NY bans Fertilizer

[BostonBull]

Dish detergents, ferts, all Phosphorus.........


http://www.lawnandlandscape.com/new-york-new-jersey-fertilizer-bans.aspx?List_id=5

 

[nuthin_special]

Good on ya New York. How long until Nitrogen fertilizers are banned next for lawns?

Maybe last year's potash prices made this an easier law to pass.

 

[The_Archdruid]

They're already swimming in sh*t from Wall Street.

 

[sean_freeman]

I have never been to the USA but it certainly seems that watershed management is taken very very seriously, we would benefit from some of that over here.

 

[treebing]

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I have never been to the USA but it certainly seems that watershed management is taken very very seriously, we would benefit from some of that over here.

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not really all that seriously, the amount of crap emptied out on to lawns across the country is astounding, this is the a big step for New York and the first time that I had even heard it talked about. Tru-green chem lawn has a lot of power in this country.

 

[bushman]

I hope virginia will do the same ,chesapeke bay is in pretty bad shape.

 

[Toparboring]

OK 1. Cayuga Lake has been going down the crapper for about as long as I have been alive. I live 2 mins away from it. The phosphorus is from the all the farms and vineyards surrounding the lake. The 6 months of salt slinging we do to travel in the winter months which every storm drains into the lake from the surrounding area. The Zebra muscles that have eaten 1/2 the zoo plankton that in turn have killed off the fish in much of the south end of the lake. Funny I travel hours away from a lake to go fishing with the kids actually sad. When I was a kid my grandpa and I would head down and go salmon and trout fishing now well just sad.