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9 timely tips for your lawn and garden By: Paula Barbour
Here are 9 timely tips for your lawn and garden from readers just like you.

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For more effective watering, Charles Fontenot of Dublin, Georgia, slides 2- or 3-inch PVC pipe with 1/2-inch weep holes into the ground 6 to 8 inches below the bottom roots of his young trees. He reports that plants do much better during dry spells. And to keep rodents out, be sure to fill in the holes after removing the pipes, he advises.

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Pipe watering of young trees Ovid Bruce 07/19/2012 @ 9:21pm When using this method if you put gravel in the pipe it helps the water last longer. The rocks soak up much of the water helping to slow the evaporation of the water and helps keep critters out of the pipe. A cap as shown in the picture is good and the rocks keep the pipe from filling with soil.

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