Dormant Seeding: The Basics

There are very few secrets today in the field of lawn care, but there are lesser known methods of keeping lawns in top shape. If your lawn is not looking too well in the spring and you’re regularly finding bare spots at the start of the season when the grass is supposed to be that perfect spring green, dormant seeding is probably going to help cover up for that.

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Nettle Water & Slurry as a Pesticide or Fertilizer: Myth Vs Fact

The common nettle, or stinging nettle is a herbaceous perennial plant that has been used for a variety of purposes throughout the millennia. It seems unbelievably useful at first glance. You can make a lot of from it – boil some tea with dried nettle, mix it into a pie with some cheese, mix it with chicken feed as a supplement. Or, you could use nettle water as a fertilizer or pesticide on your other crops.

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