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Fertilizers with 12% or less nitrogen by weight

and certified by manufacturers to contain no PFAS.

. Check with your local garden store to determine availability and suitability of these fine products for your lawn. Some are also available online. Remember that you'll need much less of these products than you would of typical, water-soluble, high-nitrogen synthetic fertilizers.  

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Safer Brand Lawn Restore Fertilizer - provides your lawn and soil with all the nutrients it needs to promote soil vitality and healthy growth, develop robust root systems, repair thinning lawns, and alleviate stress conditions throughout the year.  

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Espoma Organic All Season Lawn Food is the ultimate all-purpose lawn food for any season!  It’s a rich blend of the finest natural & organic ingredients enhanced with our exclusive Bio-tone® beneficial microbes, keeping lawns a deep green color up to 3X longer than conventional lawn foods.

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Pro-Booster 10-0-0 is an excellent spring or summer top dress for soils that  need nitrogen. With 3.5 percent soluble and 6.5 percent slow release nitrogen, Pro-Booster 10-0-0  greens-up quickly and provides a longer lasting source of N than conventional fertilizers.

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Gardens Alive WOW! Phosphorus Free is both a fertilizer and a pre-emergent herbicide. It fertilizes your garden by making nitrogen available as it decomposes. Using corn gluten, it goes to work on weeds during germination—before you even see them. 

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Purely Organics Lawn Food is made with natural, plant based ingredients, not harsh chemicals or problematic biosolids. It's specially formulated to provide the nutrients needed to promote a lush, green lawn.

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Jonathan Green Organic Lawn Food is a complex, entirely organic lawn fertilizer that promotes the growth of healthy grass. The homogenous, easy-to-spread granules contain food-grade organics such as feather meal, soybean meal, and blood meal -  no manures or sludge-based fertilizers.

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Espoma Organic Spring Lawn Booster is a rich blend of the finest natural and organic ingredients enhanced with extra calcium, an important plant nutrient. It provides long lasting nitrogen that helps lawns with early spring green up. 

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Renaissance All Natural Organic Fertilizer is a granular fertilizer manufactured with natural ingredients. Renaissance fertilizers have been aggressively tested in independent studies at Iowa State University to ensure product performance.

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McGeary Organic Low Phosphorus Fertilizer

(6-0-4) is safe for kids and pets, contains no manure or foul odors, will not burn plants and releases nutrients slowly over time.  

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Encourage 11-0-4 is a natural complex of amino acids, nitrogen, and potash combined with powerful plant and soil stimulants, including soluble humate extract, soluble seaweed extract, and soluble yucca extract. Encourage 11-0-4 is a valuable addition to a well-balanced nutrition program for all types of plants.

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Pro-Gro 5-3-4 is a high nutrient blend of natural ingredients that plants and trees respond to with rapid and sustained growth, making it the most popular blend among nurserymen, landscapers, fruit and vegetable growers, and farmers.

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