I have a 5 week old lawn that is coming in very nice and thick. The hydroseed method is so much easier to establish than the hand seed/fertilizer method I used with my last house 7 years ago.
Anyways, according to Scotts, you should fertilize every other month (roughly 8 weeks) during the growing season for my North Eastern lawn. The logic is that more often will cause excessive growth and stress, and less often means fewer nutrients and a thinner lawn.
Then I started thinking about how fertilizers are suppose to work - releasing gradual amounts of nutrients for the microbes that break it down and supply the grass with a steady supply of energy. I would think that rain and temperature would greatly affect the usefulness life of fertilizers, regardless of additives manufactures use in the processing.
Therefore, I'm wondering if fertilizing every month with 1/2 the recommended fertilizer would produce better and more consistent results?
P.S. I'm only talking about doing this with turf builders , not weed or insect control fertilizers that would loss their effectives.
Anyways, according to Scotts, you should fertilize every other month (roughly 8 weeks) during the growing season for my North Eastern lawn. The logic is that more often will cause excessive growth and stress, and less often means fewer nutrients and a thinner lawn.
Then I started thinking about how fertilizers are suppose to work - releasing gradual amounts of nutrients for the microbes that break it down and supply the grass with a steady supply of energy. I would think that rain and temperature would greatly affect the usefulness life of fertilizers, regardless of additives manufactures use in the processing.
Therefore, I'm wondering if fertilizing every month with 1/2 the recommended fertilizer would produce better and more consistent results?
P.S. I'm only talking about doing this with turf builders , not weed or insect control fertilizers that would loss their effectives.