Thanks a lot for that useful information. Happy summer to you.

hippy, It would seem that there is no chemical fungicide at all safe to use in the summer heat. If you think you have a fungus issue, the only thing left to use is organic. The organic community has been very satisfied with corn meal for nearly 20 years now. I'm not sure how greatly debated it is, but corn meal is the only reason I have a lawn. It was being consumed by fungus for all of 2001. By the time I tried the corn meal I had all but given up. Three weeks after the corn meal, I had new grass growing where it had been dead for months. Compost tea cannot be made in the summer. The purpose of compost tea is to extract beneficial aerobic microbes from compost, feed them in the presence of bubbled oxygen for 24 hours, and immediately spray that tea on the garden. The problem with doing that in the summer is that water at temperatures higher than 80 degrees cannot hold enough oxygen to support any aerobic biological life. It doesn't matter how much air you bubble through, the fact of chemistry is that warm water cannot hold enough oxygen. As soon as you put the compost into warm water, the beneficial aerobic microbes begin to die.

Yes, of course, my "common sense" approach to the burning of grasses would preclude doing it under conditions of "red flag" fire warnings and the like. I hope that went without saying. So there! ;) Overall, I've got to say that over the past couple days, this thread degenerated into one of the stupidest ones I've seen on GardenWeb in quite some time. And sadly, I feel my contributions were to blame for that stupidity more than anything else (except possibly for hortster...). So, I'd like to extend a sincere apology to all y'all for having dragged you down to my level in this fashion. On Holy Week, no less! I'm sorry. I wish you all the best on this Good Friday, and a happy Passover, et cetera. Cheers!

If you are seeing the symptoms, the damage has already happened. Had you realized you had used too much sooner and acted immediately, flooding the planting site with water may have carried enough of the product down deeper into the soil that it might have been taken out of range of those roots. Less is more when it comes to fertilizing azaleas, they are not heavy feeders. My soil is the right acidity naturally and doesn't need my interventon for ph, but I've never fertilized azaleas or rhododendrons at all. They are given a top dressing of compost in Spring, nothing more.