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Anyway, I was poking around the Scotts website the past few weeks, and noticed that Scotts has recently come out with some new lawn products for this year.

One of these is an Azoxystrobin 0.31% granular fungicide. The implication of this, obviously, being that if you're in a bind and need Azoxystrobin quickly, you'll be able to get it at your local store instead of driving to a turf supply or ordering online to get Heritage-G, and waiting and paying shipping.

There are other new products, too, such as a new $100 "Elite" model spreader (wonder if it will be any more durable than their current ones). Also, a 34-0-0 50/50 fast/slow release N fertilizer with coated urea and a wetting agent built in, as well as a bunch more weed-and feed products (no thanks!) that are all nearly identical, including one with the pre-M built into it.

Personally, I think the Azoxystrobin is the most interesting, followed by the 50/50 urea fertilizer, and then the spreader (if it ends up being made to a decent quality unlike their other offerings of the past 10 years). The addition of yet more granular weed-and-feed products, on the other hand, is disappointing, imho.
 

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The bag size is 10lbs based on the label. Wondering about the price as well. The Azoxy 2SC pint comes out to about $35/oz AI, so if this is in the $18 range it would be about the same. I still think I'd rather spray.
 

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I welcome the competition to bring down the cost of this AI, and a granular product is a great option for people that need to treat soil-born fungi with it. I'd much rather apply a granular product for BP / SP / etc than what I have to do now - which is get the turf very wet, spray the product with soil drop nozzles, then water it more afterwards. On a large area it can be harder to keep the turf wet longer. It's probably environmentally safer to wrt drift. But, cost is an issue with things like Heritage G too. Nothings ever perfect!
 
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