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The Hudson Valley Community College Sustainability Committee is starting a new feature: Sustainability Tip of the Week:\u00a0 Faculty, staff and students, please send your sustainable ideas to share for our weekly tip to: j.coons@hvcc.edu. <\/em>When used, you’ll receive a token of our appreciation.<\/p>\n Sustainability Tip of the Week: Spring will be here soon and in preparation think about organic lawns. If you fertilize an existing lawn in mid-summer, you’re feeding the weeds!<\/p>\n Note: As required by NYS law, do not apply any fertilizer containing nitrogen, potassium, or phosphorous between December 1 and April 1 or within 20 feet of any surface water unless there is a vegetative buffer of at least 10 feet, and do not broadcast fertilizer onto sidewalks and roads where it can run-off into storm drains or nearby waterways.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 04 Mar 2019 12:59:09 +0000 by\u00a0j.coons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Hudson Valley Community College Sustainability Committee is starting a new feature: Sustainability Tip of the Week:\u00a0 Faculty, staff…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/span>A Simple Wish for a Better Tomorrow<\/span><\/p>\n
\nOver-fertilization or applying fertilizer at the wrong time can harm your lawn. First determine IF there is a nutrient deficiency with a soil nutrient test. Broadcasting up to a half inch of finished compost provides nitrogen, other trace nutrients, and organic matter to the soil. More serious nitrogen deficiencies should be corrected with a slow-release, organic source of nitrogen such as blood meal, cottonseed meal, or fish meal. Apply nutrients when soil temperatures are above 65 degrees. Get 50% of your lawn’s needed nitrogen by leaving clippings on the lawn; apply the other 50% in the fall by shredding leaves using a mulching lawn mower and leave them on the lawn.<\/p>\n