
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">If you’re not chopping leaves, do that first. Then worry about the extra urea.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 21, 2017, at 10:30 AM, Jon Clements <<a href="mailto:jmcextman@gmail.com" class="">jmcextman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I really question whether the urea will do much extra good given the cool spring ambient and soil temperatures?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good luck.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jon</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 2:24 PM, David Doud <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:david_doud@me.com" target="_blank" class="">david_doud@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So - I applied urea in a spray last november, but I am not impressed with the breakdown of the apple leaf litter - I just ordered oil and copper for the first spray this spring and I wonder about adding urea into the mix in hopes of accelerating decomposition - - any reason not too?<br class="">

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