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    Has anyone used zoysia lawn?

    Since my first post I decided to buy some 'plugs' Its been in now for over two weeks...and just look like dead plugs of grass. I know that you can't judge something so fast...but so far I am disapponted. I would hve expected some green at least....
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    Has anyone used zoysia lawn?

    thanks...great advice and info
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    Has anyone used zoysia lawn?

    Hi...we are avid readers of Mother Earth News...and have always been captured by the adverts for this zoysia lawn. Has anyone ever tried it? How fast does it grow? (we are on the plains in Colorado) Gary
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    First time planting potatos...need advice please

    Hi....i have always just popped them into the ground...leaving an inch of the sprout above ground. I have seen (and will try this year) growing potatoes in just a layer of straw inside a coupld of old car tires.....you add straw and some horse poo, put in the potatoes, then more straw and poo...
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    We have got Goat Heads (puncture vine)...and they are no fun!

    They start to sprout in late April to early June, but continue through the summer. We just found out that the Colorado Dept of Ag. has a weevil release program to manage these weeds. You release the weevils in fall and they start attacking seeds and then the vines the next summer. We will...
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    We have got Goat Heads (puncture vine)...and they are no fun!

    Hi Folks We have bought a small farm that is overrun with Goat Heads. This is a small vine like plant that springs up in early summer and grows like a ground cover. It has a little yellow flower (and the plant it self if quite pretty). But the seed pod is a horror! It breaks apart into a...
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    Colorado here!

    Hi all We have a small farm (5 acres) in Weld County, about 40 mins north of Denver. Its really a patch of weeds right now, but we are slowly turning it small horse property. We are not good gardeners, but hope that we can have a productive vege garden and have some flowers and trees...
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