Recipe for a Green Lawn

[moabfool]

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.

[Mooseman70]

I've heard about this before, but never wanted to try it out until I'd heard from somebody who had used the homemade fertilizer themselves.

My lawn is suffering from the yellows and bugs, so maybe I'll try it out and see how it works. Do you make a large batch first and then just fill up your sprayer each time you empty it? Or are you making the listed batch each time?

Worth a try, I guess. Heck.... I quit paying ChemLawn last year since their treatments didn't make my lawn look any better than it was doing on it's own.

[live2ride]

I have used this for years and it works great! You can also find this receipe on KSL.com under the water conservation portion of the info.

[moabfool]

My lawn is suffering from the yellows and bugs, so maybe I'll try it out and see how it works. Do you make a large batch first and then just fill up your sprayer each time you empty it? Or are you making the listed batch each time?

I make the listed batch each time. It's pretty quick to mix up right in the hose end sprayer.

I can't tell you to do this because it's "interstate transport," but if you happen to come home from Wyoming or Idaho with some 5-point beer grab some of the cheap stuff for your lawn while you're there. The Utah 3.2 stuff works, but full-power is better. The reason that Utah 3.2 works and light beer light beer doesn't is because Utah beer is measured by weight, so it's really closer to 4-point.

I have used this for years and it works great! You can also find this receipe on KSL.com under the water conservation portion of the info.

I did a search on KSL but couldn't find the recipe. I know it used to be there because that's where I got it. If you can find it quick will you give us the link?

[moabfool]

I couldn't find the KSL story, but this is the guy that invented the tonic (or at least he put it in a book).

http://www.jerrybaker.com/

A quick google search turned this up.

http://water.ksl.com/index.php?nid=3&sid=92192
http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?s=1915966

[Scott Card]

Utah is notorious for iron poor soil. I get the highest concentrated iron fertlizer and that greens up the lawn very well. I can't remember the actual name but it is a fertilome brand. Seems like it has 5x's the regular iron concentration.

[moabfool]

Utah is notorious for iron poor soil. I get the highest concentrated iron fertlizer and that greens up the lawn very well. I can't remember the actual name but it is a fertilome brand. Seems like it has 5x's the regular iron concentration.

Every time I talk about the lawn tonic my coworkers tell me about "Iron Wright" or "Iron Right" or some product that sounds like that. What I found was this.

http://www.shop.com/Liquid_Chelated_Iron_br_8_oz_concentrate_br_-38381133-p!.shtml

It' looks like a bit of this added to your lawn tonic could really green up your grass.