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Subject: Calcium Nitrate for home lawn
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North Shore Boyz |
Mill Bay, British Columbia
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Last fall I drove out of the big city to an Agri-Dealer and stocked up on a few supplies like cal-nitrate and of course it only comes in 25-50 kg and bigger bags.
Since I had so much extra, I tried some on my front lawn and now a second feeding this Spring. Wow what a differance it has made compared to the back lawn that I did not treat.
Question is, what other ferts should I give to my lawn every once in a while? In the past we've used the slow release Scotts Turf Builder and would rather not now. Would some 0-0-50 be applied at some time too?
Thanks.
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4/28/2009 8:24:40 PM
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UnkaDan |
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lawns like calcium,,might consider gypsum
If you brew tea it works as well,,,,also some HA does wonders.
I hate cutting grass so I don't use any of these,,heh heh
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4/28/2009 9:29:35 PM
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Tomato Man |
Colorado Springs, CO
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Why put your lawn on steroids and tighten-up the soil below with excessive chemicals that are going to kill the microbes ?
I put down corn gluten meal (9-0-0) on March 1st, core aerated on April 7th, and then applied a (4-2-3) blend of pastuerized poultry manure with humate, greensand and dry molasses on April 13th. My lawn is lush and green....and I gave it the first mowing of the season this evening with a high blade setting. I did NOT catch the cuttings so that the nitrogen benefit of those clippings could be directly re-applied to the emerging lawn.
Consider going organic with the lawn too.....and leave the chemical over-dosing for the other guys. One can achieve lawn and garden success without using any supplement having an N-P-K component that has a double-digit number !
That 0-0-50 stuff is very excessive. You still have time to re-think your plans !
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4/28/2009 11:46:41 PM
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