Can anybody suggest a source for lawn fertiliser at a sensible price?
Boxes of stuff like Evergreen are all very well, but I need at least 4
to feed my lawn just once and I can't help feeling that they are
overpriced.

I wondered about agricultural suppliers who may well do 25kg bags, but
I'm not sure what to ask for.

Any suggestions?

TIA

Steve

Steve wrote:
Can anybody suggest a source for lawn fertiliser at a sensible price?
Boxes of stuff like Evergreen are all very well, but I need at least 4
to feed my lawn just once and I can't help feeling that they are
overpriced.

I wondered about agricultural suppliers who may well do 25kg bags, but
I'm not sure what to ask for.

Any suggestions?

TIA

Steve


Go to an ag store and get something like 15-5-10 for a balanced
fertilizer, or 41-0-0 (agricultural grade urea) or 24-0-0 (ammonium
sulfate) for straight nitrogen. (be careful with straight nitrogen.)
Don't ask for 34-0-0 or they'll think you're a terrorist. It's usually
faster-acting than would be optimal for a lawn, so go light with it and
mulch your clippings so the lawn can recycle it.

Bob

In article ,
zxcvbob wrote:

Don't ask for 34-0-0 or they'll think you're a terrorist.

Not if you take ammonium-sulfate but if you insist on ammonium-nitrate,
they may keep you talking until the Fee Bees (FBI) show up.

- Bill
Coloribus gustibus non disputatum (mostly)

On May 29, 9:22 am, Steve wrote:
Can anybody suggest a source for lawn fertiliser at a sensible price?
Boxes of stuff like Evergreen are all very well, but I need at least 4
to feed my lawn just once and I can't help feeling that they are
overpriced.

I wondered about agricultural suppliers who may well do 25kg bags, but
I'm not sure what to ask for.

Any suggestions?

TIA

Steve

cut your fertillizer input by 50% by using a sharp blade and returning
the clippings to the turf.
If you are interested in saving further then do a soil test, adjust
your pH and apply only what is needed.

On May 29, 3:13 pm, Bill Rose wrote:
In article ,

zxcvbob wrote:
Don't ask for 34-0-0 or they'll think you're a terrorist.

Not if you take ammonium-sulfate but if you insist on ammonium-nitrate,
they may keep you talking until the Fee Bees (FBI) show up.

- Bill
Coloribus gustibus non disputatum (mostly)

Actually if you take the ammonium sulfate you will still get feds,
only the drug type as the tweakers are making anhydrous ammonia from
it to cook meth.

On 29 May 2007 14:28:03 -0700, beecrofter wrote:

On May 29, 3:13 pm, Bill Rose wrote:
In article ,

zxcvbob wrote:
Don't ask for 34-0-0 or they'll think you're a terrorist.

Not if you take ammonium-sulfate but if you insist on ammonium-nitrate,
they may keep you talking until the Fee Bees (FBI) show up.

- Bill
Coloribus gustibus non disputatum (mostly)

Actually if you take the ammonium sulfate you will still get feds,
only the drug type as the tweakers are making anhydrous ammonia from
it to cook meth.

Cripes. Around here there was an ongoing problem with the ******s
stealing anhydrous from farm tanks and the suppliers.

I guess they get one source under control and another pops up.

Charlie

On Tue, 29 May 2007 13:44:03 GMT, "Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan"
wrote:

Steve was forced to post this in:
rec.gardens

Can anybody suggest a source for lawn fertiliser at a sensible price?
Boxes of stuff like Evergreen are all very well, but I need at least 4
to feed my lawn just once and I can't help feeling that they are
overpriced.

I wondered about agricultural suppliers who may well do 25kg bags, but
I'm not sure what to ask for.

Any suggestions?

TIA

Steve

Here is what I use. It's bout 6 bucks a pint and covers most of my lawn.
I use it 4x a year so it's about $24 a year for me.

http://gardeningzone.com/catalog/pro...d-Fish-Liquid-
Pint.html

Michael

The fish sauce and pellitized fish fertilizer I use in the garden has a
definite....fish smell.... and highly interests our cat and dog. I
think I will try your brand. Thanks for the link.

BTW.... you're alright (except fer that violet murder thing) :-)

I tend to sharpen my poking sticks a bit much.

I'll try and blunt them a bit.

Care
Chuck,,,,,errr, dammit.....Charlie

Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
zxcvbob was forced to post this in: rec.gardens

Go to an ag store and get something like 15-5-10 for a balanced
fertilizer, or 41-0-0 (agricultural grade urea) or 24-0-0 (ammonium
sulfate) for straight nitrogen. (be careful with straight nitrogen.)
Don't ask for 34-0-0 or they'll think you're a terrorist. It's usually
faster-acting than would be optimal for a lawn, so go light with it and
mulch your clippings so the lawn can recycle it.

Bob

I use a mulching blade for leaves but I wonder if the oak leaves around
here put too much acid back into the soil. Any thoughts?

Michael



The soils in southern California tend to be quite alkaline. Here, there
is no such thing as an organic mulch that is too acidic.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening pages at http://www.rossde.com/garden/

Steve wrote:
Can anybody suggest a source for lawn fertiliser at a sensible price?
Boxes of stuff like Evergreen are all very well, but I need at least 4
to feed my lawn just once and I can't help feeling that they are
overpriced.

I wondered about agricultural suppliers who may well do 25kg bags, but
I'm not sure what to ask for.

Any suggestions?

TIA

Steve

I go to Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH) and buy their house brand of lawn
fertilizer. Of all brands (including house brands elsewhere), it has
the most nitrogen per dollar. Since I buy the fertilizer without weed
killer, I also use it in my flower beds.

For plants that are heavy feeders (e.g., roses, gardenias), I use
ammonium sulfate. With my alkaline soil, they appreciate the acid.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening pages at http://www.rossde.com/garden/

On Wed, 30 May 2007 00:48:15 GMT, "Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan"
wrote:


We do have a huge meth industry in our neck of the woods though Charlie.
If buying it is impossible they just steal it. Remember the guy a few
years back that operated a meth lab in the trunk of his car? Damned thing
exploded while he was driving it.

Michael

Same here and I do remember the explosion.

That fool deserved a Darwin Award.

They have busted several mobil labs (and a shitload of homelabs) in
this end of the state in the last few years as well. I am about one
hundred miles north of KC proper (lived in KC, KS side, a few years,
awfully crowded and busy for this country boy, and no place to grow
anything, including a family).

You be Careful, It's a Jungle Out There
Charlie

Thanks to everybody for the good advice,

Steve

"Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan" wrote in
.121:


BTW.... you're alright (except fer that violet murder thing) :-)

Ah.

:::adding Charlie's name to the Violet Gang ranks:::

Same problem here too - had a woman caught "cooking" it in her car - all
inside the door panels and everywhere...................
Going to a store and asking for cetain things can definitely raise some
eyebrows...........
next thing you know, they will be doing background checks on you before you
can buy any fertilizer...........

"Michael "Dog3" Lonergan" wrote in message
6.121...
Charlie was forced to post this in: rec.gardens

On 29 May 2007 14:28:03 -0700, beecrofter wrote:

On May 29, 3:13 pm, Bill Rose wrote:
In article ,

zxcvbob wrote:
Don't ask for 34-0-0 or they'll think you're a terrorist.

Not if you take ammonium-sulfate but if you insist on ammonium-nitrate,
they may keep you talking until the Fee Bees (FBI) show up.

- Bill
Coloribus gustibus non disputatum (mostly)

Actually if you take the ammonium sulfate you will still get feds,
only the drug type as the tweakers are making anhydrous ammonia from
it to cook meth.

Cripes. Around here there was an ongoing problem with the ******s
stealing anhydrous from farm tanks and the suppliers.

I guess they get one source under control and another pops up.

We do have a huge meth industry in our neck of the woods though Charlie.
If buying it is impossible they just steal it. Remember the guy a few
years back that operated a meth lab in the trunk of his car? Damned thing
exploded while he was driving it.

Michael

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On Tue, 29 May 2007 13:22:17 GMT, Steve
wrote:

Can anybody suggest a source for lawn fertiliser at a sensible price?
Boxes of stuff like Evergreen are all very well, but I need at least 4
to feed my lawn just once and I can't help feeling that they are
overpriced.

I wondered about agricultural suppliers who may well do 25kg bags, but
I'm not sure what to ask for.

Any suggestions?

TIA

Steve

After the meth lab post I didn't continue to read replies, so this may
be a repeat: Go to any farm and garden store, feed store, horse feed,
etc. and purchase alfalfa meal. It's almost all nitrogen and will
give nutrition to the microbes in the soil which will indefinitely
continue to restore nitrogen depletion. I never fertilize my turf, I
only water and mow it correctly, use a mulching blade which is very
sharp and never remove more than 1/4 of the blade when I mow...or I
should say when my sweetheart husband mows. We have the greenest turf
on the block.