WORK ON THE LAWNS
Autumn usually finds our lawns in the pink. This year the grasses are greener than ever. Anywhere a lot o£ good work has been done the surface should be splendid. Lawn making is not the easiest of the jobs that have to be done by the amateur gardeners. Cutting, weeding, top-dressing, manuring, rolling and edge-trimming take a lot of time. Anyone who prides himself on his lawns and does his work well never has much time to play with over the week-end. It is always a matter of cut and come again. During good weather one has to work hard to keep pace with things. But work is easy when a chap is doing something that makes his home look better. Anyone in good health should take a delight in doing a bit of work now and again. Our suburbs would be much less beautiful if we all went off to the surfside on Saturday afternoon. Once a man marries he should scratch round at home. No better place for scratching than his sown bit of back yard. For liquid manure use one teaspoonful of sulphate of ammonia for every gallon of water. Dissolve the chemicals and spread the liquid with a watering can. Scattering crystals is rather a rough and ready method.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 916, 8 March 1930, Page 28
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217WORK ON THE LAWNS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 916, 8 March 1930, Page 28
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