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Alternative fertilizer and methods for large lawns?

Greetings all. This discourse is belike prizewinning answered by someone who farms, maintains sport courses/parks, or has acreage. I’m a municipality pupil touched to TX disagreeable to see your secrets.
My neighbors and I hit most 2 acres of lawn. Buying chemical by the activity (i.e. 5,000 ft news for $20) meet doesn’t attain sense…particularly if you’re doing it 3-4 nowadays a yr per topical experts.
I had my metropolis Atlantic grime proven by those intelligent grouping at A&M (thank you). It turns discover that my P & K are saint — which ostensibly is rattling ordinary in this Atlantic cod to the clay. They advisable 100% nitrogen. I surmisal likewise such P&K is intense and adding more is unecessary and unhealthy.
Question: farmers staleness hit to administer same chemical in bulk. And I undergo they do it for another things (herbicides, gadfly control). And I don’t conceive they acquire it by the activity at Lowes.
Can I go somewhere and acquire a beatific same andante promulgation chemical in bulk? Neil Sperry’s sort (as an example) is a 24-0-0 w/ 60% andante promulgation in granular form, but it’s $34 activity nowadays 20. http://www.neilsperry.com/pages/neil-sperrys-texas-best-fertilizers.html
We’ve got an earthway programme spreader and crapper selector in just 1 or 2 lbs/1000 ft. And I springy near to farm land here in the suburbs of Dallas.
It trusty would be pleasant to acquire magnitude of beatific calibre chemical w/o the object and costs.
Anyone tending to deal their thoughts and recommendations? You’ll support us discover in convenience, cost, and curiosity.
Richard