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Originally posted by familyguy
slow release is better and actually, organic turf fertilizer has blown me away with its results this year. really pays to treat the soil and not the grass.
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No kidding. I am sold completely on organic ferts.
We have one lawn that we have only made one application of chemical fert (it includes Barricade, we are working on reducing a poa problem) and the rest have been organic. This lawn is the best it has looked in the 5+ years we have been managing it. Crappy seed so there have been fungus problems in addition to the poa problem. Also have educated the customer on proper watering techniques. To control the fungus in the past, we tried the constant fungicide apps one year and it worked fine, but never got rid of the fungus, if we went over 3 weeks, it would start to come back. The next year we did the heavy nitrogen to try to grow it out of the fungus issues. Worked OK as well, but then we ended up with the same issues that golf courses have as well as still had to make a few fungicide apps. Middle of last year we started with Nature Safe and continued this year with it. Made one fungicide application for red thread and that is it. Color is phenomenal, growth is good--not too much, dollar spot, pythium and the other fungi are gone.
I am going to start working on converting all my customers to organic.