Florida County Restricts Lawn Fertilizer Use

[Diggin It]

Orange County's tougher fertilizer rules aim to protect lakes, wildlife from lawn chemicals​

Orlando Sentinel|46 minutes ago
Faced with evidence of polluted lakes and dead manatees, Orange County commissioners toughened restrictions on lawn fertilizers Tuesday, banning summertime use of products with nitrogen and phosphorus blamed for poisoning county waterways. The unanimous ...


I personally don't use any of them.

 

[notaz3]

Most people who self fertilize their yard have a tendency to over do it. They just go off what the big box store tells them they should do, instead of getting a soil testing.

 

[sea2summit]

With fertilizer prices where they are I bet there won’t be many violations.

 

[etpm]

Though lawn fertilizing in that part of Florida, as well as in other states, is known to cause problems in waterways, ponds, and lakes, I am sure that fertilizers from other sources are also large contributors to the pollution. I hope these other sources are also addressed.
Eric

 

[Hay Dude]

With fertilizer prices where they are I bet there won’t be many violations.

Damn straight.
Farm fertilizer up 300%.

 

[Diggin It]

^^ I don't think will help a lot:

Blaze at North Carolina fertilizer plant packed with 600 tons of ammonium nitrate still burning​

ABC|8 days ago
A fire at a North Carolina fertilizer plant packed with nearly 600 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate continued to burn on Wednesday, forcing roughly 6,500 residents in the immediate area to remain out of their homes for at least another night, ...

Winston-Salem Fire Chief: Investigators believe they know where fertilizer plant fire started, but determining cause will take time​

Winston-Salem Journal|1 day ago
Mayo, speaking during the February Public Safety news conference at City Hall, told reporters that investigators believe they now know where the fire started inside the plant, but that determining ...

 

[airbiscuit]

They are lovable.

 

[LHF2019]

If homeowners would not fertilize their yards I bet they would realize that a lot of the waterways pollution is not all farmer related. Though you would never hear that. Everything is the fault of the person that respects the land the most.

 

[kenmbz]

Here people complain about lakes getting filled with Algae, while they have lawn companies come and dump piles of fertilizer.
I use the bare minimum in my garden and specific plants. And a bit of lime where needed.

I got to see people in my old neighborhood drown their lawns with fertilizer and poisons.
Saw all the lightning bugs disappear and the local brook turn to slime.
Then they all complained the town should clean up the brook.
Sad.

 

[Bill Guenthner]

If homeowners would not fertilize their yards I bet they would realize that a lot of the waterways pollution is not all farmer related. Though you would never hear that. Everything is the fault of the person that respects the land the most.

If you fertilized at the rates people dump it on their lawns you’d probably kill your crops.

 

[LHF2019]

If you fertilized at the rates people dump it on their lawns you’d probably kill your crops.

Wouldn't kill them but I would have one heck of a hay crop. The side affect though is the crop could take up more nutrients than it needs throwing the livestock that ate them off balance. Not a good thing.

 

[Fixastuff]

As a country person with to much grass to cut I'll never understand wanting it to grow faster and thicker and spending money on it.

 

[kenmbz]

I am both city and country, and I can't understand it either.
Weird overgreen grass and little poison warning flags don't impress me.

 

[Diggin It]

What I see coming is banning retail sales. Only professional lawn service companies will be able to apply treatments.

That may be OK for those that can afford it. But me? I'm with the others. Green is fine, but just enough to keep the soil from washing away. I'm not real fond of mowing. I don't hate it as much as some, but I'd rather not do it more than twice a month.

 

[Sonny580]

I agree with you guys on the "overkill" amounts that people dump on their yards,--- and for what useful purpose? Yard mowing is such a waste!--- Ya I know its a billion dollar business to the commercial lawn guys, but at what cost to the land?

 

[Jstpssng]

90% of the money spent on lawns is for golf courses, or at least it was when I took turf management back in 1985.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

Worms,not fertilizer.

 

[Jstpssng]

Worms,not fertilizer.

Don't you know that worms are an invasive species?

 

[Moxie 15]

I lived in Florida for 24 years and when it comes to their lawns people will do the craziest things imaginable.

It is all trying to one up the next guy, people think that the native Bahia grasses are ugly and die back too much so they sod with Saint Augustine and other non native heavy bladed grasses. These grasses do not grow well naturally so they must be watered and fertilized regularly or they wont grow. Well my lawn has to better than your lawn so I water and feed it more than you,HAH!

Well the next thing you know my expensive St Augustine grass is being killed by the weed called Dollar Weed, so I water more and get a lawn company to come look at it and they sell me a weekly service to spray herbicide on it and oh yea I need to kill those icky bugs so on goes the insecticide.
The water used on lawns is measured in million gallons per minute, the chemicles are measured in million tons per week. Then of course in the rainy season it all runs off into the rivers and streams in the dry season it is washed into the water by lawn sprinklers all so the grass will grow so it can be mowed so the HOA and CDD wont fine me for too high grass or too brown of a yard and property values wont go down, not to mention the 'yard nazis'.
I will stop now before it turns into a true rant and I start start drooling and spitting.

 

[5030]

Only time the grass here gets fertilized is when I take a leak on it.