And probably golfers, too.

I just got the latest cost on my recent trailerload order for 22 tons of 14-25-10 lawn fertilizer. Nothing fancy, just a standard grade fertilizer used mainly as a starter fertilizer for new seedings with 25% sulfur coated urea. My cost went from $16.00 a bag to $22.00 a bag since I last ordered in early April. (although in their defense they did warn us it was coming) Yet another unintended consequence of Ethanol.

Prepare yourself for the sticker shock the next time you walk into the garden center for your next "step" or when the next lawn service bill arrives. I'd imagine greens fees are going to be on their way up to cover the additional expense.

OTOH the gap between organics and synthetics is closing fast (unless the organic guys raise prices just for the sake of raising them)making them a lot more financially palatable alternative which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Cheap starter fertilizer is within a few bucks of very good (golf) fairway grade organic/natural.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

composting is the way to go

the price of oil drives the economy. What's a lawn service, I thought thats why my parents had kids.

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

I noticed Scotts was a lot more the last time I bought some.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Hell that's the only reason I had so many...

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Hmmm.... I need to buy some weed and feed to prepare the backyard for the summer parties. Crap.

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-Justin

91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

In our neighborhood, only 3 houses do their own lawns and ours is one of them.
Let's see, my ride on lawnmower is a used Sears Craftsman that runs like a top and cost $75.
It's not a fancy green and yellow brand with a cup holder, but it does have working headlights.

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85' 300D No inspection, No registration fees, Cheap insurance
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're going to see some serious %$&^."

Terrific...right when I am in the advent of the "backyard revitalization project" (fill dirt, seed, fertilizer, etc)...

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

Well, Chop Chop! Our price increase won't go into effect until the end of the month just to honor some early order committments. But seed & fert aren't going down anytime soon. Even if you can't put it all down yet you might want to get it and set it in your garage until the time comes.

Our more conventional analysis products and combination products increased by about 18% but anything with higher amounts of Phosphorous (like our starter) jumped significantly more. It might be a good thing since there's generally an over application of P which ends up in the run-off. We've just about eliminated it or drastically reduced the amount of P in all of the various blends we carry, lots of zero's, two's and five's for the second numbers.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Its happening eveywhere.

Last year a gallon of Micron Extra was about $190, now $225. Most zinc's have risen 70%-100% in price in the last 18 months.

The price on metal and oil is killing the marine industry.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Time to plant trees.

It will have to rain here first, before I will think about fertilizer.

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

Z, you guys are having fires again this season, too. I feel for the homeowners, the developers, everybody. It's like in California when folks built in the chaparral. It looked like a good idea at the time. Now we know that if we build in a pyrogenic plant community we are going to get fires. That includes the piney woods of the Gulf Coast, The great plains, much of the mountain west, and the Sierras. Oh boy.

B

X2

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Every month, April through October. Before we drain and clean the two 700 gallon horse water troughs. We make cow manure tea and water the lawns with it. Works great.

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1980 300D - Veggie Burner !

I hate that smell! We go camping next to a cow farm, I'd probably gag making that stuff.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200