EXPERTS say this makes grass GREEN. DOES SUGAR ON THE LAWN WORK?

Does putting sugar on your lawn work? Does sugar do anything for grass or lawn health? Let's take a look!
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I followed the "experts" application rates and you can see what happens. a small area of lawn was hit with 4lbs of sugar. One week elapsed time between application and result.
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[@Thelawncarenut]

Well, according to podcasts I listen to, sugar causes cancer so maybe it should get lumped into the category with glyphosate eh? Also, I'm willing to bet your local grocery store requires you to wear Birkenstocks to enter. 😂

[@Lawncology]

Lol. If you want to avoid cancer these days, don’t breathe, don’t eat, don’t see the sun but don’t stay indoors. Basically, be dead. At least you won’t get cancer 😂 I can’t afford to shop at the place with the hippie footwear

[@RDAmidwest]

Never listen to California Podcasts. Besides, it never rains in California so they shouldn't even have grass lawns... just rocks, weeds, cacti & such.

[@bige1083]

@Lawncology if they were true hippies, they'd have everyone shop barefoot!

[@sethcornish8568]

"Known to the state of cancer to cause California" AvE

[@TherealBigJohnSt33l]

Well well well..... thank you I had heard and was interested with the rain coming up.

[@WisconsinEric]

I have been using blackstrap molasses on the lawn for 3 years, and on veggies and "other" plants for 15 years. I do not use it for the sugar, I use it for its 1-0-4 NPK and calcium, magnesium, iron, ect. Sugar cane is basically a type of grass, and molasses is an extract of its life juices. I get food grade blackstrap molasses for $6/quart(32oz) and apply at 12-24oz per 1000. Very low amount of sugar at that rate. Veggies and "other" plants get 1-1.5 teaspoons(1/4oz or less) per gallon.

[@Lawncology]

Yes molasses has many properties beneficial to the soil and plant. The micro/secondary nutrients will absorb foliar and provide benefit.

[@broth_78]

I’m using sugar to level my lawn this year!

[@Lawncology]

That’s the correct rate

[@broth_78]

@@Lawncology need to find someone that will deliver a dump truck full of sugar though.

[@Lawncology]

@@broth_78 should be easy

[@flch95]

Your lawn is already in great shape I wasn’t surprised that you didn’t see any change. These types of articles are generally aimed at the ugly lawns that have a lot of room to improve. In my experience, the closer the lawn gets to its “genetic limit” (to use a fitness term lol), the less changes and improvements you’ll see when applying products. I’ve observed this on my lawn as I’ve gone through lots of macro/micro products. Do they all just not work?! Maybe, but what’s more likely is that there’s only so much more green and thick it can get. I saw most of the changes early on in my DIY. Now I have a regimen going and things are stable I’m not seeing much change as it’s already green and healthy.

[@TofuInc]

That application rate is insane! 🤣 I've read quite a few studies on sugar application vs crop yeild and the only statistically significant thing to come from it appears to be attracting some beneficial insects. I don't want that on my lawn.

[@Lawncology]

Yes and some disease, stress resistance

[@Aerialphotovito]

Sweet video John holding out for more results 👍🏻

[@brandonhyden9454]

I thought it would draw 🐜. I’ll stick to sugar free. Well not just straight sugar. My bluegrass is brown grass in the 90°+ for 20 days. I’am not quite in the northern section of transition line. Maybe the line should be adjusted. Yours looks great 👍🏻.

[@Lawncology]

I have many things going for it and I’m going to put it through some serious stress with the coming heat bubble. Right now everything looks great and it’s going to continue to be hot and dry. The soil is staying hydrated enough to have mushrooms right now. I’m about to take an extra day out of my upper lawn watering schedule

[@wayneessar7489]

I think Teva corporation did a dive on this. We put .7 pounds a thousand of Dextrose sourced from the Beer brewing store. I have seen no harm and I think it is a spreader/sticker for foliar applications.

[@love2flash]

Well your lawn all ready looks awesome! From what i have been reading it is supposed to starve out crab grass and weeds.

[@mrob75]

I’ve added a 4lb bag and mixed it with my 1 gallon liquid grass fertilizer…I’ve never added it dry or in such copious amounts.

[@edhopkins6589]

Beautiful lawn

[@Lawncology]

Thank you

[@gerryhenning7337]

Isn’t this what your D-thatch is suppose to do also? Stimulate microbes? Seems like the sugar thing I’ll not do, but as far as a test goes it was worth the investigation I guess?! Great video!

[@Lawncology]

Yes. Be a compound source of food for bacteria. Nitrogen, sugars, yeasts, and other stimulating properties all go into making that work. What I wanted to see was the “green grass” claim.

[@gerryhenning7337]

@@Lawncology yeah, and that didn’t seem to come to fruition either, did it?!

[@Lawncology]

@@gerryhenning7337 no change visually. No growth difference anywhere. The only other thing I could have done is shut off irrigation and see if it held green longer

[@gerryhenning7337]

@@Lawncology yeah, who knows? For me, I’ll stick with things I believe in and I visually see work?!

[@blankman6626]

I think you have set a standard of pulling soil cores and running the sunjoe across the area to see how the sugar affected the area.😅

[@Lawncology]

I’m actually planning on that but one week isn’t enough

[@retheisen]

If you took the sugar and fed it to yeast to produce alcohol, which I hear has uses outside the garden, then you would have the alcohol and some amount of detritus which could also be applied to the lawn.

[@Lawncology]

🤫

[@richardsmith1161]

4. You could pull in ants from all over the state.

[@Lawncology]

Could. Haven’t seen that yet. I imagine with it melting through the soil it will be less likely

[@GrimmReapa]

I thought the sugar would make bugs sick giving them diarrhea and causing dehydration.

[@user-uz4xy4lh5k]

You level of turf science understanding is amazing. Did you go to school? Great looking bluegrass, im fighting dollar spot but ill win

[@Lawncology]

Thank you. Give it some extra N and feed the dollar spot away

[@user-uz4xy4lh5k]

Great thanks for the support. My yard looks great this is year 2 working with all your products and couldn't be more happy.

[@Lawncology]

@@user-uz4xy4lh5k that’s awesome!!!

[@richardsoapman99]

Speechless. Thanks for testing this for the community. 😂

[@Lawncology]

Lol you’re welcome

[@streetstylz]

Granular Molasses

[@Lawncology]

I’ve seen that as part of molasses “feed” is there a granular molasses that you’d recommend?

[@reallmccoy9043]

can you please do some Jerry Baker recipes on the lawn. Especially epsom salt.

[@Lawncology]

Real request?

[@reallmccoy9043]

@@Lawncology Yep

[@benharrison1069]

John, it seems to me that putting granular sugar on the lawn would attract insects to that area. If true, I doubt anyone would want that. BTW, it appeared to me that the sprinkler behind you in the video was not moving.

[@Lawncology]

The sprinkler moves nice and slow. 0.05” of water per rotation. Maybe insects maybe not. Nothing to report on that after a week. But also, I don’t recommend doing it

[@TRACKMKIII]

Looking forward to a molasses video.

[@Lawncology]

Coming soon!

[@garykennedy5263]

So we won’t be seeing Greene County granulated sugar anytime soon?

[@Lawncology]

Yeah no

[@stevenbanks4411]

Off topic, but is Air 8 supposed to smell bad? I got some the other day, and I'm just making sure I didn't get a bad batch

[@Lawncology]

Smell bad? It smells like “sharp earth”

[@stevenbanks4411]

@@Lawncology ok does sharp earth have a very pungent odor?

[@johnjrkean7008]

Lawns looking SWEET !!!! Oh my lord did i?! Yup I just said my first dad joke .....damn u cruel world!!!!!!!! 😫😖

[@Lawncology]

You w crossed over and there’s no turning back.

[@SVW1976]

Is there really crappy sugar? Or is there just sugar? Good video 👍

[@Lawncology]

I asked myself the same thing out loud

[@SVW1976]

@@Lawncology 🤣👍

[@richardharwell]

You forgot to give it the taste test.! I bet it taste sweeter than the other parts of the lawn," try it" !!! 😅

[@Lawncology]

I did!

[@richardharwell]

@@Lawncology 🤣🤣🤣

[@bertspro]

Could this feed bad fungi in the lawn?

[@Lawncology]

Yes. It will treat all the same

[@rashofbeatings]

The lawn is now diabetic, real nice

[@Lawncology]

I suppose insulin would be more expensive than sugar apps

[@davet8602]

Wonder what would happen on a lawn that was not in as good a condition to begin with.

[@Lawncology]

That’s a great question. I could do the same to my neighbors

[@trevormuggeridge4560]

First Aussie 😁. Antcology 😁

[@Striperman]

First

[@Striperman]

I like the prill size though 🤣🤣

[@Lawncology]

It’s almost the same size as sugar 😂

[@ColeSpolaric]

Come on, i want to see you go to the grocery store and buy 500 pounds of sugar as you record their reaction 😆

[@Lawncology]

Right? Costco

[@monkeyslawncareandgardenin473]

DThatch, has all the Cane you need

[@wayneessar7489]

I think Teva corporation did a dive on this. We put .7 pounds a thousand of Dextrose sourced from the Beer brewing store. I have seen no harm and I think it is a spreader/sticker for foliar applications.

[@Lawncology]

I like that rate better and yes I can see that as a benefit. Using a sugar source for certain apps or chemistry isn’t uncommon, I just read this article and wanted to see that happened. Too early to tell? Maybe. But I know right where is is so if anything suddenly shows up after different applications of materials, we will know the sogrce