Snooze wrote with fractured grammar:
Except see, the fertilizer the original poster was
attempting to use organic, rather then synthetic.

Ann wrote:
Except the OP is using an organic fertilizer. I won't use anything
but Espoma Organic lawn food, no more excessive growth and I have a
wonderfully strong, green lawn with two applications a year.

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Yes. So please note the very first piece of advice that I offered to
the original poster:

Options:
1) Try contacting Agway to see what setting they recommend.

If the original poster is 100% convinced that the world as we know
it will end if anything other than organic fertilizer is used, then he is
free to ignore much of the rest of my post. But, I have "converted"
many folks to switch from organic to the much more reliable and
easy Scotts. Ground water is still fine, the children don't have extra
extremities, the wildlife is thriving fine, and the predicted end of the
world hasn't arrived.