The Top 12 Reasons for Not Spreading Quick-Release Fertilizer on Lawns

1. Improved wildlife habitat (more clover)
2. Mycorrhizal fungi networks capture more carbon
3. 94 species of bees found in natural lawns cut every two weeks, no watering (hits bees)
4. Natural lawns have greater biodiversity
5. Stop nutrient runoff pollution (don’t feed harmful algal blooms)
6. Save Money (save time, effort, and fossil fuels, too)
7. Save water, need not water natural lawn
8. Pollutes groundwater
9. Fertilizer creates bare patches, “sunspills”
10. Natural lawns found to have 36 species of plants
11. Non-fertilized lawn may build an inch of soil in a year (4 inches of soil can hold 7 inches of rainwater)
12. Non-fertilized lawns have more clover and more content rabbits

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1. Quick release fertilizer kills beneficial nematodes
2. The more mycorrhizal fungi – the bigger the wood wide web
3. Healthy soils provide lawns more nutrients than does fertilizer
4. Leave grass clippings on lawn (equals 1lb fertilizer/1,000 sq feet of lawn)

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