Swore by expensive lawn fertilizer for years, then my neighbor's $12 bag of milorganite blew my grass out of the water

I spent like $80 a season on that blue synthetic stuff from Home Depot. Green within a week but my soil got hard as concrete after two years. Finally last spring my neighbor Bob tosses me a bag of milorganite from Ace Hardware and says try this. I was skeptical because it smells like a sewage plant and costs next to nothing. After a month my grass was way darker green and thicker than it ever was with the expensive stuff. The kicker was I did half my yard with each and the milorganite side was visibly better by June. Anyone else had a cheap product outperform the name brand?

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emma_mitchell7d ago

My dad used plain old steer manure and his lawn won the block award three years running.

miles_perez7d ago

@emma_mitchell that steer manure is no joke. My dad used to do the same thing and his lawn was always the greenest on the block. The thing about manure is it feeds the soil instead of just the grass blades. That's why those cheap organic options like milorganite work so well long term. They break down slow and build up the dirt underneath instead of just giving it a quick chemical hit. Your dad probably never had to deal with that crusty hardpan soil us synthetic users get after a couple years.