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Tips On Managing Your Lawn Like A Pro by Kyle Miller (NAPS)—Healthy lawns don’t just happen. They require a plan. To maintain a healthy lawn, do what the lawn care pros do and develop a turf health care plan that includes proper mowing, watering, fertilizing and pest treatments. These fundamental steps are the foundation of an integrated health care plan for a beautiful, enjoyable lawn. Mowing: Turf pros mow at least weekly. Frequent mowing minimizes leaf area removal, which creates less shock to turfgrass. It also helps grasses tiller, meaning new offspring plants grow next to parent plants, leading to a denser, healthier lawn. Start by sharpening your mower blade and put it to work frequently. Dull blades tear turf, and turf damage makes grass tips more susceptible to disease and insects. Sharp blades make clean cuts, which heal quickly and are less prone to pests. Watering: Watering is crucial for healthy lawns. Do it early in the morning for two smart reasons. First, 30 percent of watering during a hot day simply evaporates. Second, morning watering allows the sun to dry the tips of the blades, which reduces the amount of time the turfgrass foliage stays wet. That’s good news, since diseases and insects are most destructive in moist plant material, so don’t water at night when the top of the lawn will stay wet for many hours. Fertilizing: Stimulate grass growth by applying a fertilizer when turfgrass is actively growing. Nutrients in fertilizer typically include nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium and levels of each, such as 5-10-20, appear on packaging. In this case, the 5-10-20 fertilizer would have 5 percent nitrogen, 10 percent phosphorus and 20 percent potassium. A balanced fertilizer such as 5-10-20 promotes strong roots for the fall and winter months. Treating for Pests: Plants—like people— can get sick. For example, grass can suffer from environmental stress that creates conditions for pest pressure. If lawn disease strikes, medication treatments in the form of pesticides are required to nurse the plant back to health. To control weed pests, such as dandelions and clover, sedges and grassy weeds including crabgrass, treat your lawn with a pre-emergent herbicide. As the name implies, pre-emergent herbicides inhibit weed growth before weeds emerge. If weeds emerge over time, treat them with a postemergent herbicide. Always consult specific pesticide product labels for restrictions, rates, use sites and safety information. Learn more at www.betterturf.basf.us. Kyle Miller is Senior Technical Specialist for BASF Why NOT Place Your Classified ad with Thrifty Nickel....... Owensboro 270-683-5557 or Evansville 812-428-8484
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10 Million Reasons To “Flip” (NAPS)—From pulling out blankets, replacing smoke detector batteries, varying the decor and flipping mattresses, many people literally start “flipping” their home routines when the seasons change. Among all of the flipping, the bedroom is often the place to start—changing out linens and preparing for the next season, and the host of allergens that each new season brings. Beds are usually thought of as a sanctuary—a safe haven for rest and rejuvenation. But if most people—particularly allergy sufferers—really knew what was lurking beneath the sheets, they might think of their bed as more of a litter box than a sanctuary. Lying beneath the cleanest, most luxurious linens and inside the fluffiest pillows lurk microscopic allergy triggers, including dust mite droppings, pollen, fungal and mold spores and cat and dog dander. Trying to sleep among the estimated 10 million allergen particles found in an unprotected mattress can surely disrupt a person’s peaceful slumber. “While indoor allergies are year-round, it’s obvious that the effect of those allergens is increased significantly whenseasonal allergies arrive and worsen symptoms altogether,” says Dr. Clifford Bassett, allergy expert and assistant clinical professor of medicine at Long Island College Hospital. “Protecting your pillow and mattress with allergen-filtration products such as Aller-Ease is one of the most important steps allergy and asthma sufferers can take to minimize their symptoms. For maximum allergy relief, it is critical to build a complete allergen-filtration bedding system that protects pillows, mattresses and box springs.” Whether you suffer from allergies or not, the allergens inside the typical pillow and mattress are not what most people would want to breathe. But for allergy and asthma sufferers, the problem is even more severe. With these simple yet effective changes, you can keep allergens in check in the bedroom: • Encase your mattress, box
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spring and pillows in highly effective allergen barrier covers, such as Aller-Ease protective bedding products. • Wash bed linens weekly in 130-degree Fahrenheit water. • Consider traveling with your pillow protector to help minimize symptoms in hotels or while on the road. • Remove dust-collecting clutter from the bedroom and other areas of your home. • Place nonwashable plush toys in a resealable plastic bag and put them in the freezer for three to five hours every week to kill dust mites. • Furnace filters should be changed frequently during allergy seasons. • Use a low-cost home hygrometer to help keep humidity below 50 percent, as dust mites thrive in higher-humidity environments. • Use easy-to-clean hardwood, tile or linoleum flooring instead of carpeting. • If you have carpeting, use a vacuum equipped with a HEPA filter to reduceairborne dust. • Shampoo hair nightly and change clothes before entering the bedroom to avoid transferring outdoor pollens into your bedRUDOLPH BROTHERS room. Lying beneath the cleanest, most luxurious linens lurk IMPLEMENT microscopic allergy 2845 W. ST. Road 66 Rockport, IN triggers. (Former Kight Building) (NAPS)—Did you know that, across the country, leaks account 812-897-1720 for more than one trillion gallons of water wasted each year? That’s enough water annually to supply Arizona, New Mexico,
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Do you know where your house is wasting water? Utah and Colorado combined. Each year, the average American home wastes more than 10,000 gallons of water on easy-tofix household leaks. That’s how much water a family uses to wash 10 months’ worth of laundry, and it could be adding 10 percent to your water bill. Check your water bill in winter; if a family of four uses more than 12,000 gallons per month, you may have a leak. If your water bill is not measured in gallons, you can easily find a conversion calculator online. Finding and fixing leaks around the home is as easy as check, twist and replace. Check toilets for leaks by putting food coloring in the tank and waiting a few minutes; if the color shows up in the bowl before you flush, you have a leak. The culprit may be a worn rubber flapper, which can be easily replaced at a hardware store. You should also check your outdoor watering system this spring for damage from freezing temperatures. Twist the joints connecting your showerhead and use pipe tape to ensure a tighter connection if you’ve got a leak. Outdoors, twist the hose connection tightly to the spigot and replace the hose washer if necessary. Replace worn gaskets to nip faucet drips; one drip per second wastes 3,000 gallons of water per year! If you need to replace an entire fixture, look for the WaterSense label, which signifies that a product has been indepen_dently certified to use less water and perform well. For information about finding and fixing leaks, visit www.epa.gov/watersense. Note to Editors: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared March 12–18, 2012, Fix a Leak Week. It’s a time for consumers to remember to find and fix household leaks that can waste water and money on their utility bills, but these tips are relevant year-round. NAPSI)—House fires are more common than many people think. No matter the season, it’s important to ensure homes and
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HOMECONTEST LAWN & GARDEN TRIVIA 1 WINNER WILL RECEIVE $50 CASH All the answers to the questions are found in the HOME LAWN & GARDEN GUIDE of this weeks issue of the Thrifty Nickel The winner will be announced in the April 9th Thrifty issue.
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Protect Your House From Fire families are well protected. Therefore, there’s no time like the present to evaluate the different fire-safety measures in place around your house. If you happen to be remodeling, it’s an ideal time to bolster your home’s fire safety. • Be sure you have working smoke detectors on all floors of your home and outside sleeping areas. Check them once a month, clean them every six months and change the batteries at least once a year. Better yet, opt for newer units that come with a 10-year, no-maintenance battery. • Select appliances with an automatic shutoff. • Never overload electrical outlets or use extension cords to replace additional outlets. When remodeling or undertaking repairs, make sure you engage a licensed electrician for all electrical work. • Install ground fault circuit interrupters and arc fault circuit interrupters in kitchens, bathrooms, outdoor areas, unfinished basements and crawl spaces, garages, boathouses, laundry areas, and within 6 feet of sinks, bathtubs and shower stalls. These devices have helped save thousands of lives from fire or shock since being introduced. • Check your residential fire extinguisher and ensure it is stored in an easy-to-access location in case of emergency. • Create a fire escape plan for your home and practice it twice a year with all family members. • Opt for noncombustible building materials, whenever possible. Insulation is especially important. A stone wool insulation, such as Rockwool Safe ‘n’ Sound, is the preferred choice of many professional builders. Because of its ability to resist fire up to 1,177ºF-higher than the temperature of a typical house fire-it stays in place to protect escape routes and buys occupants precious extra time to escape. Made from stone, its inorganic composition means it will not produce toxic smoke or harmful gases when exposed to fire. That’s a key feature, because smoke, not flames, is the leading cause of firerelated fatalities. Homes today burn faster than in years past because they’re loaded with more synthetic materials. In the event of a fire, occupants typically have just a few minutes to get themselves to safety. Careful selection of building materials and implementing both fire prevention devices and measures can make all the difference when every second counts. Learn More For further facts, go to www.rockwool.com/products/safensound
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