| Aerate first when reseeding the lawn
Q: I am going to try to renovate my lawn by reseeding. I have heard you say how important aerating is but I'm wondering about the order of things. Should we sprinkle seed first and then aerate to push the seeds into the ground? Fertilize first or second? Please spell it out as my husband and I have been disagreeing on the proper order. -- M.B., Olympia M.B.: Always aerate first. Poking holes into the turf allows the seed, fertilizer and dolomite lime to get down to the grass roots as well as improving drainage and air circulation. Think of it in alphabetical order: aerate, fertilize, lime, new topsoil, reseed, water. If you don't take all the steps for lawn improvement every year, the most important two are aeration and fertilization. Just don't lime and use a fertilize the same day as these two can hook up and slow the nutrient movement into the grass roots.
Premier Tech Introduces Warranty Program
Premier Tech Biotechnologies, a business unit of Premier Tech, is launching its MYKE PRO Landscape Warranty Program. Bolstered by the success of its Warranty Programs in garden centers, the MYKE team is introducing a new MYKE PRO Landscape Warranty Program designed specially for professional landscapers. The 2-year warranty program on plants used in residential landscaping projects is designed for suppliers and landscape contractors. The MYKE PRO LANDSCAPE product includes all the advantages of mycorrhizae, which improve the survival rate of plants and help achieve expected results quicker. With this product, the professional landscaper's service offers and customer satisfaction improve and the cost of replacing plants is substantially reduced, helping the landscaper to improve profit margins, the company says.
PD Bias Flagrant in Abatement Editorial
It took the Plain Dealer mere hours to slam Mayor Frank Jackson's compromise offer on the overly generous 15 year, 100 percent residential tax abatements. It's the fastest the lethargic Pee Dee has moved in years. The 15-year, 100 percent abatement policy is before City Council for renewal or alteration in the next couple of months. Any time the PD can support an elite, establishment policy, the Monopoly Mouth is there in a sprint. The editorial says that the CSU study was “paid for by the city." Not true. One has to wonder why the editorial made such a mistake. Council did vote $10,000 but it has not been paid, according to the city. However, there were private funders. The Gund Foundation contributed $25,000 and the new Downtown Cleveland Alliance, $7,500.
Idaho, Oregon, Nevada get healthy landscape funds
The initiative, announced by President Bush for fiscal 2008, will start this year, thanks to money the Bureau of Land Management found in its budget that was not already allocated to other projects.
Starting the projects now will jump start the initiative and lead up to more efforts in fiscal 2008, when the plan calls for providing an additional $15 million to BLM, $3 million to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and $5 million to the U.S. Geological Survey specifically for the program, said U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne.
Kempthorne, former governor of Idaho, announced six projects benefitting 74,000 acres planned for this year during a teleconference today. The projects include one in Idaho, funded for $380,000 and one in the tri-state Owyhee Mountains region on the Idaho-Nevada- Oregon border, funded for $454,000.
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