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Why Fertilizer Stopped Working on Your Lawn
Same bag, same schedule, less response every year. What nitrogen use efficiency actually is, what the Iowa State trials found, and the half of that finding the marketing leaves out. Read more...
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Your New Sod Has Almost No Roots Yet
Sod arrives as a cut mat with most of its root system left at the farm, and it has to root into whatever the excavator left behind. Here is what... Read more...
Two heads of leaf lettuce side by side on a kitchen counter, roots still attached, one noticeably smaller and paler than the other
Your Vegetables Respond Better Than Your Lawn Does
Across the meta-analyses, vegetables are the best-responding crop category there is. Here are the numbers, the finding about produce keeping longer after you pick it, and the trial where it... Read more...
A single finger-sized aeration core plug held between thumb and forefinger, showing a tuft of grass, a thatch band and pale compacted soil with almost no roots
You Just Aerated. You Have About Two Weeks.
Core aeration opens several hundred channels straight into the root zone, and they close in about a fortnight. What the turf research says about using that window — what a... Read more...
A jug of Humic+ Concentrate sitting in mown grass at the edge of a green cornfield on a Delaware family farm
Why Your Lawn Gives Up in August
Two lawns, same yard, same water, same fertilizer. One holds through August and one quits. The difference is root depth — and the turf research on how you build it... Read more...