DAISIES IN LAWNS
NOT EASY TO ERADICATE. Daisies are a nuisance on a well kept lawn and arc not easy to eradicate. Their leaves are so low that the mower blade usually passes over them. As each leaf kills the grass underneath it. a bare spot is left to disfigure the lawn when the daisy is removed. The foliage is easily killed by various chemicals or by a piece of sulphate of ammonia as large as a hazel nut, placed in the centre of the crown. Where, however, the top only is destroyed, little or no success results because the roots produce more shoots. A thorough attack on the weeds is best.
La'wn sand, containing sulphate of ammonia and sulphate of iron, given as a drossing three times at intervals of a fortnight discourages many of the weeds, but this must be followed up by attacking isolated plants with a daisy fork. The best method of working is to mark out the lawn with two strings into strips three feet wide, and to clear one strip of weeds before moving on to the next. Perennial weeds of all kinds should bo dealt with persistently until complete eradication is achieved.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1939, Page 3
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199DAISIES IN LAWNS Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1939, Page 3
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