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To fertilize or not to fertilize.... That's the question
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<blockquote data-quote="Banjo" data-source="post: 993803" data-attributes="member: 17304"><p>We must learn how to grow grass. Nobody here probably fertilizes their lawn, but yet it needs mowing frequently. if you want it to grow back slow, you mow it real short. Thats because it is so short it can't photosynthesize sunlight, so it has to regrow from its root reserves..same way in pastures....if you graze it too short it can't photosynthesize sunlight, so then it is constantly pulling energy from the roots, therefore making a weaker root system and a sluggish plant that will die under stress.</p><p>In 2007, we made the decision to stop using commercial fertilize. That year was a bad drought year here along with 2008. This will be the 7th year with no fertilize. My brood cow numbers are as high as ever. It can be done, you just gotta overcome the fear of not using fertilize......we've been conditioned to use fertilize for so long that we think nothing can grow without it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Banjo, post: 993803, member: 17304"] We must learn how to grow grass. Nobody here probably fertilizes their lawn, but yet it needs mowing frequently. if you want it to grow back slow, you mow it real short. Thats because it is so short it can't photosynthesize sunlight, so it has to regrow from its root reserves..same way in pastures....if you graze it too short it can't photosynthesize sunlight, so then it is constantly pulling energy from the roots, therefore making a weaker root system and a sluggish plant that will die under stress. In 2007, we made the decision to stop using commercial fertilize. That year was a bad drought year here along with 2008. This will be the 7th year with no fertilize. My brood cow numbers are as high as ever. It can be done, you just gotta overcome the fear of not using fertilize......we've been conditioned to use fertilize for so long that we think nothing can grow without it. [/QUOTE]
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