GaryCinChicago wrote:NO! ... unless you plan on living till 2075!

I do. 2100 at minimum. Hey, it may not work out, but that's the plan.

And I agree 100% with Andy's thinking.

I'm hesitant to do so because of multiple sourcing; it all adds up. I'd rather keep out as much as possible.

Ah, yes! Someone else ringing the bells at the gates of Hell... Ding, Avon calling! Uh...would you like some...er, powder for those...horns? I personally wouldn't recommend it for someone with less than an acre of land, unless it was a half acre with no neighbors. The process of turning Comfrey int...

Isn't it, more properly, Carmel Brown?

I'm fortunate to have a Maytag that's been running since forever. Like Gary says, it has two cycles...very simple, not much to go wrong. If you get a front loader, you'll need to leave the door open for proper drying (if you have a top loader, you should be doing the same). So if your laundry area w...

My problem with applying the Bonide 299 iron is *HOW* it is applied. Using a 2 gallon pump sprayer is no different than today's LCO's spraying like they do. In the end - no different than that homemade ferrous ammonium sulfate, that I posted. All for aesthetics IMHO, and that's all it is - just an ...

* Or is this purely for ascetics, to compensate for the deficiency, like most every Fe application done professionally? Yep, spraying is aesthetics only. It would, over a period of...decades? Centuries? ...add enough iron to the soil. However, if somebody's complaining of a really pale lawn, sprayi...

Pull-eeze! Look at what we do, not just what others do. We're not angels. A couple PPM of Lead isn't terror-and-death any more than the stuff we use to kill Poa Annua. Indeed not, although I will limit the soil exposure where possible. Turning my own lead and cadmium back around to the soil, absolu...

Here's a question I ask myself: Assume the leaves, clippings, trimmings and other yard litter is contaminated - and some will be, to one degree or another since you can't really control the inputs in a municipal setting. What then? Do what our township does and try to sell it to unknowing people wh...

Morph, You mentioned you have too much sun even for the higher sun-tolerant begonias. Not to hijack your post, but do you have some experience with begonias? I want to plant some around the tree in my front yard this weekend, but I've been debating whether there is too much sun for the green-leaf v...

Personally, I call it Lord of the OM: The 10% Solution. To mix metaphors. Badly.

I'm thinking about it. Tempting, very tempting. Is there a specific place it should be put? Would ringing it with a soil blocker help to keep it from spreading? How often and how hard can I cut it back for the compost bin? What other soil uses does it have besides the compost? Also--is that a perenn...

My concern is what do they actually mix in with the leaves. If the town picks them (leaves) up with one of the vac trucks are they introducing contaminated road sand, salt, oil, gas, and other heavy metals. Also town residents drop off their leaf bags as well. Who knows what is in there. That does ...

Not really, no. You already mixed it up, and are planning on the coffee grounds, which is enough of a mix to make me happy. This year, I'm using three things--soybean meal, Milorganite, and cracked corn. You also used three. Warranted, if you should stumble across a cheap organic feeding that's comp...

This is one case where I agree; Milorganite is not a good choice for this soil.

Typical me. I only read down far enough to get the UMASS page and dived in. Here were my initial reactions (notes to self): - "triage case" - so-so Ca, low Mg - good ratio - maybe 2/3 Cal and 1/3 Dol - OWWWWWW on CEC - same block as Morph's mom? Bad grading? - don't like the BaseSat - needs B & Cu ...

Aluminum 513? Fortunately at that pH it's not available or you'd have a barren wasteland.

Um, Andy, are you seeing any inconsistencies you don't like with the first test, cause I sure am. Those numbers are not even CLOSE.

I've dropped milorganite during the summer and throughout the year a couple times, but have been synthetic, and pushed as much N as I possibly could. My soil struggled, and just seemed dead. I've always had a very green thumb, and something just didn't feel right with my lawn. I can definitely feel...

I have the bad habit of being a smoker but the one good thing is that I would walk the rear yard every day last year during a smoke and just pull off the flowers before they went to seed. I didn't even bother with roots since the rear yard is already a mess...I just didn't want seeds blowing to the...

Honestly? I'm as organic as I can be, and I'd still use Weed B Gone Chickweed, Clover, and Oxalis killer. You have so much there that I can't see removing it by hand. One shot should take it down, but you're going to need to make sure it's OK for Bermuda grass. I wouldn't blink on KBG, but I have no...

This is the one next door to my mother's--and shows that U Mass certainly isn't overestimating OM badly. 5% was about what I expected to see here, in a seven year old (I think) lawn. Ninja edit: I sent the thread URL to him so he can follow us arguing. This lawn is maintained synthetically (the You ...