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| Hi Lawn Guru's,
I'm having a hard time finding a liquid, organic lawn food in my area-Rochester, NY. Which one should I buy online? I'm looking for something that will feed the new grass I planted in Sept that's now pretty well established (although I do have a few spots that are "younger" because I spot seeded where germination was sketchy)and I'd like to beef up the soil as well. I've been tempted to try the alfalfa pellets many of you recommend but am concerned about attracting bunnies or other not so cute critters to my yard. And I read that "mold" begins forming quickly...is this a visible mold or just microbe mold you can't see that benefits the soil? I have a city yard on a corner, so using a liquid is much easier to navigate around garden areas and street lamps, signs etc rather than a spreader. Are any of you familiar with Bill's Lawn Food or Hasta Grow? Last but not least...will this stuff smell really bad and will the odor last days or weeks beyond the application? Am I too late to do any of this? Just thinking it would be good to feed it, promote root growth and juice the soil before cold weather sets in...I used to use a weed and feed but have sworn off those courtesy of reading this forum and with all the new KBG/PR seeding, am 99% weed free. so it's easy to just pull them out. Thanks for all the great advice you post on the forum-when people inquire about roto tilling, I can now anticipate your responses..."bumpy, lumpy, don't do it"! |
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- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Sat, Oct 13, 12 at 17:26
| The problem with liquid fertilizers is they only have fractions of an ounce of food in them. This goes for Hasta Gro, liquid seaweed, and all of them. An entire bottle of liquid feed weighs about a pound. Whereas a bag of fertilizer weighs 50 pounds and goes down at a rate of 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet. If you applied 20 bottles of liquid per 1,000 square foot, then you'd have something going. When bunnies are held in captivity and deprived of any fresh food, then they will eat alfalfa pellets. When they have free choice, they are not attracted to dry alfalfa pellets. When you apply alfalfa pellets, they will remain as pellets until they become moistened. Then they swell up and, essentially, burst open. Mold is one of the biological processes we rely on in organic gardening. The molds (fungi) are essential to healthy soils. There are tens of thousands of fungi which are considered beneficial in the soil. Those that decompose food are among them. Unless you saturate your soil and drive away the air, the fungi will be beneficial. If you soak the soil and cut off the air, then the microbes turn anaerobic and disease starts. Just let the soil dry out and it will be fine. |
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