I cleaned out the shed and returned to Home Depot things I overbought over time and never used. The wife gets the orange store credit for her fun.
She bought bags of "Vigoro Citrus & Avocado Plant Food" of NPK 6-4-6.
Alls I ask is what do they do with it to make it specific to those plants?
Not much. To a certain extent, it's a marketing scheme.
Different plants prefer different balances of NPK. If you have an avocado and buy the one labeled "avocado", you don't have to think about it.
I buy a couple of different fertilizers. I use more phosphorus and less nitrogen when I plant garlic in the fall. I use more nitrogen in the spring when it's putting up new growth. I don't worry about whether it's labeled "roses" or "vegetables" or "evergreens". I just look at the numbers and buy what I need.
Cindy Hamilton
Hell, I just bought a bag of triple six or triple eight- depending on which was cheaper at the Home Depot- for years and tossed it on the lawn and the flowering shrubs along with some lime.
My subdivision doesn't award a Yard-Of-The-Month stick-in sign but if it did, we would have been a lock all summer ;-)
What else is in the bag ? What you have is a small ammount of plant food of the 3 main ingreadents and a lot of filler material. Sometims the filler material will have other chemicals in that plants need.
If that is all that is in the bag, you could have bought 8-8-8 or 10-10-
10 and not used as much per square foot.
That's nice. I want nice, big, heads of garlic and I'm willing to cater to the plants' needs to get it.
I don't fertilize my lawn or shrubs (except that I blow the leaves under the shrubs every fall and leave them to compost).
Cindy Hamilton
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