| To have a beutiful lawn you need
to do more than just mow it you
need to feed it, this page discusses fertilizers including the types, when
to fertilize and how much to use. |
| What is fertilizer |
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| Fertilzer is chemicals given to plants to promote and encourage growth. |
| There are many types of fertilizers on the market, to keep things
simple we will break it down into two basic catagories organic and synthetic or chemical.
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| Synthetic fertilizers - | These are man made fertilizers
they come in 2 types
- Soluble synthetic - chemical
- slow release synthetic - dry ,granual
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Slow release include- sulfer coated urea
- Ureaformaldehyde
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| Organic fertilizers - | These are natural fertilizers |
- Manure
- Blood meal or chicken meal
- Poultrey waste
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| All bags of fertilizer come with a label listing the analysis of the fertilizer in the bag. |
Major Plant Nutrients
The 3 large numbers are the major plant nutrients they represent the percentage of nitrogen,phoshorus and potassium. Example 21-5-7
would mean that there is 21% nitrogen,5%phosphorus and 7% potassium in each bag. |
Secondary Plant nutrients
Below the 3 large numbers is usually listed the secondary nutrients
,usually this will be Sulfur %, Iron % and Chlorine %. |
| How much and when to apply |
| Fertilizers are applied using sprayers and spreaders.
Fertilizers come in 2 forms soluble (liquid) and non-soluble (dry,granual), you use a liquid sprayer
for soluble and a rotary or drop spreader for non-soluble. |
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| Sprayers for liquid fertilizers - | Liquid sprayers include hose mount, dropplet and
high pressure. | |
| Spreaders for soluble fertilizers - | Spreaders include drop spreaders and rotary
spreaders | |