TRI-STATE LAWNS LOOKING A BIT GRUNGY; HERE'S HOW TO FIX THEM

From: Evansville Courier & Press | Date: July 14, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

I have been noticing quite a few brown lawns. Some are almost completely brown, while others have small brown patches or irregular areas of dead turf. Knowing the cause of a lawn's problems is the first step to fixing them.

With the sudden onslaught of intensely hot, dry weather, much of the surface soil has dried and hardened, baking the turfgrass roots within the clods.

Drought stress is getting to be a problem everywhere but can be most troublesome in new housing areas. Developers often remove the topsoil during construction, or cover it with the subsoil dug out for the basement. Often, the ...

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