"sg_fla" expounded:

I understand about hot places and fertilizer. I'm a horticulturist in
SW Florida, and applying fertilizer in the heat of summer is like
spraying acid on your lawn. It just burns the hell out of the grass.

Scotts did this because sales drop severely for fertilizer in the
summer in the south. It's a marketing ploy. Unless it's something
like Milorganite or Organo (totally organic), don't put it on your
southern lawn in the summer!

Don't put it on *any* lawn in the summer!. Lawns go dormant in our
summer heat, also, it's a natural process, they green up with the fall
rains. There is no need to fertilize in the summer.
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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