated by
eleventy-eeven of .your friends, every last
One of whom loves .brandy, but' doesn't
have any with him.
Nbt to mention those woods. It's hard to
keep them stilly, when every.time you get
anywhere near a tree, 'everyone in, sight
shouts; '.`Timber-r-r!"
Kilbarchan Notes
When we think Of "mold" we
usually think of the green or blaek
molds (fungi)that grow on fruits:
. vegetables and other food pro-
ducts when these are kept too
long under warm, damp condi-
tions. These molds do not grow
on products which are properly
refrigerated.
In contrast, the "snqw molds"
which . cause, the snbw mold
disease in turf grass are cold
loving fungi. They, grow best at
temperatures near freezing, and
are called snow molds because
they do most of their damage
,under heavy snow cover.
Snow molds damage turf grass
usually under snow cover from
December to April, especially as
the snow is melting., but sourer'
times in the absence of snow
during prolonged periods of cold,
wet weather. Most severe
damage occurs under snow drifts,
footpaths, ski tracks, and other
areas where the snow is com-
pacted. Under such areas the
grass may be completely killed,
whereas* normally only the tops
are killed, and the grass recovers
soon after good growing condi-
tions prevail in the spring.
This is 'the reason why the
snowmobile is the golf course
superintendent's deadly enemy.
The effect of a snowmobile
crossing a green over the snow in
the winter will usually be evident
well into the next suremer owing
to the increased snow mold
injury.
Why is Snow Mold Increasingly
TroubleSome? ,
I. Winter activities (involving
snowmobiles, cross-country skis,
etc.) are great but they have no
place on lawns and well-managed
fine turf grass areas. The coarser
'grasses .of meadows, and wood-
lands are much more hardy and
do not suffer from this kind of
injury.
2. There is a tendency tie use
too much nitrogenous fertilizers
in an effort to maintain linuriant
green grass late into, the fall.
Succulent green grass is
extremely susceptible to snow
mold injury.
3. There is increasingly more
land area devoted to the cultiva7.
tion of fine,turf grass as a basis
for good landscaping and for
recreation such as lawn bowling,
.etc.
•What Do,.We Po About It?
1. Keep people,, vehicles, etc.
off fine turf • grass ,:areas during
winter, to, avoid 'compaction of
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snow.
2. Prevent accumulation of
compacted snow in the harm of "
snowdrifts by using snow fences,
or other means to divert snow
drifting away from fine turf grass
areas. If snowdrifts do. form,
disperse them as soon as they
begin to melt. Greatest damage
occurs at the wet soil surface
under the melting snow. ,
3. As soon as the snow melts,
remove dead grass and debris,
and break up any moldy crust to
facilitate rapid drying. 'Drying -
arrests growth-of the fungus' and
accelerates recovery of the grass.
4. Do not apply nitrogenous
fertilizers in the autum.. No
nitrogen should be applied later
than about mid-September, and
this preferably in a balanced
mixture with the other nutrients'
to encourage hardening-off
before winter.
S. Keep grass cut to recom-
mended height throughout the
autumn' until growth ceases. If
possible, • remove cut grass to
reduce the amount of debris on
the surface. Long grass and
debris provide!xcellent conditions
for growth and development of
the snow mold fungi.
6. Where snow mold is a
perennial problem, and good
quality' turf is desired early in the
spring, the use of fungicides in
late autumn is recommended.
Recommendations usually read
"as late as possible before
permanegt snowfall". Experience
'has shown, that any time in.
November is. suitable under most
Ontario cliclitions.•
Because there are two kinds of
snow molds in Ontario and the
recommended fungicides do 'not
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another Briefly, Gray Snow Mold
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is most common. It is also'called
Snow Scald. and Typhula' Blight
and Is. caused by the fungus
Typhula itoana. This disease
developS under snow cover only,
and is seen after the snow melts
in the form of roughly circular,
bleached-brown td gray areas up
to one foot in diameter, often with
a grayish-white mold forming a
crust on the injured, surface,
Patches may overlap to form
larger, irregular damaged areas.
The second form is Pink Snow
Mold or Fusarium Patch caused
by the fungus Fusarium nivale.
This disease also develops under
snow cover but not necessarily, so.
It also causes damage during
prolonged cold wet weather in
late fall and early spring. The
injured patches are usually
smaller than those of Typhula
Blight, ofther have a distinct
brownish margin and a whitish-
pink crust of moldy growth on the
surface.
Some fupgicides, such as
Daconil (chlorothalonil) and those
containing mercury, do a reason-
ably good job of controlling both.
Tersan SP (chloroneb) is excellent
for Typhula Blight but not for
Fusarium Patch. Tersan 1991
(benemyl) does a good job .on
Fusarium Patch but is not good
for Typhula Blight. Always
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Check- the door seal.
Qlose the door on a piece of paper.
If you can pull it out easily -the gasket
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keep your pots and
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This will allow you
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I have taken up other sports ; like golf and
curling, and have learned that unless he is
extremely vigilant, the beginner may
develop some bad habits which are hard to
shake,.
1 was determined that this would not
happen with skiing. On my very first time
out, !thought 1 was developing-a bad habit.
My left ski seemed to want to veer to the
left, and my right ski to the right. This
seems logical enough, but, it was not
conducive to skimming along. the trail,
especially when the skis took turns falling
off the boots.
Quickly. I checked' the harness. Sure
enough, the chap from whom I'd bought
the outfit had put it on cockeyed. My toes
fitted into it, but my heels didn't even
touch the skis. They were dragging in the
snow. Right there, I ,decided to Raise.Cain
with the installer. '
Fortunately, a friend came along. When
he noticed that my skis seemed to want to
go, in opposite directions, he suggested
that I had them on the wrong feet, This was
patently ridiculous. A ski is a ski and a foot
is a foot. But he persevered. Sure enough, „
the ski I'd had on my right foot was marked
with a large L, for Left; and vice versa.
Once that bad habit was resolved, I was
,skimming along like a bird,. Dodo?
I had a couple ofuther bad habits, but I
solved them swiftly. One Was jabbing my
ski pole into my ski instead of into the
snow. This tended to throw me off my
stride, not to mention off my feet. I put a
stop to this by wrapping the- sharp tips of
the poles in wads of fbam rubber. They:re .
not much good in snow, but it's a lot easier
on the skis.
Another,was a habit of making the sign
of the cross with my skis. This seemed to
bring about a precipitation, or downfall. I
solved this by cutting off my skis right in
▪ front of my boots: i hardly ever get them
crossed any more.
Some people have trouble getting up
hills. I don't. f use• the Doppelganger
method (hapds and knees).
All in all, it's a fine; bracing sport. Here
and now, in public print, I am ready to take
on anybody over a SO-meter course.
Anyone 'under four or over 80.
There are only a couple of things I don't
like about it. One is my wife. When I get
200 yards behind her, she stops and waits
for me.When I get to where she is, on my
last breath, she's had a five-minute rest,
and takes off.
Another thing, more embarrassing than
otherwise, occurs when I get off the trail
and hide behind a tree, trying to get the
blood out 'of my eyes and my heart out of
my, ears.
A couple_of..,y:.o g'punks sail by, and I,
4 overhear, , it, used to be stilly in
these woods, but nowadays there seem to
be ge eat: noisy gusts' of wind."'Little dO
they know it's only old Smiler trYin-gto get
his breath back, .
I've come to a. decision'. Either I quit •
smoking "or I quit skiing.
Anybody interested in a pair of almost
brand-new cross-country, skis? ”,
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