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The Plus and Minus of Ignoring Your Lawn
I have been doing NO lawn treatments for about 10 years now. No Lime, no Fertilizer, no herbicides, no insecticide.
The pluses have been no Expenses! And I do not have those heavy green up then yellow out as the Nitrogen based fertilizers suck the PH out of the soil.
The down side is that I have to admit the deer and my dogs poop is just is not that great a developing a thick turf. By July I am at least 50 % weeds and and some areas 100% weeds.
And this year I can see the grass is clumpy from my lack of interest.
I am wondering with the 10 years of nothing and a fairly balanced PH. Would I be better off with a low Nitrogen Organic like Milorganite or root instensive 10 6 4 or hell go with a high nitrogen fix ?
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That idea of a top dressing sounds interesting. I have lots of potholes, that I bump along on my tractor, that I have neglected and seem to be multiplying. I think some buried smalls stumps must have finally rotted out after 20 years.
Have a loader and back blade as tools. How successful would those be for top dressing? What topdressing material to use? How much material per acre?
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I live in Connecticut. My property is on the side of a hill that was a poor farmers pasture 100 years ago then turned to black birch saplings and trees less than 6 inch diameter or less then cleared 25 years ago. I have 10 acres surrounded by large farmers rubble stone pile walls. The section that was cleared for lawn is just under 4 acres and had all trees removed.
The soil is the soil that was scraped up during the clearing process, it is TOP Soil but probably not the top soil you speak of. It has lots of small stone making very hard to dig, have to pick axe first to remove anything.
I do not have the funds to buy 4" of topsoil to cover the 4 acres. Looking to make the best of a bad situation, or a least hold my ground (ha ha ha). If it cannot be automated using my existing tools these old bones are not doing it...
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Thanks for that tip on the manure spreader, never dawned on me how similar it is to a top dresser.
Probably buy some triple mix for now and get going, but like the composting idea long term.
Been looking to see if I could rent a millcreek 3200 top dresser and a core aerator. Wonder if my B7100 is big enough to pull it around loaded up on the slopes?
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Millcreek 3200 Top dresser
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