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Article: LAWN PROBLEMS CAN BE SOLVED WITH THE RIGHT SEED, PATIENCE.(HOME & GARDEN)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 24, 2000
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My husband and I are at wits end trying to keep a healthy lawn. We've lived in our house for two years. Each fall and winter we have a thick, healthy lovely green lawn. Come June, the grass thins out, leaving us with bald patches. They usually start out as yellow or brown patches of grass, which eventually die out and leave patches of bare dirt. I have labeled the backs of the photographs enclosed to let you know which areas of the lawn the patches are in.
Last summer, the lawn started out looking the same but then it began to look worse than it ever had. It was so thin you could see dirt in between blades of grass. If it were not for crabgrass, Bermuda grass ...