Question
I have several patches of clover and other weeds in my lawn, I put down a fertilizer about 2 weeks ago and my lawn looks a little greener, but the clover is still prominent, I live in the south eastern part of Wisconsin, can I use your sugar technique, this would seem to save a ton of money and time.  Any advice??

Answer
Hi Scott;
You have to get those chemicals out of your soil before organics will work.
If you bought a ton of earthworms now and put them in your lawn, in a day or two all of them would be dead from the chemicals in that fertilizer.
Water the heck out of the lawn until you flush that stuff down and out through the soil.
I would soak it to a depth of at least 6 to 8 incjes, wait a few days and do that again.
Do that about twice a week, for a couple of weeks, then put down the sugar.
If you can get hold of someone that has a comost pile and get some of that compost and toss it around your yard at the time you put the sugar down, you would get a better start.
That compost has a lot of the micro-organisms you want to get started in your soil, and the sugar does NOTHING but nourish these micr0-organisms.
The sugar keeps them healthy and reproducing, and THEY continually enrich and improve your soil.
They will in not too long a time, balance out your soil PH, and it will get richer and richer.
Weds ( clover is in this catagory) will not thrive in rich soil, so they will start to die out as soon as they come up in the spring, uintil in a few years, the soil will be rich enough that they won't even last long enough for you to see them, IF they even come up.
I haven't seen a weed in my yard for about 8 years.
That fertilizer fed your grass, but it also fed the clover.
Chemical fertilizers feed EVERYTHIUNG growing in the soil, weeds included, then wear out, and you have to reapply it.
The orgainc program works continually.
Do you need me to send you a copy of my organic program?
I haver it ready to copy and paste. Write if you would like to have it.
Charlotte