Thanks. The well is atleast 100', or so we have been told.
I will have to do a lot of investigating before we can get rid of these
nasty weeds!

"Doug" wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:32:33 GMT, "Lisa94" wrote:

Hi everyone. We just moved to a new house in central Massachusetts that
has
well water. We always used the Scotts system for fertilizing the lawn
but
don't really want to do that for fear of it entering the drinking water
as
we have a well and not a town water supply. How do I go about getting
rid
of the crab grass and getting new grass to grow?

Thanks in advance!
Lisa


Lisa,

Ask your county extension office or the EPA what the danger is of lawn
chemicals seeping into your well. Also try to find out how deep the
well is befpre contacting them. If, for example, the well shaft goes
down 100' or so, contamination might not be a problem compared to a
shallow well of say 20'. You can also do some checking on whether
there are crab grass preventive chemicals that leave minimal residual
chemicals (i.e., they do their job and the chemicals dissipate). I
know there are weed killers and lawn insecticides that work fast and
leave little residual chemicals, but I'm not aware of this being the
case for fertilizers, particularly Scott fertilizers which advertise
their "time release" system. You can also ask if there are
substitutes in the fertilizer end that do a reasonable job of
providing nutrients, but I don't know what type of success you'll
have.

Doug