Watering mistakes harm desert plants and salts build up
UofA horticulturist Steve Fazio explains how improper watering in southern Arizona deserts causes salt accumulation in soils and plant toxicity. He notes salt bands form near the surface, then move deeper with each irrigation, browning mulberry leaves and iron chlorosis, and urges deep slow flushes every four to five weeks to leach salts beyond the root zone. He warns gardeners to pre arrange watering during vacations and highlights bromoxynil as a control for prostrate spurge weeds in Bermuda lawns.
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Steve Fazio
Uofa
Arizona
Bermuda
Stan Heathman
Champagne as a versatile backdrop for living room schemes
Readers learn champagne serves as a flexible base color that pairs with many hues. A designer plan offers 10 percent of purchases for an interior designer to guide color and fabric choices, or suggestions to coordinate using a repeating print and selective accent pieces for a balanced room.
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Barbara Hartung
Copley News Services
Stop cedar bleeding with sealer and proper stain prep
Reader asks how to stop cedar shakes from bleeding after repainting. Answer recommends removing loose paint, using a stain sealing preparation before resealing, and then applying latex paint if desired. Notes cedar creosote bleed possible and emphasizes correct sealer use.
Booklet tackles home pest control by natural methods
The National Wildlife Federation publishes Pesticides and Your Environment a practical home gardener handbook. It offers non chemical pest control tips such as planting flowering parsley to attract predatory insects that eat aphids and other soft bodied pests.
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National Wildlife Federation
Power mower safety quiz tests your knowledge
A short IQ style safety quiz from the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute guides families on mower safety. It covers starting procedures fueling when to refill keeping bystanders away handling clogs debris in the yard and proper mowing on slopes with walk behind and riding mowers.
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Stapley's
Outdoor Power Equipment Institute
OPEI
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Sears
Home & Garden
Scottsdale Daily Progress
John Maddock and Sons
England
British Museum
Department of
London
W.D
Anna L. Stiefel
France
Limoges
Copley News Service
York LL. A
William J.A
New Lenox
N. A
Ralph G. A
Fen
Pittsburgh Paints
Walhide
Cnehy
Plamen Caggye
Td Peputer
Peciali
Geen Tonya
Dave Johnson
S. Third Avenue
Phoenix
Justice of the Peace
Featherock
Utah
Pima Stone Company
E. McDowell Rd
Scottsdale
Bill Miller
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