Re: Reliable lawn-care stats?

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 Your farmer neighbor who only fertilizes once a year probably doesn't have a dairy herd. There are more cows than people here, and all that crap has to go somewhere. All the dairy farms have big tanks, and numerous times per year they spread slurried poop. It smells very fertile around here much of the time. We also have some very upscale neighborhoods, and you're right -- those lawn maintenance trucks do keep busy. It would be instructive to compare farm/lawn runoff content measured at the source point.
Subdivisions & HOAs are notorious for several crimes against nature, like the "no clotheslines" rule. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Lynn Jenkins <ljenks@tds.net>
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:27 am
Subject: Re: [GWL] Reliable lawn-care stats?

If you live in/near a well-to-do suburban area where everyone uses 
one of the Chemical Lawn companies, you would "buy it."  (that lawns 
are  dosed more heavily than farm fields.  My farmer neighbor only 
fertilizes in spring...down the road in suburbia, the green trucks 
are spraying 4 and 5 times per season! Subdivisions and their HOAs 
are notorious for pressuring homeowners to do the full lawn treatment.

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