On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:42:09 -0600, J Kolenovsky opined:

Yes, I've heard of Ladybug and Sustane/you mention them frequently.
Houston has "Microlife".

Regarding the Garden-Ville product:

1. What is it about the creator?

I don't like his ethics or the ethics of a few he's involved with. I've said
more than I should.

2. What were the results of using the product?

J

Well, I still had chlorosis and the results were not as good as when I used
Sustane or LadyBug Brand. As I've said, I prefer to use products which do not
contain human waste. They are cheap, but unreliable. Biosolids can contain
harmful levels of heavy metals and it stinks. Anything I have to wear a mask to
use is not used. I don't even use D.E. any more, as a dust for that reason.

I could probably get specific with results, but I will say for arguments sake
that, the results I see with the preferred products far outweighs any result I'd
seen using Gardenville fertilizer products.

Further, while Milorganite is a sludge product which I've used in the past for
my turf areas, I stopped using IT as well. It was a good, bacterial based,
sludge product, but to have it shipped from Wisconsin when I have perfectly good
products made locally seems to be a waste.

I do believe LadyBug Brand can cover an area of 7,000 sq.ft. I could be wrong
about that, but for turf, the 8-2-4 outperformed every other product out there.

The following website can provide the results of their studies, which were
conducted on turf using several forms of fertilizer.

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/growgreen/lawncare.htm

Victoria