What Fertilizer are you using this season? In this video I cover the pros and cons of using expensive fertilizer vs cheap fertilizer.
In the first section we go over your common big box store fertilizers. The first type found in many stores is a general lawn food. These are know to provide a quick green up and tend to push a lot of top growth and contain high levels of nitrogen usually around %30percent or more. A popular form of this lawn fertilizer is Scotts Lawn Food in the Green bag which is personally one of my favorite and best fertilizer for a quick green up.
Another common fertilizer found at your local store is Weed n Feed which are a good option for the homeowner that what’s a quick and easy solution to feed the lawn and kill weeds at the same time. Weed and feed fertilizer contains the herbicide 2,4-D which is especially good for controlling dandelions and clover while at the same time feeding and thickening your lawn.
Another fertilizer that contains a weed killer is Scotts Starter Fertilizer + Weed preventer. This is a starter spring fertilizer to be used while seeding a lawn. It contains the herbicide Mesotrione aka Tenacity which is the only herbicide that can be used while seeding and overseeing a lawn. It is very important to apply this during spring seeding as weed pressure can ruin your seeding project.
We also cover organic fertilizers that you can buy locally such as Milorganite and Purely Organic lawn Food. Milorganite is a slow release lawn fertilizer That will give you the darkest green up of any of the other store bought fertilizers due to its iron content. Unfortunately due to its increase in demand, it is hard to find AND the price has literally tripled in the last two years. Because the cost is so high per pound of nitrogen. I feel there are much better cost effective options on the market.
There are many premium fertilizers on the market such as yard mastery , Next products , Andersons etc. Some of the benefits of using these fertilizers are they usually contain more organic materials, micro nutrients and iron then your typical store bought fertilizer. Today I will be applying a light application of yardmastery flagship fertilizer to my front lawn. This fertilizer is a mix of organic and synthetic fertilizers and it contains biosolids similarly to milorganite fertilizer which is slow release and will make your lawn dark green longer.
The last premium and some would say expensive fertilizer I cover is liquid fertilizer . These provide a quick shot of Nitrogen phosphorus and potassium along with micronutrients . I am personally new to using liquid fertilizers and cant speak about there long term results. They are commonly used on golf coarses to provide a quick green up to their greens. I will be testing out the simple lawn solutions 16-4-8 this season on my low mowed Kentucky bluegrass and will follow up with my results in future videos.
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