County workers also plan to conduct more soil tests to help determine how much fertilizer to use, something that was done only sporadically before.
"We're looking at all available options to reduce our impact on the Chesapeake Bay," said Mark Garrity, the county's parks administrator.
The move isn't being made without prompting, however. Starting on April 1, 2011, a new state law limiting phosphorus content in fertilizer...
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fertilizer - 2009-10-20 07:47:52
Apart from putting greens and high use playing fields, there is very little need to apply fertilizer to turf on a regular basis, especially residential lawns.
All those harry-homeowners out there who religiously dump bags of fertilizer on their lawns year in and year out are mindless sheep sticking their hindquarters up in the air to get raped by the chemical industry marketing machine.
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