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RE: B1

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Of course, perhaps the reason we have such good results out here in the arid west is that while our soils are rich in minerals (you'll never suffer for a lack of phosphorus or potassium here!) they are Dickensianly poor in nitrogen and soil microbes. Under those circumstances, anything that encourages microbial activity in the soil is welcome.
 
I certainly understand the hesitancy many of you have about recommending (or even mentioning) a product the ingredients of which are not known. The marketing of the stuff doesn't help, either, full of as it is of 19th century snake-oil rhetoric. Nevertheless, I've seen it work, and work, and work again, to such a degree that my natural skepticism of all "easy solutions" has been overcome. Now that's not to say that there aren't other products out there that would have the same effect (or even better); of course we can't compare because of the lack of ingredient info. Even so, there aren't even any products on the national market that claim to do the same things Superthrive claims to do. Ultimately, I'm willing to indulge in what may be a little bit of magical thinking about a product that seems to work and that certainly has never harmed any plant I have been aware of. Know, though, that my bloodline and familial culture encourages such magical thinking,
 
 BTW, I've poured Coke on the ground with no apparent change, but I've never tried it on a lawn. I think I'll go in search of one (my yard is gloriously free of turf) and put a Coke to the only potentially good use I've heard for it.
 
Len
 
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Subject: Re: [GWL] B1

For anyone who has ever spilled Coke (high fructose corn sugars) on their lawn or spilled some sugar on turf you'd be amazed at how the lawn 'miraculously' takes off.  Not so amazing though when you realize that the sugars are simply stimulating the soil microbes and giving them a jolt.

Andrew Messinger
The Hampton Gardener
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