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Old 06-01-2018, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by thetruth View Post
As I read your post, I assume it is not a company but a product. Other than for advertising, there are almost no products for use on a lawn that can't be purchased under several brand names.

Top dressing a lawn makes little sense. We have sandy clay. Your grass is or should be rooted down about 8 inches. To change the soils significantly you would need to add about two inches of organic matter and get it into the top 8 inches. Fuzzy math-about 50 lbs of manure per 100 sq ft.
The company is Life Soils. Comand is a combination of compost and sand and was formulated for our soil in cooperation with Univ of FLA. There have been a large number of lawns that were done as a test and they have responded very well and look beautiful. Comand was used in the flower beds on Buena Vista at the Odell Circle/Bailey Trail round-about. Those beds look excellent compared to beds that none was used.

The PH of manure is high and it cakes so that water runs off of it.
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