Getting a Green Lawn
George Marshall April 24 2008 02:47:39 PM
Several neighbors have been asking what I put on my lawn since the grass was looking so green. I just pulled the ingredients from Jerry Baker's book Jerry's Secrets for the Lawn of Your Dreams
Start with putting down what Jerry calls the Spring Wake-Up Tonic just as your grass is waking up. To make this tonic, mix 25 lbs. of pelletized lime, 25 lbs. of pelletized gypsum, 1 lbs. of Epsom salts, and 2.5 lbs. of bone meal in a wheelbarrow. This is enough to do small lawns like the ones in our development. Apply this mixture to your lawn with your handheld spreader. Make sure you get the pelletized lime and pellitized gypsum. I ended up using just regular powdered gypsum and it didn't spread very evenly. I don't know have a source for the gypsum but for the lime I had to go to American Pride Coop in Mead, CO, phone 970-535-4450. They sell a 50# bag of lime for $13.00. Gypsum 40# bag at Lowes = $8.97. The bone meal = $3.97 I got it at Wal-mart.
Follow up with a dose of Get-Up-And-Grow Mix: Mix 1 cup of baby shampoo, 1 cup of ammonia, 1 cup of regular cola (not diet), and 4 tbsp. of instant tea granules in a 20 gallon hose-end sprayer, and apply to the point of run-off. Shampoo = $1.97, ammonia = .97, tea = $2.62, coke = 1.37. I purchased all of them at Wal-Mart.
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