GERMAN PEAT MOSS AS A MULCH* 
Using German Peat Moss as a mulch is next Lest when thoroughly' 
mixing it with the soil is unnecessary or undesirable or impossible. 
After your vegetable garden or agricultural land is well started 
cultivate the ground thoroughly and apply peat moss around the plants 
one or two inches if there is a fair amount of vegetable matter in 
the soil, or two to four inches if the soil is lifeless. Wet this 
down immediately after it is applied, using a stationary spray if 
'possible. Your water bill will be greatly reduced and weeds will 
trouble you very little or not at all. At the end of the season work 
this Peat Moss in thoroughly with the soil and next year apply more 
in the same way. About one bale to 300 square feet will be heeded. 
In your rose or shrubbery garden or around your hedge maintain 
a Peat Moss mulch constantly. If the soil is lifeless for want of 
vegetable matter work this mulch in occasionally down to the roots 
and apply more as a mulch. If the bushes do not thrive at the right 
season for transplanting remove them from the ground, mix Peat Moss 
thoroughly with the soil,reset the bushes and mulch them with Peat 
moss. This will give you such results as you have never dared to 
hope for. A Peat Moss mulch around your shrubbery will do away with 
the impoverished appearance of dry,lifeless,waterwashed dirt and will 
form the most beautiful imaginable background for the bushes. 
Use a 1/2 inch mulch of Peat Moss.over the grass on your lawn 
at least twice a year* If Peat Moss has been used in the soil when 
the lawn was built this mulch will maintain the supply so that it 
will probably be unnecessary at any time to dig up your lawn again. 
In any case such a mulch will cover the grass roots to keep the 
sum from burning them and will reduce your water bill. Don’t expect 
a thin mulch used over the grass where the soil is lifeless for want 
of vegetable matter to perform a miracle. In such a case it will help 
but it can’t accomplish what Peat Moss thoroughly mixed with the soil 
will do. 
Peat Moss is not fertilizer. Fertilizer should be used with 
it if plant food is nece’ssary. 
