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May 9, 2008
CHYMLINE Platinum Issue #76

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Happy Mother's Day! We found this amazing poem online and thought we'd share it with you. It is called Mean Mom, CLICK HERE to view the poem. We hope you like it!

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Three Ways to Improve Your Lawn’s Summer Drought Tolerance Without Additional Water

1) Raising the height of your mower will encourage the grass plant to send down a root system deeper into the soil. The deeper the roots of the grass, the better able to withstand drought. This is also the reason why it makes much more sense to water heavily when you are permitted to, rather than a little bit of water more often. The deeper the penetration of water, the deeper the roots will go to take advantage of it.

2) Regular overseeding in mid-spring and again in early fall with a quick germinating grass seed with Turf Type perennial ryegrass will help to thicken the turf’s appearance, crowd out undesirable weeds, and help lessen moisture evaporation through bare or thin spots in the turf. Many folks seek to do the ‘least’ feeding possible, but it’s important that turf is kept vigorous and well fed so that when it goes dormant during droughty conditions it has the necessary strength to recover from it.

3) It used to be common for folks to rake good soil into their lawn on a regular basis to improve the soil beneath the turf. This is still regularly done during the process of overseeding. Organic matter
depletion in your soil means that whatever moisture or fertilizer it gets is less effectively available to the lawn. It doesn’t take much organic matter to see a huge improvement. Just a 1% increase in organic
matter will increase your turf’s drought tolerance by 50%. Using a granulated leaf compost product like Turf Revolution’s new Easy-Flo Compost means that now there is an easy way to apply this organic matter with any regular fertilizer spreader. Each bag has the organic matter equivalent of 8 bags of regular soil, and does about 750 sq.ft.

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