26th YEAR No 127 lawn! ofells why weeds need not mar your MILD WINTER — Mixed Blessing to Lawns MANY OF THE better fed lawns stayed nice and green most of the winter. In such instances grass got off to a head start this spring. Whether grass did or not, it's a cinch weeds are well ahead, as are other lawn enemies including the spores of fungus diseases and various insect pests: green mica-like granules that flow so freely from a package of Scutl. It doesn't make any difference if it rains afterwards as at this time the granules do their work on the ground anyway. The mercury released will check fungus disease activity — which is often harmful to grass in late spring. Scutl also flicks the life out of tiny weed or grass sprouts as they poke an explora- tory tip of green through the soil. The folder in the Scutl package says repeat at two week intervals. If some particularly ornery Crabgrass plants break through the earlier Scutl barrage . . . you will want to hit 'em again in mid-summer. HAVE YOU FOLLOWED? Here is what you can expect to accom- plish with the Scutl lawn treatment: 1) Better grass because of inhibition of fungus diseases, 2) squelching of an- nual weeds as they pop through, and 3 ) clean up of those extra elusive Crab- grass scamps. A year ago we wrote about the Scutl triple play. While this has not become as famous as baseball's famed Tinkers to Evers to Chance, many Lawn Care readers have decided "Scutl is as essen- tial as food in lawn growing Scutl is useful in controlling Crab- grass almost any time in the summer. In this issue, however, we want to talk about a Scutl program that starts about the time the yellow dandelions are so evident, or when tulip blossoms are coloring the landscape. Then, if you think germination of the Scotts Seed you planted earlier in the spring is complete, you get out the lawn spreader and fill it with those Your easy recipe is through Spreader- fuls of Scutl right after yellow dande- lions followed by four repeats at 14 day intervals. SPEAKING OF DANDELIONS, estab- lished plants will not succumb to Scutl, and neither will other dicots like plantain, buckhorn, mustard, thistle, once they are through the soil. It's only the brand new first protruding plants that succumb to Scutl. The actual dan- delion plants need another chemical. If those weeds are bothersome, get after them with one of the 2,4-D composi- tions, such as the easy-to-spread 4-XD or Weed & Feed. One application of either should suffice and it can be worked in between Scutl treatments. • In a mild winter Chickweed, Speed- well, Heal-all and similar low-growing vining weeds may grow pretty much through the winter. These particular weeds are resistant to chemical weed controls, especially in cool wet seasons, when such plants are most vigorous. To control these weeds wait until summer-like weather, then apply 4-XD or Weed & Feed. Plan at least one re- peat dosage in a couple of weeks. Seeds are Hardy Weed . .. month. How do seeds so only grass comes up? I want to seed a new lawn next the weed I destroy