"Art" wrote in message
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Eggs Zachtly wrote:
Art said:

ythread wrote:
Never use chemicals on your lawn.

I use a product called Dillo Dirt. Completely natural and ph balanced.
News flash: Most chemicals are natural.

I had wondered when someone was going to say that. =)

In the treehugger's defense, I think they meant, "as opposed to
synthetic".
=)

I did a little reading about this "dillo dirt" stuff. It comes from
Austin,
and probably works pretty well, there. I'm not so sure it's the cure-all
for lawns everywhere. It's still best to have your soils tested, decide
on
the species of grass you ultimately want to have growing in your lawn,
and
fertilize accordingly, adding the nutrients in the rates specific to that
grass species, IMO. Thinking about Art's interpretation of ythread's use
of the word "natural",
I started searching comparisons between natural and synthetic
fertilizers.
I even ran across one throwing "dillo dirt" into the mix. It was a pretty
good read, and even hails from Texas.
http://www.tcmastergardener.org/html...endations.html

As a side-note, during my above searches, I never found anything to
backup
the theory that "Scotts = Death". =)


I agree.

My point was that ythread seems to go along with the thinking that just
because something is "natural" it is good and if it's not natural it is
destroying the planet. I never quite bought into that. There's some pretty
toxic stuff in nature and some very beneficial and safe chemicals too. But
that goes both ways.

I once heard of a guy that was killed when a pallet load of fertilizer was
dropped on him. No doubt, it was Scotts.

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Art

and btw i am a tree hugger =)