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!
