| If you ever wanted to know how to have the | | | | Kentucky Bluegrass, go down by late June when |
| greenest, most healthy lawn -- this is exactly how! | | | | attacked by helminthosporium leaf spot, while another |
| Very few know of this secret. You should find out. | | | | part of the same lawnplanted with Chewing's Fescue |
| The gardener without years of experience will do well | | | | and Highland Bent in addition to the bluegrassshowed |
| to consider planting a mixture of grasses rather than a | | | | only an occasional area affected by the leaf spot. |
| solid turf of a single species. If he knows exactly what | | | | Both areas were maintained exactly the same. |
| he is doing, and understands how to control the | | | | Another advantage of mixtures is that they tend to |
| diseases which might attack his particular single | | | | adjust themselves to the varying soil conditions often |
| species of grass, the chances are it will survive and | | | | found within a lawn, and also to differences in sun and |
| thrive without serious injury. | | | | shade. It is not uncommon for the same lawn to have |
| But the beginner rarely has the necessary skill and | | | | one area that receives three hours of sunshine while a |
| knowledge for this, and, even when he does, he often | | | | short distance away it has sun all day long. |
| runs into unforeseen trouble. If conditions changesuch | | | | One of the very real problems a seedsman has, for |
| as an extremely wet or dry yeara solid turf of one | | | | example, is in recommending a grass to the man who |
| species may suffer severely, whereas one containing | | | | doesn't know what a sunny lawn is. I have actually |
| several grasses will pull through in good shape. | | | | studied lawns which the owner claimed received sun |
| Disease is a good example of the type of problem a | | | | "all day long" and found they had our hours or less. |
| mixture may help avoid. The fungi which attack | | | | This is often true in cities, where the line of parkway |
| grasses are quite specific in their action. That is, some | | | | trees and the house form barriers that cut off the sun |
| will attack fescues but not bluegrasses, while others | | | | until late in the morning and then block it again early in |
| attack bents but not fescues. Except for rust, which is | | | | the afternoon. |
| largely airborne, most of these turf diseases are | | | | By doing just a little research, which often amounts to |
| spread by contact from one blade to another. | | | | asking a representative at your local nursury or home |
| If the turf is made up of more than one species, this | | | | supply store, you will find the perfect mixture of grass |
| plant- to-plant contact is broken. I have seen one | | | | seed for your needs and avoid many troublesome and |
| section of a lawn, seeded wholly to Common | | | | time-consuming problems. |