Question
I wish I had read your article earlier.I have tried corn gluten with unsatisfactory results. However, I resorted to using Scotts turf builder 2 to kill a chronic struggle with my weeds. I sense I applied too much on the lawn.

How long will it take for the yard to be deemed safe for the children to play? How long will the chemicals
persist in the soil? Is cutting the grass a health concern?
Is the product toxic because I left my windows open during my application?

This spring,I top dressed my lawn with leaf grow/organic compost and would like to continue addmending the soil to make it safe for the children to play again. Do my shoes  bring in the chemicals from the yard to the house? Should I dispose of my shoes?  

What is my next step? Is there a particular web site that might provide additional information.I will also try your sugar application to erradicate future weeds.

I now regret my poor judgment and need to find some plausible solutions. I hope you can shed some light and few helpful tips!

Regards,

Will

Answer
Hi William;
I think fron vacuuming and cleaning, all the chemicals must surely be out of your house.
Disposing of your shoues at thes time would be locking the door after the horse is stolen.
How long has it been since you applied that turf builder?
In 2 or 3 months, it should all be out of the soil, but if you have had half the rain we have had here, it is washed out. I live in north Texas, and we are still getting rain.
It has ben raining here since April, and we have had few sunny days.
If you applied the turf buildrer after you applied the compost, you cancelled out the benefits of that.
That compost had micro-organisms in it that will work round the clock enriching and improving the soil. the chemiclas in the tuirf builder would have killed those organisms.
If that is the case, all you can do is wash out the chemicals with a lot of watering, to wash it down through the soil, and start with the organics again.
Corn Gluten is not fopr the fungus. Horticultural Corn Meal is what you use for fungus.
Dry molasses, sugar, Corn Gluten, all do just about the same thing.
They don't do anything for the soil, all they do, primarily, is nourish the micro-organisms. THEY do all the good work, And sugar, I think, gives the best results of the three.
Alfalfa meal and lava sand are full of nutrients if you want to give a boost to the grass and plants. Alfalfa meal is especially good for flowering plants. It encourages more and larger blooms. I throw a handful of it around my fruit trees ( dwarfs) about once a month or so, and I put it on garden vegetables.
It doesn't take muct to give a plant a lot of nutrients. about a half cup around th basse of a rose bush and watered in will give it a real boost.
Charlotte