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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-09-17, Page 19• 00001,0' a t If your lawn looked like this lest Juneyou can do something In time for fall about it now. Weeding and feeding lawn BY A..R. BUCKLEY clover and the other species if-newclumps of- dandeiions - quickly and easily.' - ---orunsightly-patches-of cloveroy - The -weeds-usually' 'start to knotweed are starting to infest twist and url a few days after your plush green grass, it's not treatment and eventually dry up li,.....t.::. " • - . 1o0.JateL to Start a simple weed and 'disappear. Reaction is •-attack-that will keep .your lawn slower during a cold spell and. -- - ---•-•„ , healtly—ana—linruiiant •UntirVEtrthe tuills"verY. freeze-up, and through to neit Herbicides , will penetrate et spring when seeds from other weeds and destroy their root areas will start to infest your systems. If used according to lavirn again. - directions, these chemicals are Autumn often brings* a new not harmful to pets, children invasion of weeds - dandelion, and most healthy turf grasses. plantain,. • chickweed, sheep Directions ' shoeld be followed sorrel, clover, knotweed and implicitly. * other broadleaf - species that Right nowis a good time for follow two-cycle growth feeding lawns. This is the season patterns. Spring -killed weeds die when the bluegrasses, fescues and leave small patches in the and bent grasses are at their best, lawn. These , make excellent developing underground and seed -beds for the dandelion's thickening above - but without floating parachutes. These grow . the leaf growth that brings extra ii. into fair-sized plants by fall -and mowing- If a lawn is amply fertilized in are ready to flower and start a second cycle again next spring. autumn, spring feeding can If you spray now and ,iearly - probably be skipped, or at least October and kill "th-ese wee-ds,--vntil the surge -13f growth that • .. be few seeds floa there willintensifies mowing has passed. ting around ' to grow in. .the soil The usual recommendations exposed by the dying weeds. By for fertilizer application is to use next June when the seeds are one and, one-half pounds of .. -.floating in the air from. , other actual nitrogen per thousand gardens and areas, the lawn square feet of, lawn area. This grasses in your lawn will have . works out at 10 pounds of sr had a chance to fill the voids, 6-9-6 or 10 pounds of 10-6-4 pe especially if you follow your 1,000 square feet of lawn. Mark ,weed -killing with a booster the, lawn off into strips and feeding.. •-•7•-iiielasure your fertilizer according •- Selectivity - the repression to 'the square feet of surface in of a weed with no harm to grass each strip. -This ensures an even - to some extent dependkupon distribution and will prevent the the methods and rates of application; so follow the ,./ instructions with each product carefully and ' be ' especially careful with weed killers that may volatilize, such as certain . esters of 2,4-D and silvex. These should not be, used near flower . borders and ornamental shrubbery., nor on windy days. This pot only applies to spraying with- these herbicides, but, also to 'applications with a weedbar. This . can be • particularly dangerous when the wind blows the treated grass -clippings on to garden plants. • If the weather is at all .warm • during the ' next . two weeks, apply silvex or mecroprop for -chickweed-on lawris-that do not i - t contain large- amounts of bent grasses - this' would apply to BINGOS ; c . o • • r! darl,E and light growth areas that often follow fertilization. ' If' a-rnecharnattlistrilvtor is, used, the job is much easier but, - careful to set the machine correctly,,and test it on soil first, otherwis4 the fertilizer might -Mir too "-f t,--and-inetr "at- Mis- time of the ear,.burning might result. Apply in strips parallel to' the road; this way any burning due to mechanical difficulties will not be so obvious from the t house. You could use one of the combination lawn food and weed killer preparations. These workry well ,in my garden, but use those that contain 2,4-D or "silvex" weed killers and not those recommended for crabgrass. Those are only of use in the spring. These weed n'feed • chemicals will not harm pets, burn lawns or drift to other areas since they are granular in form arld•-ean be .applied evenly and tinifornily with your lawn - ' spreader. 'As soon as the weeds curl- up and die, the fertilizer goes to work to stimulate growth Of the lawn grasses. A small bag of 25 pounds of 20-10-5 weed n'feed fertilizer will usually weed and feed an area of 2,500 square feet. • '• GIVE... so more will live HEART FUND - to Business Directory Ronald L. McDonald CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 39 St. David St., 524-6253 poderich, Ontario, '06frilrialakaae 10 ESSEX Si.. GODERICH. OffrXRIO Available F,or • PUBLIC OR • PR IN/ATE PARTIES most lawns. Use an application, of 2,4-D for the dandelions and plantains that are_now in good growth and awaifing the 'spring. 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