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Article: ESTABLISHING LAWN ORDER MASTER GARDENER JOHN CRETTI OFFERS SPRING LAWN TIPS.(Spotlight on Home and Gardening)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 5, 1997
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Byline: John L. Cretti Rocky Mountain Horticulturist
The home lawn is the basic element in our landscape design, tying together landscape plantings and other features. As the lawn welcomes us home, it also provides an escape from the harsh, impersonal concrete surfaces of sidewalks and paved streets.
Every year, Rocky Mountain gardeners invest enormous amounts of money, energy and time into caring for this living green carpet. Despite all this care, many lawns are in critical condition, infested with weeds, insects and diseases.
One of the biggest favors we can do for lawns in the Rockies - and we'd help ourselves at the same time - is to ...