“What household item can I use to make my lawn deep green, I heard dish washing soap 1 part to 10 parts water
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To make your lawn deep green, you need to increase the amount of nitrogen and/or sunlight the lawn gets.
Well-rotted barnyard manure is the traditional way of increasing the amount of nitrogen available to the plants. Manure from birds (chickens, turkeys, ….) is especially high in nitrogen. It must be well-aged, or it will burn the lawn. (The grass just under a dog dropping will go brown and may die, but the grass around it will be deep green.)
Theoretically, you could increase the amount of nitrogen by applying dishwashing soap (NOT dishwasher detergent!)
However, I think the alkalinity of the soap would be as damaging as doggie doo, and for much the same reasons.
I can’t quite figure how you’d go about applying the solution, which sounds very concentrated, to me.
At one time, the cheapest and easiest way of greening-up a lawn was to sprinkle it with some urea. Unfortunately, it has been used for making some very nasty explosives, so that’s no longer an option.
For my own lawn, just over an acre, and prone to burdock and thistles, I use “Weed and Feed” or a similar product which combines a nitrogen fertilizer and a broadleaf weed-killer.
If you want a more “natural” urban approach, you can buy bags of “Dehydrated Bovine Something-or-Other”, which is just what you think it might be. (A gift for the man or woman who has everything?)
Roz Madrid
December 28, 2013 at 12:50 am