{"id":9352,"date":"2012-06-07T19:18:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T00:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=9352"},"modified":"2012-06-07T21:40:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T02:40:31","slug":"fertilize-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/06\/fertilize-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Fertilize Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fertilize Smart PSA\" width=\"1110\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n1wh2gWFk-8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, Lee County passed a fertilizer ordinance. Still, many people don&#8217;t know about it. Its goal is to reduce the number of fish kills and algae blooms and to preserve water quality.<\/p>\n<p>Phosphorous and nitrogen are the two main ingredients not allowed during the rainy season \u2013 June through September.<\/p>\n<p>Fertilizer use is also prohibited within 10 feet of a body of water, seawall or wetland.<\/p>\n<p>Some weed killers and fertilizers will state right on the bag &#8211; &#8220;don&#8217;t use near water.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately it doesn&#8217;t come without a lot of explanation,&#8221; said Karen Bickford, with Lee County Natural Resources.<\/p>\n<p>Bickford helped write Lee County&#8217;s fertilizer ordinance &#8211; not only helping the environment, but also saving homeowners money on fertilizer that would have been wasted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you put it down right before a very heavy rain storm, it&#8217;s not going to soak into the ground, it&#8217;s going to run off the surface and into the water sheds,&#8221; Bickford said.<\/p>\n<p>Because in state surrounded by water, all lawns eventually lead to playgrounds like the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Lee County Natural Resources does enforce this fertilizer ordinance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee-county.com\/gov\/dept\/NaturalResources\/WaterQuality\/Pages\/FertilizeSmart\/fertilizesmart.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to learn more about fertilizer ordinance.<\/p>\n<p>you can view this video also at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/6198266\">http:\/\/vimeo.com\/6198266<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, Lee County passed a fertilizer ordinance. Still, many people don&#8217;t know about it. Its goal is to reduce the number of fish kills and algae blooms and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}