Damn dude... You go man!
I've been trying to wean people off that crap for years. SOD or is it SON
now. How people mis interpret that also, and what DO those little numbers
REALLY mean on the front of the bag??? I think its some sort of government
messaging system to track people's spending habits, or does it have
something to do with Roswell area 51?? Quick, they're telling us something
else to magically get our lawn green.....SHHHH!!!


"Warren" wrote in message
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wrote:
I'm also not a fan of putting feritlizer down in the summer, which the
"step" programs advocate.

What the "step" programs really advocate is buying lots of stuff from
them.

The best times to fertilize are fall and
spring. Come summer, I leave it alone, as excess nitrogen combined
with hot weather can be a path to disease and fungus.

And when that disease and fungus comes, they have another product to sell
you. Heaven forbid you some day figure out that they essentially got you
to pay them to sabotage your lawn so they could sell you even more stuff.

Which brings us back to..

because using any granular, you have to distribute the herbicide
all over the lawn,

Which means you buy even more stuff.

The best times to fertilize are fall and
spring.

I'd be tempted to change that to the best times to fertilize are fall OR
spring.

As for weed, moss and fungal control, combining any of those with
fertilizer is nothing more than a way to sell more chemicals. If the
entire "lawn" is weeds, or moss, or fungus, then fertilizer isn't the
right thing. And if the whole lawn doesn't have those problems, why spread
the control chemicals all over the whole lawn. The chemicals don't belong
together. It would be like mixing Preparation H and body lotion, and
marketing it to people who have hemorrhoid problems. Would you spread
Preparation H on your face because you have hemorrhoids? (Well, maybe if
you were Bobby Brown, but that's something for another newsgroup to
discuss.)

--
Warren H.

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This fall, vacuum up your leaves instead of raking:
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