Ok, now you have me curious. What is the difference between steer
manure and just plain old bs? (sorry, couldn't resist
I am serious, tho. I used (once) manure from a local farm and
completely killed my patch of grass. It's starting to come back (2
years later) and looks like it needs to be fed, but I don't want to
repeat the error. Is there something specific I should ask for rather
than just grabbing my shovel and heading out by their barn?


On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:36:30 -0700, "Starlord"
wrote:

I've been reading this line, and have replyed some, but it's been about my own
garden, but I want to tell you this, not all lawn services are bad, I know for
sure, how? because for 12 years I ran my own one man service in Los Angeles and
I covered from the Glendale foothills all the way down to Long Beach.

Most times, when someone hired me, their lawns where a total write off, dead and
deader comes to mind. And unlike most other services, I would follow the
following routine:

1. mow what there was as most of them had been left to grow and die.

2. water ground all day with soaker hose to get it ready.

3. uses 3 tag fork to punch hole in ground while watering, walking over whole
area.

4. hand broadcast steer manure over lawn and just wet it enough to keep from
blowing away.

5. depending on type of lawn and time of year, I might reseed with short rye
grass or just promote grass there.

6. After about 3 months of that care, I would broadcast by hand one bag of slow
feed ferterizer.

7. using a small spray bottle I'd attack weeds with a spot spray of roundup.

Most of these yards where such that kids would be runing acorss them or in areas
of poor soil. Some of them the people had used lawn feeds but never steer
manure.

I take great enjoyment in knowing that the lawns I cared for where green year
round and that any flowers by them also grew and bloomed more than they had ever
done before and that any Roses on them put on shows of blooms like they had just
been planted.

During the last days of my operation I lived in Ramona in San Diego area and the
homes I did where ones for sale and the reator had me doing the lawns to green
them up and belive me, that was a major operation as there was zero top soil and
just screaped sub-dirt and weeds didn't even care to grow. But for the price
they paid me, I got grass to grow until the house sold.

And now that I've unofficaly have gotten going again with the care of two yards
here in the park, my old past skills will be used again.