Long story short, our yard was addicted to synthetic fertilizer. The guy who lived here before fertilized on a monthly basis, the lawn was beautiful, but in reality it made it really weak. Last summer it got a bad fungus and when its 90 plus degrees most commercial fungicides will kill whatever is left. Ironically the guy at the feed store ( I was buying guinea pig food at the time) recommend corn gluten meal as an fungicide and great fertilizer. I had ready a few studies about it, I thought why not, and within two weeks the fungus was gone. Our lawn looked pretty bad, and then the hurricane came and the great garbage jaws that picked up debris ate the rest of my lawn (and my new planted shrubs).
So now that spring is here, we thought we would try corn meal again, figuring it can’t hurt our yard. The great thing about it is its non-toxic and the girls love to help spread it. By the end they were both white as a ghost from the dust and Eliza was spotted from running through the sprinkle while we watered it in. It would be awesome if this is our answer to going chemical free in the yard.
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