moabfool
07-23-2008, 02:03 PM
I saw this on KSL a few years ago. It worked great, but you have to follow the directions.
Here's the recipe
1 - 12oz can/bottle of soda pop (any brand, regular, not diet)
1 - 12oz can/bottle of beer (any brand, regular, not light beer)
1/2 cup dish soap (regular, not anti-bacterial)
1/2 cup amonia
1/2 cup mint mouthwash (any brand)
Directions:
Mow your lawn late in the evening. Apply lawn tonic immediately after.
Mix ingredients together in a hose-end sprayer and apply to lawn, shrubs and flowers. I suggest that you add the dish soap after the beer and soda. This is the sprayer I use, set to 3oz.
http://tinyurl.com/Hose-end-sprayer
Apply every third week in the heat of summer. It's best if you start treatment before your lawn is already yellow, but it will bring back your green if it is dead. An average size lawn will take two or three batches to cover.
I usually water the yard the night after the treatment, but I've heard that it's not necessary. If you try watering that night vs. not watering let me know which you feel worked best.
Here's how it works. The soda is food for the lawn, as is the beer. The amonia fertilizes the lawn. The mouthwash messes with the reproductive cycle of the bugs that eat your grass. The dish soap is a wetting agent to make the rest of the stuff stick better and it's a pesticide. Another bonus is that the enzymes in the beer will break down dead grass. Now you don't have to bag your grass or worry about thatch.
Here's the recipe
1 - 12oz can/bottle of soda pop (any brand, regular, not diet)
1 - 12oz can/bottle of beer (any brand, regular, not light beer)
1/2 cup dish soap (regular, not anti-bacterial)
1/2 cup amonia
1/2 cup mint mouthwash (any brand)
Directions:
Mow your lawn late in the evening. Apply lawn tonic immediately after.
Mix ingredients together in a hose-end sprayer and apply to lawn, shrubs and flowers. I suggest that you add the dish soap after the beer and soda. This is the sprayer I use, set to 3oz.
http://tinyurl.com/Hose-end-sprayer
Apply every third week in the heat of summer. It's best if you start treatment before your lawn is already yellow, but it will bring back your green if it is dead. An average size lawn will take two or three batches to cover.
I usually water the yard the night after the treatment, but I've heard that it's not necessary. If you try watering that night vs. not watering let me know which you feel worked best.
Here's how it works. The soda is food for the lawn, as is the beer. The amonia fertilizes the lawn. The mouthwash messes with the reproductive cycle of the bugs that eat your grass. The dish soap is a wetting agent to make the rest of the stuff stick better and it's a pesticide. Another bonus is that the enzymes in the beer will break down dead grass. Now you don't have to bag your grass or worry about thatch.