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Sugar Water Your Lawn
by Dean Novosat

Believe it or not, one of the best recipes I have found for keeping your lawn healthy may just be one of the strangest. One time, I mixed up a soup in a five gallon bucket of the following: about 3 gallons of water, 1/2 cup of cheap dishwashing liquid, 1 bottle of liquid ammonia, and 2 bottles of corn syrup. I mixed it really well (it is easier if you dissolve the corn syrup in some warm water first and then pour it into the bucket) and then applied it with a standard garden hose water sprayer. The soap in the mixture acts an a wetting agent which keeps the concoction on the leaves of the grass instead of just washing into the ground. The ammonia is a nutrient that plants need and the sugar, well, I don't really know what the sugar does! If you have any ideas, you can add items to our weblog (blog) at http://gardens-gardening.com/gardens_blog/ to share your ideas with the rest of the world!