Lawns, And How to Make Them : Together With the Proper Keeping of Putting Greens
The book Lawns, And How to Make Them : Together With the Proper Keeping of Putting Greens was written by author Barron, Leonard, 1868-1938 Here you can read free online of Lawns, And How to Make Them : Together With the Proper Keeping of Putting Greens book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Lawns, And How to Make Them : Together With the Proper Keeping of Putting Greens a good or bad book?
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The coarse ground bone takes too long to dissolve and comes in too large particles for convenient HOW TO FEED A LAWN 65 use. Raw crushed bone is to be used only in the original preparation of the ground. Bone meal acts slowly but a dressing once a year at the rate of five hundred pounds to the acre will give marvellous returns. It can be used at any time, and on very light, sandy soils it is common practice to apply a top dressing in the late summertime. Phosphates are particularly beneficial i...n giving vigour to grass plants. They may be applied better by means of bone meal than by any of the chemical fertilisers. Bone meal also contains a fair proportion of slowly available nitrogen, and where there is no need for special sudden stimulation it may be used to the exclusion of nitrate of soda or animal manures. WOOD ASHES AND LIME Hardwood ashes, broadcasted at the rate of one ton to the acre, are peculiarly available on blue grass lawns inasmuch as they carry with them a quantity of lime which will neutralise any tendency to acidity in the soil, thus making it a more congenial medium for the Kentucky blue grass.
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