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Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Weeds—Design Tips for Minimizing Undesirable Plants
... mow strip" under fences, or over the soil separating a lawn area from a planting bed, is an excellent method for eliminating weed habitats. A mow strip ... Paths and walkways can also serve as mow strips. One important design tip regarding mow strips is to use curves whenever feasible ... avoid right angles. Curves allow mowers to navigate easily along mow strips, and saves both labor time and fuel costs. ...
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Rid of cattails - Bog Garden Forum - GardenWeb
... since Jan 9, 00. We still have the cattails. Not as many because we did mow some of them down during a dry season. Have been putting left over sod from ... at 10:14 I'm looking out my window right now at a 40 foot strip of cattails that need to come down (last years crop). I have them in a ...
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Weeds - Organic Lawn Care Forum - GardenWeb
... of soil to dry completely which kills off many shallow rooted weeds. Mow at the highest setting on your mower. Most grasses are the ... to compensate by applying organic fertilizer in normal quantities. I've seen strip mine tailings, which lay dormant for 40 years, reclaimed in one ... fewer weeds in my entire lawn than my neighbor has in the strip running along the fence. The weeds I do have, I manage ...
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Strawberry Renovation
... strawberry plants since they become semi-dormant after harvest. Wait 7 to 8 days, then mow the leaves off with a lawn mower or weed trimmer. Be careful not to damage ... and dispose of them. Reduce the row width with a rototiller or hoe to a strip 12 to 18 inches wide. Thin the plants leaving only the most healthy and vigorous ...
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FallWithNoRainfall
... of our Snapper rider-mower to mulch the leaves along with the grass as I mow. I use this material as a matter of course to cover the more sensitive roses ... as it can get. Unfortunately, DragonGoose Farm is located right in this long, east-west strip. As an indication of the severity of the drought, the Summary reports that as of ...
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ECSONG: A Nut Growers' Manual - General - ECSONG
... note that each species has its own herbicide tolerance. Strip preparation will minimize soil erosion and is less costly ... strip of ground, is recommended as the minimum site preparation treatment. Individual spots reduce the growing area and may result in over or under application. Mow ... Construct owl and hawk perches to attract these predators. Mow vegetation short so no cover is available to the ...
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ECSONG: A Nut Growers' Manual - Species
... the rows leaving at least a two meter wide (seven foot) strip for the trees. Possibly, they may also be mixed with other ... planting specifically to kill the quack grass. The vegetation between the strip should be mowed and converted to grass. Possibly it could be ... nut trees, spots at least four square meters (forty square feet) and mow all grass and weeds between these. At the Baxter Nut Grove, ...
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Questions On Misc. Pests
... every acre of their farm yard? They have a large area to mow. (Cando, N.D.) A: The typical lawn grub goes through cycles. ... them. Simply enclose the plants in a clean garbage bag with the strip overnight and "poof," they are gone. Or, fog them with insecticidal soap ... into tomato greenhouses the only way you could control them was to strip everything out of the house and let it lay cropless for ...
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May All Your Weeds Be Wildflowers
... to “grow” versus those who argue that all in the town must “mow.” A big difference exists, however, between a yard full of noxious, ... both. It can be a low fence, a hedge, a path, a strip of low-growing ground cover. Whatever you use, keeping the border low ... full content of Bret Rapapport’s article entitled “Grow It! Don’t Mow It,” in which he introduces the BRASH concept, appeared in the March ...
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Grow Native!
... mowing. 5) Consider adding short summer wildflowers for a no mow approach. Use species like Missouri evening primrose (Oenothera macrocarpa), Penstemon sp., ... or Purple poppy mallow (Callirhoe involucrate). Another alternative for your no-mow freedom lawn is a prairie parcel. Create a patch of ... of your home, you may want to leave a defining strip of mowed turf around it. Preparing a site for planting ...
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