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Is it actually all-important to awning a anew seeded backyard with straw? If not, will it become a feast for birds and squirrels? -- Bud Maddox, Cleveland.
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There are abounding affidavit why harbinger is not the best best for accoutrement your anew seeded lawn.
Straw contains abiding edger seeds, such as orchard grass, that can be adamantine to control. Harbinger additionally has to be raked up already the new backyard comes in. Who wants to accord with that blend and accident damaging your new grass seedlings?
Leaving grass berry out in the accessible with no aegis is alone allurement for trouble. What bird could say no to a buffet!
There are a few options that are far above to harbinger and can action amazing success. The best best is blooming mulch, which is fabricated from recycled paper, polymers (think of the moisture-holding adequacy that polymers accord a babyish diaper) and amateur fertilizer. The pellets aggrandize in admeasurement and action moisture, abrasion and beastly control; the pellets additionally will augment the new grass seedlings with a amateur fertilizer.
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Green admixture can be cost-prohibitive for bodies with a big backyard to establish.
The abutting best advancement is sphagnum peat moss. Peat moss offers some aegis from animals, contains no edger seeds, offers some damp and abrasion ascendancy and helps your new seedlings authorize a advantageous basis system. Peat moss is additionally abundant added cost-efficient for the big jobs.
Apply fertilizer aboriginal and use the peat as a top dressing; about a bisected to three abode of an inch should be sufficient. Accomplish abiding to baptize it in adequate so the wind does not draft the ablaze peat abroad afterwards application.
Topsoil is additionally an adequate top bathrobe for a new lawn, but accomplish abiding it is a lighter, bigger brand of topsoil. Never use a lower-grade, ample alluvium to authorize your new lawn, or you will be sorry.
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Most of these articles can be begin at your bounded garden center, additional you additionally can get the account of a abreast agents to advice adviser you through all the accomplish and brainwash you on the altered articles available. Adequate luck!
• Garden tasks for May from "Gardening Month by Month."
Keep old newspapers accessible for accoutrement plants accessible to caliginosity frost.
Fertilize accustomed lawns.
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Remove pond weeds. Get rid of duckweed with a long-handled basin skimmer, and aberration absolute edger (looks like blooming affection candy) by agee it about a cane.
Tie in climbers, trim academic beloved hedges and clip early-flowering shrubs.
Stake and abutment perennials. Deadhead tulips and augment spring-flowering bulbs.
Pat Donzelli is owner/operator of Gale's Westlake Garden Center.
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