This is an accurate description this month for me! With trying to restore the lawn, bounce the iron levels, and improve color, I just dropped again. For a grand total of 70 pounds per thousand of organics this month, 55 of that Milorganite.

So when we say it's hard to overfeed organically...we're really serious about that!

You need to set up a Milogranite processing factory at your place with the amount you use.

I wish I could. But we couldn't produce enough to cover the lawn and I'd need the output of the entire neighborhood...

With 4% iron in Milor. do you back off on the mix of spray iron? Cause I want to put a lot on this weekend.

I live in Mass, I've been meaning to go get a trailer load of Baystate Organic Fertilizer. I own a truck and 4 ton, 16 foot trailer, should be able to get 3-4 pallets full, I'll be sure to ask you all for local orders before I go. I hear this stuff is less than half the price of Milorganite. Milwaukee human poo vs. Boston human poo....meh....Sam Adams and Fenway Franks oh yea! LOL

Bavaria wrote:With 4% iron in Milor. do you back off on the mix of spray iron? Cause I want to put a lot on this weekend.

I have and will use both at the same time. When I use milorganite I got over double rate. That's weekly during the growing season. I also add spray iron at heavy rates

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Sam Adams and Fenway Franks oh yea!

If you want it to contain Fenway Franks, get it soon. Unlike Yankee Stadium hot dogs, Fenway Franks are not available in October.

Bavaria wrote:With 4% iron in Milor. do you back off on the mix of spray iron? Cause I want to put a lot on this weekend.

Nope. This is a soil application, 1-3% ferrous sulfate, 1-3% ferric chloride (depending on the mix) for a total of 4%. Both work out to about 15% iron as they're hydrated.

All things considered, I've probably bounced my soil iron by 45 PPM this year, with two more major Milorganite apps (and several sprays) to go.

Practically none of the Milorganite will foliar-absorb, except the iron in the dust that inevitably got on the leaf and then gets dew. I call it zero as I've never noticed any effect from it at all.

There's no harm in a foliar app of iron on top of the soil app.

Good because my neighbor across the street is kickin my a** with color, he applied scotts turf builder before the big storm.

tell him congratulations on feeding the watershed and the algal bloom

xxryu139xx wrote:tell him congratulations on feeding the watershed and the algal bloom

andy10917 wrote:

Sam Adams and Fenway Franks oh yea!

If you want it to contain Fenway Franks, get it soon. Unlike Yankee Stadium hot dogs, Fenway Franks are not available in October.

Now that there is just plain funny!

paulr wrote:I live in Mass, I've been meaning to go get a trailer load of Baystate Organic Fertilizer. I own a truck and 4 ton, 16 foot trailer, should be able to get 3-4 pallets full, I'll be sure to ask you all for local orders before I go. I hear this stuff is less than half the price of Milorganite. Milwaukee human poo vs. Boston human poo....meh....Sam Adams and Fenway Franks oh yea! LOL

i'm in Windsor CT, i'll take whatever my Acura can carry back home from Hadley

and Andy, that's just mean...

At the speed the Sox are fading I have no snappy comeback, besides, hey look! It's football season!! Now back to your regularly scheduled Milorganite talk.........

xxryu139xx wrote:tell him congratulations on feeding the watershed and the algal bloom

+1. I dropped Milo and soybean meal before the storm. At the end of the storm, it hadn't even really started to decay yet--and runoff from a lawn this dense (even with the reduced density this year) is zero.

Synthetics will boost color very quickly and very well...and then peter out fast and hard.

andy10917 wrote:

Sam Adams and Fenway Franks oh yea!

If you want it to contain Fenway Franks, get it soon. Unlike Yankee Stadium hot dogs, Fenway Franks are not available in October.

ouch!!

This website is BAD for my wallet!!

The only thing to make that picture any better would be a scratch and sniff version.

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That was what I stuffed into a small convertible last Saturday.

So question:

I have 6 of those bags leftover I could use on another lawn I plan on renovating either next spring or fall. That status of that soil (no test yet) is high sun, no maintenance, sparse grass, lots of weeds (crabgrass, POA), definately needs a big shot of organics, I aerated last month and that's it. Now everything I have read for fall treatments is "bulk up, go highest N possible, fast release, no slow release because the the grass is slowing down anyways"

So my question(s): If I plan on a synthetic high N fast feeding very soon, should I even bother putting down this milo? Will it do any good at all now in the Northeast? or should I save these bags until next summer? WWBLD? thanks!!