Milorganite Soil Test Results 

Hey Pete just letting you know I'm one of the only people in Connecticut that uses pine straw in all my beds and we actually sell it up here and also wanted to say that I'm a lawn care technician for many years and have learned a lot from your videos and you are a very inspirational person and I will continue watching as much as you can dish out!

I just can not resist the opportunity to comment. As I understood it some 63 years ago, Milorganite is the waste generated by the City of Milwaukee. It is sterilized of course and the nutrients listed are normalized to a minimum. I dug and planted about 100' of privet hedge in heavy clay soil which is actually great due to the mineral content. We amended the soil with peat moss and Milorganite. Measure? No. Just do it. Move forward 59 years and I bought my retirement home. The neighborhood ranges in age from one to ninety +. Lots of laughter and kids yelling. We are built on the side of an old rock quarry. Any top soil intended for the yard fell off the truck on the way here. But we have a lot of gravel and rock. So when I planted my Rhododendrons, I took my little Mantis tiller and went to work working the soil and removing rock. Then peat moss, Sweet Peat, bagged top soil and Milorganite and sulfur (soil tested). The Rhododendron are beautiful. The rose beds and perennial beds are also gorgeous. I also use Holly-tone (Espoma corp.) because my soil is so alkaline and Osmocote (slow release from Scotts). Sure beats burning leaves, compost, pigeon poop and lime I used as a kid!

Looking at the color differences. I think the density of the grass is hiding the clay soil. Would like to see one blade of grass next to the other. You do us all a great service in our yards and with Gods word. People need to remember to respect you and your family’s privacy!!! God bless you & yours!

LMAO! Don't drive by my house!!! Dude you are the man!!! Made my day with that!!!!!

My neighbor told me if he had a blue ribbon to give someone for a lawn, he would give it to me. Thank Pete and Jake!

Thank you for the Bible reminders❤️🙏

You’re only addicted to your lawn if you have a motorized spreader lol

“...don’t you ride up on my house...” 😂😂😂 Enjoy your stuff! Appreciate you taking the time to educate ppl w/vids and explanations. Keep doing good things.

I'm in southeast Indiana. 36 miles north of Louisville Kentucky right there on 65. First 2 weeks of April it rained for 2 weeks non-stop. Flooded everything. Cornfields looked like muddy oceans. Hasn't rained any significant amount since. I reckon we've got MAYBE 1.5" in almost two months. I had to break down and buy an above ground sprinkler system because I was getting the same thing in my yard. Stressed out to the max. We've been in the mid to high 80's since about the second week of spring. It's a mess.

I'm just getting in too lawn care but I can deff tell the diff,between the Milo and academy, it's looks thick n greener towards the crown...great video man

Hey Pete. Getting off subject = giving us much much more information. Thanks Pete.

Pete, first, thanks for the invite to visit, and then taking it back! Next, it’s been two years, are you a milo convert or staying with the Academy brand? I appreciate your videos!!

LOL you are a man after my own heart fella. Unless you have been invited to my spot please stay away..Love it

You stated in the comments that academy feeds for 4-6 months. I would be very interested to see that proven through testing. It has been my experience that most ferts feed for 1/2 the time the manufacturer says. Cheers brother.

I believe another reason Phosphorus is being used less is because it gets in to runoff and creates algae blooms where they are not wanted!!!! What do you think GCI???

Pete, technical question here. I graduated 40 years ago with an agronomy degree and have been plugged into crops and soils ever since. I am still a student and really like your lawn care tips. You are a true delight to listen to. One thing I have a question on in this video regards the soil pH. You were quoting 4.4 and 4.8 pH soil test levels. YIKES! I was brought up with soil pH readings more in the 6-6.5 test area. Now I sure can’t argue with your results but wouldn’t you get more fertilizer efficiency if you brought those levels up? Lime is relatively a cheap expense granted it would a massive amount on what looks like some large lawns. I just believe in lime and how well it benefits the soil organic complex. I imagine the high sulfur levels are helping to contribute to the acidity.

I put morganite down last year in the spring, its showing me its results this year in the spring, my grass greend up faster then anyone elses in face it was mostly green all winter even with snow on it and frozen. I tried not to walk in the grass but with 2 dogs I kinda had to. I added lime 3 years ago the lower the ph becuse I seen a lot of weeds becuse for 18 years I didnt do anything to my lawn. Here's the deal a premium fertilizer cost 40 to 60 bucks a 50lb bag, it lasts a few months then it's gone. Morganite cost me 8 bucks a 50lb bag no name brand and it dosnt break down, also you cant put down too much. Do that with a professional fertilizer and you will burn and kill the grass. For the money and easy use morganite is a much better deal, however I'd still add a professional fertilizer with it anyway just not as often. Now this is KCMO its march 26 and I have to mow my grass to even it out somewhat too many tall and low spots from grass seed I put down last spring that finely came up. I dont water my lawn cost too much. I use Grasspad products it's a local supplier. You can search Grasspad on google to get an idea of what we use here. I've never heard of the products your using it must be for your area. Your soil and my soil are no where close to the same this is true of every part of the nation. I would like to have your digital testers i have never sent my soil out for a test. And I dont think national brands products work everywhere. The Grasspad is a local company it's a chain store started here the history of it online if you want to know more but it was a sod farmer.

Interesting discussion. I wouldn’t expect much of a soil chemistry change from a treatment of fertilizer. I have used both synthetic and organic fertilizers on my lawn and both work. I like how the organic fertilizers seem to come on more slowly and last longer. What’s a soil pH of 4.8 you should be growing blueberries not turf.

Don't you ride by my yard. You stay where you are. LOL to funny.

Nice looking lawn, I'll take your word for as I won't be coming by...

New to your channel, I am Lawn Addict Lol and just started using Milo instead of synthetic fert myself! So far I Love it!

I.m with you on proofing that it works and I 'll help you send me bags of it and I.ll test it here in ILLINOIS.

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A lot of milo guys also start or start AND finish the year with a synthetic starter fert. That matters for comparison purposes

It says on Soil Savvy website that pH is generally 0.5 lower on report than actual reading. They state it is because they use a slightly acidic reactant in the solution.

I love the videos my man. I'm definitely getting some great info to start my lawn for the summer. I have some videos to catch up on. I just subbed about a week ago. I'm in Jersey

Love your videos bro!

I don’t put alot of stock in soil tests because if you were to take the soil and submit on two separate days, you’d get two different results! Save your money and work to get great looking turf. I’ve been using Milo on my lawns for three years now and I did a Soil Savvy test which just came back advising me to do nothing. Thank you Milo!

Send the drone up! I want to see the color comparison.

I love this channel. I've been following and my lawn looks killer this year. Thanks!

The high sulfur may be causing the low PH. I had high PH dirt and adding sulfur brought it down. Your lawn is beautiful. Thanks for sharing so many tips!

You stay where your at. I’ll stay where I’m at. Hilarious!

Make this mix is 1 cup baby shampoo 2 cups cola 1 cup ammonia 4 spoons of unsweetened tea the powder one and warm water after that sake it up makes the grass more green

Dads Against Daughters Dating. I love it!

This is great information. Thank you for this. Awesome video.

That driving over the mailbox cracked me up! That probably would of been me. LOL. I'll stick to watching the videos. keep them coming.

Awesome video man. Love the information you share with everyone. Really like that hat would love to have one.

@4:00 its incredible how many times Im hearing that from different areas. Same here in CT. March & April were winter like, May turning out to be summer like. We had less than 3 weeks of Spring like weather.

I use Milo because it's cheap and readily available. I just bought 10 bags at Farm&Fleet on sale for $6.99 a bag. Ten bags last me half the summer.

Pete...do you ask your customers how THEY would prefer their lawns look or do you tell them how YOU want it to look because you have such a keen eye for beauty?

Thanks Pete. For mixing the dirt for the test... like I said it dos make a little differents. Keep it coming brother. I always in joy scripture that you put out off and on I need to hear that off and on.

You stay where ur at and I’ll stay where I’m at ahahahahaha!!! I’m rolling

Came for the milorganite... stayed for the Jeep.

My grass looks awesome because of your videos just remember stay in your own damn yard and I'll stay in mine lol Thanks

Glad to see all these videos you are pumping out sir! Can't wait to see the proof on how good the academy fertilizer really is.

-14:50 Love that part!

That is pretty creepy someone got target fixated on your lawn slammed into your neighbors mailbox. Also stalkers aren’t cool. I could see if they admired your lawn online but not coming to your neighborhood riding by over and over again. I just like watched your videos for your knowledge and cool laid back personality. Plus we both live in NC. The heat has been brutal here.

Love your knowledge and your ability to teach 🇺🇸

Looks like the milo micros are better than academy. Additionally, most people double up the milo or at least go a lot more frequent with it. Monthly is how I lay it. I get the feeling if you lay Milo like us Milo nuts out there you will greatly surpass the #s.

What type of grass is that. I see the St Augustine. But what the other type? I’ve been trying to figure out what type of grass I have mixed in with my St Augustine and it looks just like that thinner blade grass! Help! Thanks!

🤥 As LCN says “smells like success “ . Great video again Pete. 😁👍👍I live too far away to drive by your house Pete , so it wasn’t me.🤣😂

Sweet Jeep dude

Supre informative and I just plain dig your attitude! Got a new sub from me brother!

LOVE the shirt!!!😂😂😂

Love the education Pete. Do your lawn cutting Crew cut fescue turf at 4.5 ? I tried doing that to my 17 clients and they didn't like it. What inch do your crew cut clients lawn ?

yes yes. No riding by your house, because mailboxes might get run over. Hey! If you've got the turf that causes the turn, it might just happen

Can I use Milorganite during the summer with a weed filled lawn with low ph? Since I bought it, I kind of want to go ahead and use it.

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LOVE THAT SHIRT / VIDEO

Pete-you know in North Carolina we always get rain on Memorial Day weekend.

Just found your channel and subbed. Great information and looking forward to binging your videos. Where are you from in NC? I promise I won’t drive by your house! I was born and raised in the triangle area.

I hate to be that guy, but I'm in the north I'm not sure it applies to me anyway but your goal is to sell turf academy subscriptions. I've done everything from pay local fertilizer companies to Scott's 4 step to what i do now which is cheapest menards weed and feed I can pick up and milo at the specified rate 3x a year. I cut my kbg 3.5" and give it frequent watering each day for 1.0-1.25" a week. It seems to work the best for me, MSU agrees on the frequent watering lately as I've found myself. I dunno everybody is selling something, really takes first hand experience. I dont know what to think either milo is expensive feces or effective but it seems to work for me, mostly because the other parts of the turf care equation are in place.

Pls stay on point..it’s tough following. What about the soil test.

5:03 lol 😂..... I know what happened the guy thought an alien landed on ur lawn.. Freaked out and ran into the ✉ 🗃

What is that grass/needle stuff in your beds and is it available in the northwest?

Nice shirt! I got the same one for Father's Day a few years ago.

Love the shirt !

Nice shirt

shouldn't the RGS and Humic acid help with the stressed lawn? or is that area untreated?

Yo Pete did you get the soil report back? Five weeks ago I had a soil analysis done and the pH was a little low. I added lime per the reports suggestion and 10-10-10 at the reports recommended amount. Even though I followed the reports recommendations my Zoysia still didn’t look like it normally looks. I found out about Milo last week and put down 15lbs/1000 sqft. It’s looking thicker and greener after just 5 days...of course, the daily thunder showers didn’t hurt! Great videos and pretty informative too! Keep up the good work!!!

Ma eye BALLS...lol

My ph is 7.4 and my lawn looks terrible. It kind of look anemic, it won’t take on a deep green. I didn’t add anything that would of raised it. I’d did spray heavy last year for chinch bugs. I put down milo and prodamine as preemergence. My well water is 6.82. What the heck is going on. I ordered some sulfur, hopefully that helps.

Is 4.8 PH low for your standards? Soil sample 2021 wad 5.2 I added lime to get it up to 6.3. Grass has been doing very well. Been over seeding with Lesco All Teams Pro . Thanks for the videos

Been waiting on the results. Is sulfur a good or a bad thing ? Thanks for the great videos and info. Watching you has put me back to caring about my yard. And here in s.c. we are getting tons of rain.

On paper it looks like the milo and academy fert is pretty much the same. But the eye test suggests otherwise, I need to get my hands on the academy fert! It's been really hot and dry here in NE Oklahoma as well. We will hit 100 degrees middle of next week. Very unusual for this area. We usually are sitting on the front porch drinking cold beer and watching tornadoes this time of year. Spring took this year off I guess. Hopefully that means fall will come early! Have a good one bro and take care!

The dark green side, you said it was because of the Milorganite. But was it because of the Milo or because of the 4.5 inch cut? It sounded to me like the Academy was better. I couldn't tell. I'd appreciate it if you would shorten up you videos. Watch Donny Boys videos if you want to see what I like. To the point. Thanks for your work.

Oh I'm coming by your house big boy, I've just got to see the difference for myself, and maybe I'll do a couple doughnuts in your yard and then a burn out just to see if you can catch me. Lol. Ok, I'm just joking, I couldn't resist a little fun after your" you stay in your yard " comment. That was too funny.

Pete awesome videos. I've learned so much. Do we have to join the academy to order your fertilizer.

Your soil is high in copper.. Manganese and Zinc.. What is the PH so low?

Reccomended fert for northern grass? Need some gains this year..gettin antsy after winter

Love the shirt

Pete, I had a crazy thought this morning, are you planning to stripe your yard like the US flag for the 4th of July? :D

Hey Pete! So what’s your go to for fungus down there? I am guessing with the heat and humidity you have to get some disease... Does GCI offer a specific fungicide? Every year I get red thread followed by dollar spot and then always brown patch. I tend to think I do all the text book practices but it still comes. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Was there ever a follow up to this? Can't find it

Wild cat from tailspin

Can you give us a cost comparison to between these 2 fertilizer plans?

Well that is one great thing about America, freedom, do whatever they want to on public roads, drive wherever you want , look at whatever you want to ,why God gave us two eyes to look N see whatever we want on God's green earth you know , 😉

How did this compare to the home kits and electric probes you used in the other videos?

What is the price per 1,000 difference between the Milo and Academy? Thanks 👍🏻

Hey Pete, we’re coming up on a month since you filmed this. How’s the color and short stripes looking?

I'm going to take a ride by your house late tonight. Do you have a security or alarm system? I need to know what I need to bring with me.

Love your lawn tests, keep up the good work. 3:21- I see a lot of brown blade tips. Dull blade? Are you mowing that 3" test plot with a different mower and blade? Also, you didn't stress that 3" lawn by going from 4" down to 3" in one cut, by chance? Guessing not. Last, curious to see if the soil test results are much different comparing your fert mix to milo. If they are, you should compare the ingredients to try to attribute what's driving the variation.

I just now came across this guy's videos does he have one on what spreader he is using?

I was thinking about ordering the Bio-Stimulant package. In short, which of those (Bio-Stimulant products) did you spray on your grass for the test? I currently use milo, can I still apply the products this close to summer?

What kind of spreader is that and how do you like it ? I’d love to get a self propelled unit. Does it do good on hills ?

Where do you get the soil test done ? Or how?

what soil test lab do you use?

How do we get the academy fertilizer?

Power rake and air gator

Hey Pete, is the academy the fertilizer on your website?