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boiling water over the afâ€" fected area â€" the browned grass will soon recover. To control aphids, mealybugs, whiteflies and spidermites, try Safer‘s insecticidal soap. OGet a good sturdy rake and remove the "thatch" which insulates your lawn from water. Thatch, a thick layer of dead organic material on the surface of soil, is resistant to decay and allows your lawn to dry out premaâ€" turely. CApply organic fertilizer or compost onto your lawn to increase the efficiency of soil. OGrow your grass longer. Grass should be at least twoâ€" andâ€"aâ€"half inches tall to comâ€" pete with weed species. Lonâ€" ger grass has the added bonus of being drought resistant â€" longer blades result in deeper roots which are more able to take advantage of moisture below the surface. OCutting grass less freâ€" quently also helps protect against diseases. Too frequent cutting shreds the top from a blade of grass, allowing disâ€" eases to enter. COMix grass with other lawn covers â€" Creeping Cinquefoil (potentilla r. flore plena) is particularly _ recommended. Cinquefoil provides cover for the young grass. Overseeding with grass also helps. And hardy â€" alternative â€" grasses such as "fine type perennial rye grasses" have been develâ€" CAerate your lawn. Rent an aerator and "plug" your grass. "It will increase grass root activity and makes it grow much more vigorously," according to Kara Symbolic, a researcher _ with _ Waterloo Public _ Interest _ Research Group, a Waterloo environâ€" mental group. _ â€" â€" For those who cannot wait for the book, below is a list of tips of how to "Just say No!" to your lawn: (Continued from page 13) ly organic alternative. It makes healthy sense, so let‘s pledge to clean up our own backyards." Organic CDControl ants by pouring While digging up a muckâ€"encrusted margaâ€" rine container, Barb Foell talked about the wonderful species of ferns scattered throughout the woods and how they were being threatened by the rubbish. Beth Martin, working to fill blue recycling boxes with people‘s discards, said the group‘s attempts to clean up the woods weren‘t in vain. The owner of Schaefer‘s Woods has been persuaded to erect a fence along the perimeter of his property to keep dumpers out, she said. â€" Volunteers clean Schaefer‘s Woods A small group of concerned citizens decided to turn back the clock, Saturday, in an allâ€"out clean up of the woods. The clean up coincided with Environment Week. Schaefer‘s Woods has borne the brunt of man‘s laziness, and despite signs of nature‘s attempts to adapt â€" roots passing stubbornly through plastic garbage bags and fastâ€"food containers â€" time has taken it s toll. Over the years, dumpers dissatisfied with landfill site hours have chosen to trash cars, refrigerators, rugs and other unwanted goods in one of Waterloo‘s most picturesque woodlots. Ken Bowman heard about the clean up the Cosesâ€" Colseite Before the clean up, Schaefer‘s Woods was so full of large articles that Martin said a team had to get a head start the Friday before. "A group came by last night to take out the cars so that we could get to the other stuff today." As the two teams carried laden blue boxes to the fringe of the woods, others loaded up pickâ€" up trucks which transported the trash to an area where it was sorted and tipped into dumpsters. Bowman said that when his children were smaller, his family would take treks through the woods. Manned with plastic grocery bags, the Bowman‘s would pickup up trash as they walked along the trail lined with huge hardâ€" wood trees. night before after reading an ad in a local paper. _ _ ‘"Yah, he called us up at 10 o‘clock last night to say he wanted to help," laughed Martin. Blair Clements dug up rubbish buried in a heavilyâ€"wooded area at Schaetfer‘s Woods, Saturday. u|¢m.-|s=trffr§-«51 %:;.8:8:30-6 262 Weber St. North, Waterioo 886â€"2950 GLENBRIAR HOME HARDWARE WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY JUNE 7, 1989 â€" PAGE 17