Tan to brown blades can be left or raked from lawns as growth begins.
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Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Jan. 2026
As for the face touch, when he was raked across the face by New Orleans’ Jordan Poole, on a play ruled a transition take foul, Larsson smiled afterward.
When spring comes, the cover crop can be tilled back into the soil to add nutrients.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
28 Dec. 2025
These tools – still carrying the soil from which they were tilled – represent the work of the immigrant farmworkers of all backgrounds who helped build California’s agriculture industry, which continues to feed the nation today.
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