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anyone who raises plants mm! animals should be concerned.
August was particularly l»t and dry. 1 knew that going into the fall and winter with my landscape in such a waterdeprived condition is not good, and it forces me to change my routine. My normal fall chore of lawn fertilization/broad-leaf weed control has been put on bold indefinitely
Everywhere I go, I see the effects of drought; tree leaves wilted and brown, vegetable gardens barely hanging on, annuals and perennials drooping and lawns gone dormant My lawn has areas that go crunch when I walk an it so 1 avoid doing so.
Some species of turf are more drought tolerant than others. In general, of the cool-season grasses, the fine fescues (hard fescue, creeping red fescue and Chewing’s fescue) are the
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