Lawn woes and tips plus local graduation news
Readers ask why lawns look white or gray and receive gardening tips on mowing, watering, and feeding to restore green color. A reader reports using borax on roses with good results, while another questions using fish scraps as fertilizer. John Joseph Donich earns cum laude BS in business admin at John Carroll University.
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Elyria
John Joseph Donich
John Donich Jr
Clinton Ave
John Carroll University
Donich
Beta Tau Sigma
Elyria District Catholic High School
Haskins and Sells, Certified Public Accountants
Sheffield Lake Garden Club plans public garden tour
The Sheffield Lake Garden Club will tour Lorain rose gardens and private plots in Sheffield Lake Amherst Vermilion on Monday. Members meet at Alfred and Mrs. Askew's home 900 Lake Rd to start a picnic return. The group will see 500 soil types in Texas?
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Sheffield Lake
Lorain
Sheffield Lake Garden Club
Alfred Askew
Lake Rd
Askew
Garden Club
Demonkas Public Library
Lorain Rose Gardens
Amherst
Vermilion
Sunflowers Grow as Valuable Global Crop and Symbol
The National Geographic Society notes sunflowers are a cash crop with uses from livestock fodder to oil seeds. Russia farms nearly ten million acres of sunflowers while North American gardens and Manitoba fields expand production. A 1968 Sunflower day in Altona celebrates a multi million dollar industry.
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National Geographic Society
Russia
Red River Valley
Canada
Manitoba
Altona
America
Snow mold threat to lawns in winter guidelines
Plant pathologist Robert E. Partyka of The Ohio State University explains snow mold as a winter lawn disease in wet shaded areas or where snow melts slowly. He notes circular bleached patches from one inch to feet, caused by two fungi, and recommends pre snowfall fungicide sprays plus lawn care like proper mowing and avoiding heavy trampling.
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Robert E. Partyka
Ohio State University
Partyka
Foundation Planting for Sloped and Visible Walls
Guidance on softening exposed foundation walls with evergreen and fast growing vines. Recommended plants include English ivy cotoneaster yews and Boston ivy for faster cover with fall color. Adjacent advice covers painting concrete block walls and pruning hedges and birch to maintain form and mowing access.
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Boston
Garden tips on rooting roses and plant care
Home gardeners can start roses from slips using sand and a glass container as a micro greenhouse. Other methods include a potato with shoots and a jar overhead. The piece also covers safe tree saving during dozing, elderberry cautions, Hindu rope plant care, causes of wilting, and proper watering and drainage for rubber plants.
Weekend food buys show abundant poultry and produce nationwide
The USDA and Interior report strong supplies of meat and poultry including broiler-fryer chickens turkeys beef and pork items along with cabbage lettuce onions potatoes tomatoes and celery and corn in many areas. Fresh fruit such as cantaloupes peaches watermelons plums and strawberries are also plentiful with fish like tuna and halibut also watching. A gardening note suggests dividing poppy plants and offers a rose growing booklet request.
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Washington
UPI
USDA
Consumer and Marketing Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
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Sreak
Pete Worst
REO
Bob Matcham Sales
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Wellington
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Lown & Genter
Ritsko
Korner
George - E-Creed
George E. Creed
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Farm Bureau Cooperatives
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Ontario Streets
Chronicle - Telegram Garden Tage
Elderberrie
U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Interior
United Press International
ALL America Rose Selections
Bolens Orbit-Air
Bolens
Toflay
Worcester Sales and Service
Powertel
Rolens
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