Try Rock Dust, The blue metal one finds at nurserys or what can be mixed with concrete to make it stronger.Its cheap, here maybe $30 a trailer load. Crushed blue metal rock dust has all the natural nutrients/trace elements you will ever need for plant life. Spread it over the lawn,once or twice a year, water it in.The neighbours will wonder why your lawn looks lush green and healthy. The finer dust the better, mix it with soil and watch the incredible growth difference in plants. You will never have to buy fertilizers or the the other growth bags of cr.... This is natural . Look at the great trees of canada in the mountains, growing out of cracks in the rock, feeding off,yes the natural elements in the mineralized rock. Do you know of a blue metal crushing quarry near you, take a look around the perimeter.Every thing is green imediate to the quarry. If you want to know more, you can read about this in a book called BREAD FROM STONE. A very old book early 1900s. I think.

I just use the molasses to restore minerals and cayenne to chase away the bugs. Plants living in unnatural soils will always suffer, so most people manipulate the soil with fertilizers so they can force plants to live where they normally would not.

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