crabgrass in lawns, was hollyhocks/pest control -Reply
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- Subject: crabgrass in lawns, was hollyhocks/pest control -Reply
- From: S* S*
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:19:14 -0800
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Any such simple soultions for clover? That's my
nemesis in my grass.
Susan Saxton
For mine is just a little old-fashioned garden where
the flowers come together to praise the Lord and
teach all who look upon them to do likewise.
Celia Thaxter
1835-1894
>>> margaret lauterbach <mlaute@micron.net>
01/25/99 01:35pm >>>
At 03:58 PM 1/25/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I agree completely about pesticides. What I sink
to, occasionally, is
>weed-killers for our lawn. I just don't seem able to
get rid of crabgrass
>without it, and then it gets into the garden. Any
suggestions about how to
>avoid herbicides?
A couple of years ago, Kay Klier Lancaster
suggested that setting your
lawnmower to 3 inches cutting height would shade
out or choke out
crabgrass. We set our lawnmower to cut that high
from the first mowing in
the spring through the last fall mowing. We have
had no crabgrass in our
lawn the past two years, although it's all over the
veggie garden scant
feet away. I know the seeds are in the lawn, we
must bring them on our
shoes, but they have not taken root or shown
themselves. We do get some
dandelions, black medic and herbs such as borage
and caraway taking root in
that lawn, but no crabgrass. It's easy, cheap,
effective and non-toxic. I
highly recommend this solution. Margaret L
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