Anyone have any thoughts on this slow to breakdown fertilizer applied in fall?

Had a friend who swore by it, and only that, for lawn. Dont know about her timing/ schedule of use.

Thank you Sally!

It's made from sewage. The problem is, A LOT of compounds make it through even the most aggressive of sewage treatments. And industrial wastes are not the only concern. Think about all the toxic products one can buy from the store. Most of those get washed down drains and are processed by sewage plants. To add to this mess, think of sewers as mass collectors. New compounds can be made as waste streams hit each other and react. Be careful about "studies" facilitated by product proponents. What are they showing? Of the tens of thousands of compounds, what did they actually test for? Testing is expensive and time consuming. Testing is usually done on a limited number of compounds that may be performed fairly inexpensively.

I guess by now you might have figured out that I'm not a fan of any of the processed sewage materials. That's the side affect of minoring in chemistry and having previously worked in an industrial waste department.

Thank you UW. Good point about all the "other things" that go down the drain. 😱

I do wish there were studies done to show if Milorganite was really harmful to gardens. I know so many daylily growers that have used it for years, many of them it is the only fertilizer they do use, and they have experienced no problems with the product. I watched a video with Dan Hansen showing how he preps his beds before planting his seedlings in them and he says nothing greens up daylilies like Milorganite, and he mentions how many years he has been using it, but I don't remember the number, but a long time. Obviously it works well for him. I have not used it much over the past couple of years, but that was because I found my soil was already very high in phosphorus. This year I am mostly using 21-0-0.

I've found a source for manure but as yet still have to research what the horses are being fed.

UrbanWild said: It's made from sewage. The problem is. A LOT of compound make it through even the most aggressive of sewage treatments. And industrial wastes are not the only concern. Think about all the toxic products one can but from the store. Most of those get washed down drains and are processed by sewage plants. To add to this mess, think of sewers as mad collectors. Compounds can also be made as water streams hit each other and react. Be careful about "studies" facilitated by product proponents. What are they showing? Of the teens of thousands of compound, what did they actually test for? Testing is expensive and time consuming. Testing is usually done on a limited number of compounds that may be performed fairly inexpensively.

I guess by now you might have figured out that I'm not a fan of any of the processed sewage materials. That's the side affect of minoring in chemistry and having previously worked in an industrial waste department.

Paranioa strikes deep, into your life it will creep....

Before my home town got less labor intensive new system, they would simply pile the solid waste extracted from the city system into piles over the winter.
In the spring they/we would load up dump trucks with that slop and drive out to farmers fields and dump the sewage onto the field.

Now they use honey wagons.
I have dumped my cat litter into my compost heap, when I use just plain clumping clay (not fancy odor controlling etc., etc., etc. types) and used that in my vegetable garden.
Out side of my palsey, skin lesions and huge zits, it has not harmed one bit.

I used it on my bulbs in the spring for the low Nitrogen