Question
I can't buy corn gluten meal is this area, I would like to know if I could use the corn meeal we use for cooking?
In the past you have given me a tremendos amount of information,  I can't thank you enough.

Answer
Hi Jommy;
I answered this before, but it apparently didn't post. so here we go again.
Regular cornmeal won't do anything.
I use sugar on my lawn. The article I read said to use dry molasses, but if that was not available, plain sugar would work. I used both and I think I got better results with sugar.
Weeds love poor soil, and will not thrive in rich soil. Fertilizers kill beneficial microbes that enrich the soil. Putting down dry molasses keeps them alive.
When I first put down sugar, I had a yard full of crabgrass, johnson grass, dandelions, clover, dollar weed, you name it, I had it.
About 2 weeks after putting the sugar down, I saw about half as many weeds. I put down more sugar (don't know if I needed to do that) and in a few more mowings, there were no weeds to be seen. My grass thickened up and i put sugar down again in the fall. Fewer weeds came up the next spring. Each year there were fewer weeds that came up, and a few mowings, and they were gone. after the 4rd or 4th year, the weeds didn't even come up. I put down sugar each spring and fall, and i haven't had a weed since.
The only drawback id, my wild violets don't come back anymore. They are a weed, but I liked them.
I use 1 pound sugar per 250 to 300 sq.ft.
Water it in well.
You can still use fertilizer, if you like, but after you put it down, put down the dry molasses or sugar, and water them in together.
Watering is most important. to encourage a deep root system to protect against cold, heat, and draught damage, water to at least 6 inches deep.
Water again when the top 2 inches of soil are dry.
Since I started using the sugar, all we do is apply sugar in the spring and fall, and top dress in the spring with compost we make over the winter months. I only need to fertilize every 5 or 6 years, and uaually it only needs a little iron, rather than fertilizer.  
Our lawn maintenance is so much easier now, and we have a thick, lush lawn that stays greener longer in the fall, and greens up faster in the spring.
Charlotte