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Originally Posted by Jeanzb1
Anyone who has a nice green weed-free lawn has been using Scott's and other fertilizers.
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You are wrong. In fact, you will find that other than starter fertilizers, most individuals use phos-free fertilizer as that's what is marketed. It also helps that it's cheaper so people are more likely to use it. Nitrate loading is a factor but the phosphorus is the fire starter so to speak.
Some of us go to great lengths to use soybean meal for our fertilizer and have a trophy lawn that is weed free
It's very easy to point to the "obvious" and ignore the far more prevalent culprits. Leach fields near the lake are a HUGE contributor to water quality issues with the lake water. Every time a driveway is put in, deck built, home built, you are increasing the impervious surfaces and removing natural buffering of nutrient movement that otherwise would be held in place.
If water quality was a true concern, all lake front development would be banned. Think I'm kidding? Many lakes throughout the US do not permit ANY development along the shores to preserve not only water quality but the natural resource. Speed limit, rafting, launch ramp complaint just don't seem to be a problem either