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Before you decide to renovate your lawn, try using the best mowing, watering, fertilizing and weed and pest management practices for a year or two. If your lawn is still more than 50 percent weeds, it might be time to consider a complete renovation.

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Monitoring soil temperatures: For optimal preemergence crabgrass control do not apply materials until soil temperatures are between 55 and 59° F. Materials applied earlier can lead to polluted runoff and wasted money because crabgrass does not germinate until soil temperatures, at 2 inches below the surface, are between 60 and 64° F. In some places, surface runoff loaded with sediments, chemicals, oil, gas, salts, and fertilizers does not flow into sewage treatment plants and may go directly into our water system.

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Most home lawns with modest expectations do just fine with a single late-fall fertilization. Of the species of lawn grasses, fine fescues are most prone to thatch problems. Fracture compacted subsoil layers to help water move down through the soil profile.

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June-bearing plants because their populations can soar during the summer months when day-neutral cultivars are struggling to cope with the heat. Because currants and gooseberries be-gin growth very early in the spring, you should plant them in the early fall or very early in the spring, before the plants begin to grow.


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