Scotts Weed Control Fertilizer Killed Our Lawn!! HELP!!!

[brooklyn1]

Glad to be of help. Practically all municipalities in the US have zoning and code laws and do employ zoning and code enforcement officers. Zoning is typically enforced because zoning is very closely tied to insurance regulations, but code enforcement is very subjective, especially in smaller communities because there nepotism runs rampant; as you note all the gossipy ratting on each other. Code enforcement officers usually have regular employment and do their code violation inspections as a side job, whereas code officers aren't compensated very well so payola is the norm.

[MICHELLE H.]

We used 10,000 square feet of fertilizer, on a 2,500 square foot lawn, so this shows that our 10 to 12 year old drop spreader malfunctioned, and it put down way too much fertilizer.

We will follow your advice, and give the lawn plenty of water, and hope that the roots can regenerate, and HOPEFULLY some Green grass will start to grow back!?

[brooklyn1]

Once the grass begins to rejuvenate wait for a cool wet spell and over seed with a sparse application of grass seed. If your grass does not rejuvenate then you will need to begin from square one. Don't apply too much seed, if it stands in piles it will begin to compost and the heat generated will kill the seed.... with lawns everything in moderation, less is more, even too much water will harm a lawn. From now on use a hand held broadcast spreader (provides more accuracy with smaller lawns) and cut all settings by half... do NOT fall into the trap of adding a bit more with the thought of being generous... be miserly... when applying any lawn chemicals including fertilzer pretend you're salting a pot of stew. And don't permit children and especially pets to walk on a freshly treated lawn, and leave your gardening footwear outdoors. A good idea to remove all gardening clothing and launder immediately, separately, and shower immediately too. Never permit children, pets, or anyone, help treat a lawn. In most municipalities these days flagging a freshly treated lawn is manditory.

[Billy]

Home of the Brave and Land of the Fee.

Wonder whatever happened to the "Land of the Free". Heh, probably privatized, derivatized, and sold to China, not that we'll ever see a dime of it.

[Billy]

Following Shelly's advice? Shelly who normally can't find his butt with both hands? You must be a kindred spirit. The helpless following the blind.

Let's also hope that your nitrites and phosphates don't find their way into city wells, which will aid in creating blue babies, or into waterways that create dead zones in the sea. The chemferts will pass with time, so why don't you just suck it up, and keep the problem where where you made it, instead of flushing it off to others to deal with? Oh, that's right, YOU want a green lawn.

Why don't you just spay paint it until next Spring?

[Bill who putters]

Not for me I'd rather have a stinking infested jungle. Something like Yoda's with stuff to eat or be eaten. But I Digress.

Sort of like astro tuff for folks that like looks with nary a thought other. Still they will not have to spray or think.

Bill

[Frank]

Thread is amusing. Fault is yours for not knowing how much lawn you have and for not checking spreader setting. You're always better off having to open spreader up as you go along or having to walk about more as too much fertilizer can brown lawn.

Personally I'd ditch the Scots plan. They make you a slave to your lawn making you spread stuff 5 times a year and their stuff is expensive.

[David Hare-Scott]

Home of the brave, land of the free. Amazing. Any politician who even mentioned they might bring in such laws here would be out on their ear.

David

[FarmI]

Good grief! That sounds absolutley disgusting.

I couldn't live in a place like that. I'd be complaining long and loud about loss of personal freedom.

[brooklyn1]

"FarmI" wrote in message news:4a4efc58$0$2850$ [e-mail]...

I don't care where one lives there are always rulz. When one lives in a community of hundreds, even thousands of homes, all close together on small lots there needs to be certain rulz. People are made very aware of all the rulz prior to purchase and made to agree to abide by signing a legal instrument at closing. The rulz are not all that strict, if one misses mowing now and again no one will care, but if after a few months the place looks likes it's been abandoned then the rulz will come into play. If you wonder why folks choose to live in such communities (aka bedroom communities) it's typically because they haven't much choice if they want to be within a reasonable commute to better jobs and not live in inner city tenements... and don't think for a second that there are no rulz with apartment and condo living. Not everyone can afford to live on large land in bucolic surroundings and still find money to raise a family, especially since the more rural the less employment opportunities and lower the wages. There is no loss of personal freedom, one *chooses* to live in those communities. And anyway there are always rulz for everyone... quite often some old geezer in this very rural area becomes senile, has no relatives, stops caring for themselves, stops paying utility bills and property taxes, and finally neighbors notice the 100 acre farm has gone to heck, animals are starving, and social services comes and hauls him off his dairy farm to the local funny farm and the county auctions the farm to pay the bills, them's the rulz. In the US ones freedom ends at their neighbor's nose.

[MICHELLE H.]

Brooklyn1,

Yes, once again you are absolutely right!! We live on a street where it is all single family houses, but houses that were built in the 1920's, so we all have SMALL yard, but the same size yards.

Everyone on my street, including us, we all have yards that are 0.11 acres in size. We all have 50 feet in the front, 50 feet in the back, and 100 feet on the sides. But the houses are VERY CLOSE together. The neighbors on both sides of me are probably like 10 feet from my house!!!

And yes, you are correct about the mowing. Now one will really care if you don't mow for a week or two, but if the grass gets 6 inches high or taller, and it makes your house and yard look messy, and your house looks abandoned, then your neighbors can go to our citys website and anonymously report you for what the city calls "Code Violations".

But like I said in my other post, you can also be reported for overgrown bushes/trees/shrubs, littler/debris/trash in your yard, peeling paint, fence violations, sign violations, building without a permit, unregistered vehicle in your driveway, etc, etc.

[enigma]

[e-mail] (MICHELLE H.) wrote in news: [e-mail]:

then you'd do better planting your lawn to something that doesn't grow over 6"... like, say, clover... or creeping thyme, which won't grow over 3" even when it's flowering and never needs mowing.

glad you live there & not me. lee