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Old Toad
Citizen
Username: Skewer1
Post Number: 12
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 3:46 pm: | 
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Used them for my lawn for a few months till I saw an article about how the ingredients they use in their fertilizer can cause cancer.
Am searching for lawn-care / fertilizing companies with safer ingredients. Any suggestions? Thx in advance |
dave23
Citizen
Username: Dave23
Post Number: 1371
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 4:19 pm: |
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Someone recently posted a recommendation for these guys:
http://www.nl-amer.com/ |
Spare_o
Supporter
Username: Spare_o
Post Number: 371
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 4:41 pm: |
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We use NaturaLawn
http://www.naturalawn.com |
tourne
Citizen
Username: Tourne
Post Number: 454
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 11:52 pm: |
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Kudos to you folks looking to get away from the poisonous lawn care craze! |
Dogbert
Citizen
Username: Dogbert
Post Number: 25
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 7:41 am: |
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We've been using Nature's Pro (http://www.naturespro.com/Dealers/lawnwatch.html) for quite a while and several other people in our neighborhood use them as well.
Personally I'm indifferent to all this "organic" stuff and skeptical about the cancer risk cited above, but I can say that our lawn looked like crap before and it's been really nice since we started using Nature's Pro. |
argon_smythe
Citizen
Username: Argon_smythe
Post Number: 762
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 10:44 am: |
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One alternative is to do / apply nothing and see how that goes.
I suggested this once before and got a virtual earful about how irresponsible I was, and the guy supposed he should not paint his house or repair broken windows and such stuff either. But I can tell you, I don't do any of this. I don't water the grass, I don't put chemicals on it, I don't hire anyone else to do these things, and the stuff is not dead yet.
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Spare_o
Supporter
Username: Spare_o
Post Number: 372
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 12:24 pm: |
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Argon--I tried that the first year after we moved into our current house. By the time the following summer came along, we had a pretty decent abandoned lot look going. We mowed but still somehow it looked neglected, the weeds were winning and crowding out what little grass we had left. That's when I called in NaturaLawn.
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tourne
Citizen
Username: Tourne
Post Number: 455
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 2, 2006 - 11:45 pm: |
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I take issue with Nature's Pro being anything other than a chemlawn type of company. The only thing related to nature with Nature's Pro is their name! Now, if it looks like Chemlawn, acts like Chemlawn, and uses the same chemicals as chemlawn, then why don't they call themselves chemlawn! Sounds like really false advertising to me. Look elsewhere for alternative lawncare. |
sac
Supporter
Username: Sac
Post Number: 3191
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 3, 2006 - 6:25 am: |
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It looks like dave23 and spare_o are actually using the same company, which I plan to check out. Are there any others in this category? |
singlemalt
Supporter
Username: Singlemalt
Post Number: 1136
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 4, 2006 - 9:57 pm: |
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Scotts has a great service that competes with Chemlawn. We've been very pleased and our lawn looks great.
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