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weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
Hello, I have applied "Weed & Feed" to our lawn. Now I would like to
know when my 15month-old daughter will be able to play there again. The bag has thousands of warnings and precautions, but does not say a word about my question. We live in SC, so it is nice outside already.... Thank you for any help! Jana |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
You fertilized way too early, and why would you buy that crap with all the
warnings if you have a child who is going to be touching the soil? I don't now, nor have I ever been able to figure this out about people. Has me puzzled. On 22 Feb 2003 10:19:15 -0800, (Holger Friebe) wrote: Hello, I have applied "Weed & Feed" to our lawn. Now I would like to know when my 15month-old daughter will be able to play there again. The bag has thousands of warnings and precautions, but does not say a word about my question. We live in SC, so it is nice outside already.... Thank you for any help! Jana |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
Hello, I have applied "Weed & Feed" to our lawn. Now I would like to know when my 15month-old daughter will be able to play there again. The bag has thousands of warnings and precautions, but does not say a word about my question. We live in SC, so it is nice outside already.... Thank you for any help! Jana Have you ever thought about going organic? Colleen |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
You fertilized way too early, and why would you buy that crap with all the warnings if you have a child who is going to be touching the soil? I don't now, nor have I ever been able to figure this out about people. Has me puzzled. On 22 Feb 2003 10:19:15 -0800, (Holger Friebe) wrote: Hello, I have applied "Weed & Feed" to our lawn. Now I would like to know when my 15month-old daughter will be able to play there again. The bag has thousands of warnings and precautions, but does not say a word about my question. We live in SC, so it is nice outside already.... Thank you for any help! Jana It's a learning process, we are from a country that wants instant everything. When one asks a question we can gently lead them to better alternatives lol. No one at the Home Depot ever told us of our other options, I had to go out and find those on my own... Only recently has it become easier to find information on organic and conservational gardening. Colleen Ann All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes of fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
Don't take my word for it; get the label from the product you applied, then
call a lawn care company in your area and ask. They are especially especially glad/hungry for new customers this time of year and they'll talk to you about it. By the way don't use grass clippings as garden mulch for awhile as the weed control agent will still be active and may kill, for instance, ornamentals grasses and sweet corn. "Holger Friebe" wrote in message om... Hello, I have applied "Weed & Feed" to our lawn. Now I would like to know when my 15month-old daughter will be able to play there again. The bag has thousands of warnings and precautions, but does not say a word about my question. We live in SC, so it is nice outside already.... Thank you for any help! Jana |
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falling over drunken, last post for long time, promise...
tolkien, urs was great, well said, i meant badly contracted verbs. my bad nighty night... |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
Holger Friebe wrote: Hello, I have applied "Weed & Feed" to our lawn. Now I would like to know when my 15month-old daughter will be able to play there again. The bag has thousands of warnings and precautions, but does not say a word about my question. We live in SC, so it is nice outside already.... Thank you for any help! Jana The other posts suggesting you consider going organic are very appropos. Weed 'n feed formulations are not very efficient and contribute heavily to urban pollution. If you need to fertilize your lawn, a straight fertilizer (either organic or synthetic chemical) will do the trick, but February is too early - late March or April is better. If you need to treat for weeds, either spot weed or pull by hand. Weed 'n feed formulations apply the weed killer far too broadly, covering areas in which no weeds occur, and leach too easily into ground water and storm water runoffs. They are some major pollutants of our rivers and streams. And they are not an efficient use of the herbicide = you spend more money for poor results. The only product similar to a weed 'n feed I would recommend is corn gluten meal and it is not marketed as such. It is a natural pre-emergent herbicide as well as having some good fertilization ability, specially when used on lawns. Otherwise, any organic lawn fertilizer is preferrable. As to when your daughter can resume play on the lawn, I'd wait until after a couple of good rains or several deep irrigations. Most herbicides will dissipate fairly rapidly into the soil with water and will be pretty much harmless after a week to 10 days. Slow release fertilizer will persist on the surface for awhile, but it will be beaded or granular and noticeable, otherwise fertilizer too, will dissipate into the soil. Just make sure she wears shoes and you wash her hands well after play - she will be fine. pam - gardengal |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
Dude. They put the material on on already and want to know when their child
can play in the yard. "Pam" wrote in message ... Holger Friebe wrote: Hello, I have applied "Weed & Feed" to our lawn. Now I would like to know when my 15month-old daughter will be able to play there again. The bag has thousands of warnings and precautions, but does not say a word about my question. We live in SC, so it is nice outside already.... Thank you for any help! Jana The other posts suggesting you consider going organic are very appropos. Weed 'n feed formulations are not very efficient and contribute heavily to urban pollution. If you need to fertilize your lawn, a straight fertilizer (either organic or synthetic chemical) will do the trick, but February is too early - late March or April is better. If you need to treat for weeds, either spot weed or pull by hand. Weed 'n feed formulations apply the weed killer far too broadly, covering areas in which no weeds occur, and leach too easily into ground water and storm water runoffs. They are some major pollutants of our rivers and streams. And they are not an efficient use of the herbicide = you spend more money for poor results. The only product similar to a weed 'n feed I would recommend is corn gluten meal and it is not marketed as such. It is a natural pre-emergent herbicide as well as having some good fertilization ability, specially when used on lawns. Otherwise, any organic lawn fertilizer is preferrable. As to when your daughter can resume play on the lawn, I'd wait until after a couple of good rains or several deep irrigations. Most herbicides will dissipate fairly rapidly into the soil with water and will be pretty much harmless after a week to 10 days. Slow release fertilizer will persist on the surface for awhile, but it will be beaded or granular and noticeable, otherwise fertilizer too, will dissipate into the soil. Just make sure she wears shoes and you wash her hands well after play - she will be fine. pam - gardengal |
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Tim B wrote:
Dude. They put the material on on already and want to know when their child can play in the yard. 2004 ---maybe |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
Dude. Nobody at home is right. Read the post - I answered the question.
Tim B wrote: Dude. They put the material on on already and want to know when their child can play in the yard. "Pam" wrote in message ... Holger Friebe wrote: Hello, I have applied "Weed & Feed" to our lawn. Now I would like to know when my 15month-old daughter will be able to play there again. The bag has thousands of warnings and precautions, but does not say a word about my question. We live in SC, so it is nice outside already.... Thank you for any help! Jana The other posts suggesting you consider going organic are very appropos. Weed 'n feed formulations are not very efficient and contribute heavily to urban pollution. If you need to fertilize your lawn, a straight fertilizer (either organic or synthetic chemical) will do the trick, but February is too early - late March or April is better. If you need to treat for weeds, either spot weed or pull by hand. Weed 'n feed formulations apply the weed killer far too broadly, covering areas in which no weeds occur, and leach too easily into ground water and storm water runoffs. They are some major pollutants of our rivers and streams. And they are not an efficient use of the herbicide = you spend more money for poor results. The only product similar to a weed 'n feed I would recommend is corn gluten meal and it is not marketed as such. It is a natural pre-emergent herbicide as well as having some good fertilization ability, specially when used on lawns. Otherwise, any organic lawn fertilizer is preferrable. As to when your daughter can resume play on the lawn, I'd wait until after a couple of good rains or several deep irrigations. Most herbicides will dissipate fairly rapidly into the soil with water and will be pretty much harmless after a week to 10 days. Slow release fertilizer will persist on the surface for awhile, but it will be beaded or granular and noticeable, otherwise fertilizer too, will dissipate into the soil. Just make sure she wears shoes and you wash her hands well after play - she will be fine. pam - gardengal |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
Next time read the precautions BEFORE you threaten the health and welfare of your children. Then don't buy the crap and learn to use simple compost and organic fertilizers to end up with a lawn where the weeds are out competed On 22 Feb 2003 10:19:15 -0800, (Hollered Fried) wrote: Hello, I have applied "Weed & Feed" to our lawn. Now I would like to know when my 15month-old daughter will be able to play there again. The bag has thousands of warnings and precautions, but does not say a word about my question. We live in SC, so it is nice outside already.... Thank you for any help! Jana Regards, tomj |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
"Pam" wrote in message ... Holger Friebe wrote: Hello, I have applied "Weed & Feed" to our lawn. Now I would like to know when my 15month-old daughter will be able to play there again. The bag has thousands of warnings and precautions, but does not say a word about my question. We live in SC, so it is nice outside already.... Thank you for any help! Jana The other posts suggesting you consider going organic are very appropos. Weed 'n feed formulations are not very efficient and contribute heavily to urban pollution. If you need to fertilize your lawn, a straight fertilizer (either organic or synthetic chemical) will do the trick, but February is too early - late March or April is better. If you need to treat for weeds, either spot weed or pull by hand. Weed 'n feed formulations apply the weed killer far too broadly, covering areas in which no weeds occur, and leach too easily into ground water and storm water runoffs. They are some major pollutants of our rivers and streams. And they are not an efficient use of the herbicide = you spend more money for poor results. The only product similar to a weed 'n feed I would recommend is corn gluten meal and it is not marketed as such. It is a natural pre-emergent herbicide as well as having some good fertilization ability, specially when used on lawns. Otherwise, any organic lawn fertilizer is preferrable. If her lawn grass is a running rather than clumping variety, and the lawn is a rough lawn not a show lawn, using a high nitrogen chemical fertiliser to badly burn any flat weeds is another option. |
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weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
If it were my child, dog, cat, ferret, snake, rat, bat, oink or otherwise, I
wouldn't allow them on the lawn till the following year when, by that time, all traces of the poison will have washed into the drinking water. So, my answer, dude, is; I would not anything alive on a lawn treated with atrazine. On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 03:10:32 GMT, "Tim B" wrote: Dude. They put the material on on already and want to know when their child can play in the yard. "Pam" wrote in message ... Holger Friebe wrote: Hello, I have applied "Weed & Feed" to our lawn. Now I would like to know when my 15month-old daughter will be able to play there again. The bag has thousands of warnings and precautions, but does not say a word about my question. We live in SC, so it is nice outside already.... Thank you for any help! Jana The other posts suggesting you consider going organic are very appropos. Weed 'n feed formulations are not very efficient and contribute heavily to urban pollution. If you need to fertilize your lawn, a straight fertilizer (either organic or synthetic chemical) will do the trick, but February is too early - late March or April is better. If you need to treat for weeds, either spot weed or pull by hand. Weed 'n feed formulations apply the weed killer far too broadly, covering areas in which no weeds occur, and leach too easily into ground water and storm water runoffs. They are some major pollutants of our rivers and streams. And they are not an efficient use of the herbicide = you spend more money for poor results. The only product similar to a weed 'n feed I would recommend is corn gluten meal and it is not marketed as such. It is a natural pre-emergent herbicide as well as having some good fertilization ability, specially when used on lawns. Otherwise, any organic lawn fertilizer is preferrable. As to when your daughter can resume play on the lawn, I'd wait until after a couple of good rains or several deep irrigations. Most herbicides will dissipate fairly rapidly into the soil with water and will be pretty much harmless after a week to 10 days. Slow release fertilizer will persist on the surface for awhile, but it will be beaded or granular and noticeable, otherwise fertilizer too, will dissipate into the soil. Just make sure she wears shoes and you wash her hands well after play - she will be fine. pam - gardengal |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 13:17:59 GMT, Tom Jaszewski
wrote: Next time read the precautions BEFORE you threaten the health and welfare of your children. Then don't buy the crap and learn to use simple compost and organic fertilizers to end up with a lawn where the weeds are out competed Ya know, this is so true. I had all sorts of winter and summer weeds in the turfgrass when the house was first built. I continued to mow before weeds went to seed, I fertilized at half the rate the bag said to use (certified organic) and top dress with compost, about 1/4 inch every spring, hand pulled larger thistles, and I have not a weed. Henbit is a pretty little wildflower in winter and so I don't do anything with that. It helps aerate the soil and melts in April when the heat arrives. If people would simply give it a chance and stop being lemmings, led by the cutesy commercial ads with cartoon weeds and bugs (which are actually insects, not bugs) we'd be a much safer place to live. |
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 16:36:46 GMT, animaux
wrote: lemmings I LIKE lemmings.....:) Importance to people Inuit do not eat lemmings, nor do they make any use of their small skins. However, those Inuit who support themselves in whole or in part by trapping benefit indirectly from the "run" of arctic foxes that follows each lemming peak. One of the Inuit names for the collared lemming is kilangmiutak, which means "one-who-comes-from-the-sky." The legend of lemmings falling from the sky is common to Inuit all across the North American Arctic and Scandinavia. It probably arose because of the sudden appearance of lemmings when the snow melts following a winter of intensive reproduction. Lemmings, particularly the collared lemming with its presumed origin from the sky, were sometimes used by shamans ("medicine men") as a source of supernatural powers. Lemmings are a vital part of the rather simple web of life on the tundra, and they help to teach us how intricate even that simple ecosystem is. Their burrowing changes the arctic soil. Their feeding habits influence the composition of the plant community on the tundra. And trappers appreciate them for another reason. Because arctic fox numbers rise and fall according to the abundance of lemmings, the income of people who depend on fox trapping for a livelihood is linked to lemmings. The influence of lemmings extends far beyond the Arctic. A lemming population decline may produce a surplus of Snowy Owls that will, for a time, flood into southern Canada to the delight of bird watchers. Meanwhile, the tundra ecosystem is gathering its resources in preparation for the outburst of energy that will come with the next lemming year. Regards, tomj |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:54:56 GMT, Tom Jaszewski
wrote: On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 16:36:46 GMT, animaux wrote: lemmings I LIKE lemmings.....:) Importance to people Inuit do not eat lemmings, nor do they make any use of their small skins. However, those Inuit who support themselves in whole or in part by trapping benefit indirectly from the "run" of arctic foxes that follows each lemming peak. One of the Inuit names for the collared lemming is kilangmiutak, which means "one-who-comes-from-the-sky." The legend of lemmings falling from the sky is common to Inuit all across the North American Arctic and Scandinavia. It probably arose because of the sudden appearance of lemmings when the snow melts following a winter of intensive reproduction. Lemmings, particularly the collared lemming with its presumed origin from the sky, were sometimes used by shamans ("medicine men") as a source of supernatural powers. Lemmings are a vital part of the rather simple web of life on the tundra, and they help to teach us how intricate even that simple ecosystem is. Their burrowing changes the arctic soil. Their feeding habits influence the composition of the plant community on the tundra. And trappers appreciate them for another reason. Because arctic fox numbers rise and fall according to the abundance of lemmings, the income of people who depend on fox trapping for a livelihood is linked to lemmings. The influence of lemmings extends far beyond the Arctic. A lemming population decline may produce a surplus of Snowy Owls that will, for a time, flood into southern Canada to the delight of bird watchers. Meanwhile, the tundra ecosystem is gathering its resources in preparation for the outburst of energy that will come with the next lemming year. Regards, tomj Okay, now I like Lemmings too! I also love sheep, so I couldn't say "people flock like sheep..." Now what? Dopes? People flock like dopes? V:) |
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:00:20 GMT, animaux
wrote: Okay, now I like Lemmings too! I also love sheep, so I couldn't say "people flock like sheep..." Now what? Dopes? People flock like dopes? V:) Yup dopes and "icidal"! Regards, tomj |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
Thank you, Pam, for answering my question and giving additional
advice. After the first "grumpy" answer in this newsgroup I thought "Oh, fudge! Shoot me! how helpful is THAT?". I moved to South Carolina and am probably the most "organic" person in miles here. The first year I sat in my 1acre yard and tried to pull out weeds. At home I never ever used any herbicides, it just was not necessary. Here we´ve wasted tons of water the first summer - until I said it´s just too much just to keep some silly grass green. If you don´t water enough, the grass dies, which makes room for weeds to grow even more. We reseeded but it became cold earlier than usual. So the grass did not grow thickly and dense enough. Again - room for weeds to flourish in early-spring-like South Carolina winters. I applied Lyme to adjust the pH of the soil (red clay - the plants either dry out or rott in the moist ground or are taken by some fungus, yumm). Nothing really worked out. Now with chasing a toddler around I do not have the time anymore to do much in the yard (well, I just cannot do anything and stay focused. 30-second-projects are about what I get accomplished these days). So what can I do with my lawn ( I treated only a part of it, so my daughter still has places to play)? A nice neighbor told me that "Weed & Feed" applied in winter made the lawn look better in spring. So I blindly applied that stuff (I´ve never had heard of it, I am German and still have to learn many terms and products of gardening). Are there any internet pages to order organic fertilizers (do organic herbicides even exist?). Thank again, Pam! Jana |
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Tom Jaszewski expounded:
pH is a figment of inorganic gardeners imagination.... Tom, that's not true. You need to put in a disclaimer that it depends on where you live. Without limestone, my soil is naturally 4.5 to 5....way to acid to grow grass. And I do grow a nice lawn, organically, using regular old fashioned limestone applications twice a year. -- Ann, Gardening in zone 6a Just south of Boston, MA ******************************** |
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I applied Lyme to adjust the pH of the soil (red clay - the plants
either dry out or rott in the moist ground or are taken by some fungus, yumm _______________________ I hope you meant lime. HA! (sorry..just couldnt resist). Kara Tyson Lyme Disease Support Group of AL |
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Do a googel search under "organic lawn care" - you will find dozens of
sites that will outline how and when to go about tending to a lawn using only organic methods, as well as offering an array of organic lawn care products. I have found that most organic products have a limited local region where they are offered, so check to see what is available in your area. You can also get organic products from mail order, but sending fertilizer by the mail seems to me to be an unnecessary shipping expense if you can get it locally - most of the products will be very smiliar anyway. Timing is just as important as the product you use, so check with your local county extension service for a lawn care calender for your area. Lawns can be a huge drain on natural resources and contribute heavily to unnecessary pesticide and fertilizer pollution. Develop a tolerance for some weeds and water wisely, fertilize sparingly and mow high - a healthy lawn will outcompete weeds and be more resistant to drought conditions. And you will have to use NO products which could harm you, your child or the environment. pam - gardengal Holger Friebe wrote: Thank you, Pam, for answering my question and giving additional advice. After the first "grumpy" answer in this newsgroup I thought "Oh, fudge! Shoot me! how helpful is THAT?". I moved to South Carolina and am probably the most "organic" person in miles here. The first year I sat in my 1acre yard and tried to pull out weeds. At home I never ever used any herbicides, it just was not necessary. Here we´ve wasted tons of water the first summer - until I said it´s just too much just to keep some silly grass green. If you don´t water enough, the grass dies, which makes room for weeds to grow even more. We reseeded but it became cold earlier than usual. So the grass did not grow thickly and dense enough. Again - room for weeds to flourish in early-spring-like South Carolina winters. I applied Lyme to adjust the pH of the soil (red clay - the plants either dry out or rott in the moist ground or are taken by some fungus, yumm). Nothing really worked out. Now with chasing a toddler around I do not have the time anymore to do much in the yard (well, I just cannot do anything and stay focused. 30-second-projects are about what I get accomplished these days). So what can I do with my lawn ( I treated only a part of it, so my daughter still has places to play)? A nice neighbor told me that "Weed & Feed" applied in winter made the lawn look better in spring. So I blindly applied that stuff (I´ve never had heard of it, I am German and still have to learn many terms and products of gardening). Are there any internet pages to order organic fertilizers (do organic herbicides even exist?). Thank again, Pam! Jana |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:24:24 GMT, Tom Jaszewski
wrote: On 23 Feb 2003 18:12:32 -0800, (Holger Friebe) wrote: (do organic herbicides even exist?). develop a healthy soil food web and weeds are out competed... use compost tea and aerate and top dress with good quality compost and weeds will cease to exist. pH is a figment of inorganic gardeners imagination.... Regards, tomj That's correct. I'd also add that many of the turfgrass weeds are indicator weeds. They indicate poor, starved soil. Use organic fertilizer (make sure it says CERTIFIED organic on the bag or it's not) and do a search on turfgrass management, organically. Not YOU, Tom, but Holger. V |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 05:59:33 -0500, Ann wrote:
Tom Jaszewski expounded: pH is a figment of inorganic gardeners imagination.... Tom, that's not true. You need to put in a disclaimer that it depends on where you live. Without limestone, my soil is naturally 4.5 to 5....way to acid to grow grass. And I do grow a nice lawn, organically, using regular old fashioned limestone applications twice a year. Do you have the soil tested? How do you know it is still so low in pH? |
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animaux wrote: On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 05:59:33 -0500, Ann wrote: Tom Jaszewski expounded: pH is a figment of inorganic gardeners imagination.... Tom, that's not true. You need to put in a disclaimer that it depends on where you live. Without limestone, my soil is naturally 4.5 to 5....way to acid to grow grass. And I do grow a nice lawn, organically, using regular old fashioned limestone applications twice a year. Do you have the soil tested? How do you know it is still so low in pH? One indication it is too acidic without doing any testing is the amount of moss it produces. A mossy lawn is very indicative of too low a soil pH. And I have to agree with Ann that proper pH levels are a concern. Less so with more ornamental plants which are more tolerant of a range of soil pH, but quite important when it comes to growing a healthy lawn or vegetables, neither of which thrive in the acidic soils that are common to parts of the east and west coast. pam - gardengal |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:10:55 GMT, animaux
wrote: Okay, start again. Rule number one: Never blindly do what a nice neighbor tells you to do. My neighbor shoots and eats mourning doves in his backyard, puts down 25 pounds of Ironite yearly, and waters every day for 5 minutes. I wont be taking his advice! I don't recommend eating at his house either! Eating mourning doves is on par with eating a pet cat. Aren't there laws against firing weapons in a populated area? zhan |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:35:10 GMT, Pam wrote:
One indication it is too acidic without doing any testing is the amount of moss it produces. A mossy lawn is very indicative of too low a soil pH. And I have to agree with Ann that proper pH levels are a concern. Less so with more ornamental plants which are more tolerant of a range of soil pH, but quite important when it comes to growing a healthy lawn or vegetables, neither of which thrive in the acidic soils that are common to parts of the east and west coast. pam - gardengal Oh, I agree with Ann, having lived on Long Island, the island of lost pines and acid! I had many customers come to me with their woes of pH problems. As soon as they started using pelletized lime, their pH didn't need as much adjustment each year, or even the twice a year people were using lime. Nothing will KEEP the pH down forever, but I was wondering if it was checked to see that maybe liming was unnecessary for a season or so. V |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:09:26 GMT, zhanataya wrote:
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:10:55 GMT, animaux wrote: Okay, start again. Rule number one: Never blindly do what a nice neighbor tells you to do. My neighbor shoots and eats mourning doves in his backyard, puts down 25 pounds of Ironite yearly, and waters every day for 5 minutes. I wont be taking his advice! I don't recommend eating at his house either! Eating mourning doves is on par with eating a pet cat. Aren't there laws against firing weapons in a populated area? zhan This is Texas. However, I'm sure there are laws, but I'm not in the city (so to speak). This is the same man who took a neighbors cat to the woods, dumped it and would not tell the neighbor where he dumped it. It was a manx cat, beautiful and not a bother to anyone. I did warn the cats owner that this idiot would do something like that, but they didn't take heed. This idiot also goes wild boar hunting and he hung it, dead, on the basketball hoop eyesore in his driveway. THAT was not acceptable to me and I called police and he had to take it down. But oh what a ****ing asshole this guy is. V |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:35:10 GMT, Pam wrote:
One indication it is too acidic without doing any testing is the amount of moss it produces. A mossy lawn is very indicative of too low a soil pH. And I have to agree with Ann that proper pH levels are a concern. Less so with more ornamental plants which are more tolerant of a range of soil pH, but quite important when it comes to growing a healthy lawn or vegetables, neither of which thrive in the acidic soils that are common to parts of the east and west coast. pam - gardengal Oh, I agree with Ann, having lived on Long Island, the island of lost pines and acid! I had many customers come to me with their woes of pH problems. As soon as they started using pelletized lime, their pH didn't need as much adjustment each year, or even the twice a year people were using lime. Nothing will KEEP the pH down forever, but I was wondering if it was checked to see that maybe liming was unnecessary for a season or so. V |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:09:26 GMT, zhanataya wrote:
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:10:55 GMT, animaux wrote: Okay, start again. Rule number one: Never blindly do what a nice neighbor tells you to do. My neighbor shoots and eats mourning doves in his backyard, puts down 25 pounds of Ironite yearly, and waters every day for 5 minutes. I wont be taking his advice! I don't recommend eating at his house either! Eating mourning doves is on par with eating a pet cat. Aren't there laws against firing weapons in a populated area? zhan This is Texas. However, I'm sure there are laws, but I'm not in the city (so to speak). This is the same man who took a neighbors cat to the woods, dumped it and would not tell the neighbor where he dumped it. It was a manx cat, beautiful and not a bother to anyone. I did warn the cats owner that this idiot would do something like that, but they didn't take heed. This idiot also goes wild boar hunting and he hung it, dead, on the basketball hoop eyesore in his driveway. THAT was not acceptable to me and I called police and he had to take it down. But oh what a ****ing asshole this guy is. V |
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_______________________
I hope you meant lime. Kara Tyson Lyme Disease Support Group of AL Of course! I am German, will I be forgiven? Jana |
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animaux expounded:
Do you have the soil tested? How do you know it is still so low in pH? Yes, I do. And for the second, because I retest. Really, I think after growing this lawn for 25 years I do have a clue. -- Ann, Gardening in zone 6a Just south of Boston, MA ******************************** |
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Ann expounded:
Yes, I do. And for the second, because I retest. Really, I think after growing this lawn for 25 years I do have a clue. Victoria, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound so churlish. I just got home from work and hadn't unwound yet! -- Ann, Gardening in zone 6a Just south of Boston, MA ******************************** |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:07:10 -0500, Ann wrote:
animaux expounded: Do you have the soil tested? How do you know it is still so low in pH? Yes, I do. And for the second, because I retest. Really, I think after growing this lawn for 25 years I do have a clue. Ann, I never meant to imply otherwise. You should know better. I suppose I used the opportunity for others to read the exchange and have their soil tested before adding lime. I know people down HERE in calciferous soil with a pH of 8.5 in many places, with only a few inches of soil who add lime! Did you know about pelletized lime? You may not need that second app. if you use it. I don't know about where you are, but it helped down on Long Island. Completely different conditions, I'm aware. Victoria |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:38:18 -0500, Ann wrote:
Ann expounded: Yes, I do. And for the second, because I retest. Really, I think after growing this lawn for 25 years I do have a clue. Victoria, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound so churlish. I just got home from work and hadn't unwound yet! No prob. We are having an ice storm after a few days of 80 degrees. It's enough to drive me wacky. Victoria |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
animaux expounded:
Did you know about pelletized lime? You may not need that second app. if you use it. I don't know about where you are, but it helped down on Long Island. Completely different conditions, I'm aware. I haven't heard good stuf about that pelletized lime, we were told not to use it in an organic veggie garden, and I don't mind the white stuff, so I use that instead. -- Ann, Gardening in zone 6a Just south of Boston, MA ******************************** |
weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
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weed & Feed - when may my baby go back on the lawn ??
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 06:29:10 -0500, Ann wrote:
animaux expounded: Did you know about pelletized lime? You may not need that second app. if you use it. I don't know about where you are, but it helped down on Long Island. Completely different conditions, I'm aware. I haven't heard good stuf about that pelletized lime, we were told not to use it in an organic veggie garden, and I don't mind the white stuff, so I use that instead. The fine white powdery stuff works just as well as the pelletized. But, the white powder is quite messy and easily inhaled. The pelletized stuff (for the lawn) distributes well in a broadcast spreader. |
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