Generally with organic fertilizers you don't have to worry about burning. But this product includes blood meal, which I have read can burn if over-applied, though it is not clear to me exactly how.

How large is the area that you spread it over, and how many pounds do you have left? Was it a 29 pound bag?

If you want to do something right away, watering heavily won't hurt the slow release parts of the fertilizer, and may help dilute the blood meal. I'm sure it helps with synthetics, and I would guess it would with bloodmeal too, but I am just not certain since I don't understand how blood meal burns.

There is virtually no chance at all that Scotts or any other mixed non synthetic fert will burn under any circumstance. You'll smother your grass before you'll burn it.

Straight bloodmeal on the other hand can be, though isn't always, as high as 15% nitrogen and breaks down pretty quickly. While I've never had a burn with bloodmeal I tend to think that if it were over applied it could possibly burn if it weren't watered in fairly soon. Its so expensive however that the likelihood that you'll even have enough to over apply to a lawn isn't very high.

I have 800 sq ft and I used about 11 lbs out of a new 29 lb bag, so that's 37%. 37% of the whole bag which was suppose to be out of 4000 sq ft, so that's almost 1500 sq ft material or twice as much as I need.

I don't understand because I used slightly lower setting on the spreader than they recommended.. but the material went so quickly anyway. I had to fill up some more to finish the other areas. So the first area that I did might be over applied. But it is definitely not to the point of smothering at all.

Thanks for the responses, the nitrogen from this seem to come from the feathermeal..

Your lawn will be fine. You probably wont need to fertilizer for awhile now.

The nitrogen comes from Blood Meal and Feather meal.

Geez....

);

Why not just go out and collect up all the ROAD KILL you can find, grind it up into a CHIPPER, and then blow it into a gory red 'compost pile' ?!?

Same thing..... !!

That's actually what I like about it - this stuff has more "waste stream" product than any grains. And I think that chipper idea is awesome, can't think of a better way to recycle roadkill!

Except maybe for what we all think up here is happening at the "roadkill grill" down the street...

;-)

Just a P.S., I have a small lawn also, so it is fairly easy for me to just weigh out the material before loading it into the spreader, and then set the spreader at a significantly lower setting than suggested. This way, even if I have to crisscross the lawn again and again, and maybe adjust the spreader setting from time to time based on how quickly the stuff seems to be dropping, I am always sure I didn't apply too much product, and on a small lawn it's not really a big deal to do that.

Road Kill Compost. Don't knock it. Nature feeds itself all kinds of things.