Question
Hello. I came across some information that you wrote and wanted to ask you about sugar on the lawn. How much do you need to use? Is my first question and then...do I just start tossing sugar out there? I also have an area with daisy's, and various other plants, can I sprinkle it there as well?

Thank you, this is very interesting.
Octavia

Answer
hi Octavia;
That is part of the beuty of using sugar to nourish your lawn. Sugar won't hurt anything.
If you get a little too much fertilizer or other chemicals, it can seriously burn and/or kill your grass and plants.
A blob of sugar will only disolve and go into the ground and harm nothing.
I used to feed the chickens in my grandmother's chicken yard when I was a kid.
You just got a container of chicken feed and as you stood there, or walked along, you got a handful and scattered it in a back and forth sweeping motion, and repeated that untill you finished. That is the way I apply my sugar. I just tuck a bag under one arm and walk along broadcasting the sugar. I watch the pattern it is making so I can get a fairly even coverage. I put sugar everywhere, because I want the rich soil everywhere. I so use some fertilizer on my flowers, because they need more of a boost than grass and green shrubs, to produce flowers, so I use Miricle-Gro, and I put some sugar in the watering can I disolve the Miracle-Gro in. I am sure as mild as miricle-Gro is, it would kill my microbes.
I had poison ivy coming up in the alley behind my house, so I threw sugar there also in the fall and again in the spring. Haven't seen any poison ivy this year , so I will do that again this fall and next spring too.
I use sugar at the rate of 1 pound per 250 to 300 sq,ft.
Please feel free to write anytime you feel I can help.
Chrlotte

PS:
Another benefit.
If you put down fertilizer, and something happens and you can't water immediately after, the chemical fertilizer will burn and kill your pawn. It takes a long while to recover from that, so you end up with a barren lawn the rest of that year.
If you get the sugar down, and can't water that day, or even the next, the only bad thing that can happen is maybe a good wind comes up and blows some of your sugar away so it doesn't get into your lawn, but there will be no amage to the lawn.
C