Scatter 1/2 inch compost or natural
fertilizer over the grass and rake in.
Not exact matches
That result contrasts sharply with a controversial study published just
over a year ago in Science that suggested that a mixture of prairie
grasses farmed with little
fertilizer or other inputs would produce a higher net energy yield than ethanol produced from corn (Science, 8 December 2006, p. 1598).
Vogel and his colleagues conducted the first large - scale field study of switchgrass by monitoring its growth on the borders of 10 farms in Dakota; they noted the amount of seed,
fertilizer and fuel used, the amount of precipitation and the amount of
grass harvested
over the span of 5 years.
Most slow release
fertilizers will be lost in the soil — or worse into watersheds —
over winter when
grass isn't growing.