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Thu, Jun 23, 11 at 11:31
| Has anyone had experience with bionutrition products such as Floratine? Any thoughts on if they would work with and improve cool season grasses such as TTTF or bluegrass?
I've read some pretty glowing stuff about it. |
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| I know of several Golf Course Superintendents here in the southeast who are on a Floratine program and they are managing bentgrass putting greens in heat stress environments. I'm not sure these types of programs are viable for homeowner use. Floratine products are not cheap, and to get the desired results from them, you have to use several products together for the synergistic effect they produce. The products work, but it would probably cost you hundreds of dollars annually. |
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| Okay. Yeah, I wondered about that. Thanks |
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| If you want a variety of nutrition from one product, try alfalfa pellets. Purina Rabbit Chow is what I'm using. Use it at any rate that you can afford from 10 to 50 pounds per 1,000 square feet. The more you use and the more often, the faster your soil improves. Have you gotten a soil test showing the micro nutrient chemistry of the soil? Once you get your soil microbes back up to par, then the next step is to tune up your micro chemistry. It depends on your budget and how much you want your lawn to look better than the neighbor's. |
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| I haven't gotten a soil test just because I'm wasn't sure what good it would do. If you think it would be a good step, I can do that. The pellets sound like a good idea. I just called our Co-op and she said it was $11.13 for a 50lb. bag - they had five bags there. Stanley brand from another store are $11.90 for a 40lb bag. The guy said they were "top-of-the-line". I'm not feeding it to rabbits so I don't think that matters - does it? TSC sells the pellets for $8 per 40lb bag - sound like the best deal. Any thoughts on quality or anything? Also, with the brown patch that I have, will this affect chemical fungicides or will it worsen/improve the condition of the brown patch right now? thanks |
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| Get the soil healthy first. Do that this time of year with organics, not chemicals. Then, if you want to go farther into this and still have the budget, get the detailed soil test. The micros are not expensive to buy or apply. It is just a more detailed tune up. Getting the micros right can take a few years and repeated soil testing, so keep that in mind. Brown patch? You did not mention brown patch. 15 yard penalty for withholding information ;-) Alfalfa will have no effect on chemicals one way or another. My sense is that the alfalfa will help the grass to recover from the disease but will not have any impact on whether you get more or less brown patch before recovery. |
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| i have a question on alfalfa pellets - Purina Rabbit Chow. my neighborhood has rabbits running around...this will prob attract them to yard huh? how long does it take for it to breakdown in the soil? |
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| jdo, it takes just a little bit of water for those pellets to disintegrate into nothing but little pieces of grass that disappear. There are lots of rabbits in my neighborhood but they don't congregate on my lawn. |
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| Just saying...no self respecting rabbit would choose a rabbit pellet when they could eat sweet green grass. I think those that use pellets to feed their lawns are probably safe from rabbit invasion. Except that their lawns will be super healthy and the bunnies will like the grass...Me thinks it's a catch 22. :) |
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| Uh oh - not a penalty. :) I don't know much about the micros, could you maybe point me to an article on that? I would love to try to tune my soil best I can - anything to help the brown patch. The brown patch is very frustrating because the grass should not be stressed based off of what we have done with the yard. The fescue cultivar should have been a good one as well. |
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