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Granular Fertilizers: Proper Concentration Guide

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Your NPK, it's low you don't want to fertilize then because then you're going to you're just encouraging is just to fertilize when you actually sprout cast that seed so the thing what fertiliser is there's a lot of different varieties certain plants require a certain fertiliser

So if you're planting clovers you know clovers are nitrogen-fixing so they actually you know build the nitrogen level up in the soil so if you wanted to use a fertiliser for that you don't need a high nitrogen level fertiliser so you want to do like maybe like a five thirteen eight or a five-fifteen fifteen.

What could be a perfect Concentration?

It's typically about 350 to 400 maybe 3 to 400 pounds of a granular fertiliser per acre that's a lot of fertilizer.

NPK is so good and popular is because it's a foiler spray and you're giving that directly to the plants so and it cost way cheaper than a granular fertiliser remember you need three to four the fertiliser per acre with the farmers to touch NPK it's a 5:13 but you apply that directly to the plant so if you still wanted to fertilize with a granular fertiliser you can take your 3 to 400 pound per acre recommendation and not cut that down in half so you're saving money on that first initial you know spread fertiliser and then when the plants get 3 4 5 6 inches tall.

Because that way it's a hundred percent available to the plant because those plants are ingesting it through the plant the leaves itself so you can save on the front end but you're also saving you know on the back end and typically a fertiliser you know a 50-pound bag is anywhere from 10, 15, 20 dollars per 50 pounds and you would need three to four hundred pounds of that on your initial you know planting so it adds up with the farmers touch NPK.

Wrong or right way when it comes to that but a lot of people are on a budget so if you want to do it that way use the farmers touch cut your initial fertilization cost in half and to get the NPK nutrients you must know the start of that plant to grow and then when it gets up four or five six seven inches tall then you can foiler feed that with the farmers touch NPK but it's totally up to you.

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