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Take Care This April

4/16/2020

 
Hard to believe we are already halfway through April. People are out planting early cool weather crops and yards are looking healthy.  Please keep the environment in mind as you care for your lawn this season.

If you are harvesting water, don't forget to clean out your gutters before harvesting. Allow the first rains to help clean out the dirt and residue from the winter, the rain this past weekend was a great one for flushing things out. Having algae problems? Put a piece of silver (spoon, fork...) in the barrel. I have had "how it works" explained twice but if you want to know, ask a chemistry teacher!

As you read this realize I'm still trying to figure this blog thing out. What do you want to know about, besides the rambling of an easily distractable gardener? I'm not an expert but we could easliy make this a dialogue, so sound forth and suggest. 

Happy planting.
Eric Doll link
6/18/2014 04:28:47 am

Hey! It's great to see a water harvesting outfit locally here in Des Moines! Mike Salmon turned me on to you guys and I'm glad he did. I personally am interested in how water can be filtered to certain levels to make it acceptable for washing clothes at the residential level. I have always wanted to do so at my house!

Look forward to more entries in the future.


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