Lawn Vandalism-Who Should Pay?
Written: Nov 11 '00
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Pros: PHENOMENAL RESULTS
Cons: Be careful, apply evenly
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| normalmom's Full Review: Scotts Turf Builder Lawn Fertilizer |
About every three or four years, my husband goes on a landscaping craze. He goes out to Home Depot, or wherever it is that he goes and buys hundreds of dollars worth of stuff that he is barely ever going to use. Rakes, fertilizer, mulch, spreaders, stuff I can't identify. (In his defense our lawn normally does look like we are conducting and experiment in dense jungle undergrowth...)He maintains that we have been in our house for 10 years and it's about time that we have a great looking lawn. O.K. Honey, go to it. Just stay out of my garden.
Well he did buy Scotts Turf Builder. He has bought fertilizer before, but I never saw any difference. Well his work got busy and this stuff just sat there, day after day, week after week. Then a terrible thing happened...I got ambitious. Despite the fact that the grass was a foot high, I slopped this stuff in the spreader and ran around with it for a while, until the bag was empty. Good job! Now I am hardly obsessive when it comes to outside, so good enough is good enough, right?
WRONG!!! The next week when I cut the lawn, interesting little patterns started popping out of the grass. Dark green stripes, angles, corners, circles and other shapes. The weeds were dead all along those stripes. Wherever I had hit with the Scotts, it looked great! Well, unfortunately for me, the spots that I had missed were just as noticeable. In fact, they looked worse owing to the side by side comparison.
Through the summer I thought it would fade, but it just got darker and more noticeable. Two years later, there are still a few stripes in the back yard.
Well I have to hand it to Scotts, their product WORKS. If it could make (stripes) my lawn green, weed free, and soft after 3 kids, and their friends, three dogs, and their friends, and I get through running all over it, they have a GREAT product.
It was easy to use with a spreader, you just pour the granules in the bucket and go. It does have a heavy smell, so keep it away from you, and don't store it inside the house. BE CAREFUL, I guess you have to be a little bit precise when applying this stuff, try to go back and forth in straight lines, being careful to cover your area as evenly as possible.
The third year is coming up this spring, and my husband has already bought more Scotts to put on the lawn next spring, but it is locked in the shed until he gets around to doing it. He mumbled something about having me arrested if I vandalized his lawn again. I guess some people just have to do everything themselves, wonder why?
Recommended:
Yes
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