I am going to pick up a 2,500 lb. pallet of 19-19-19 today. That is 50 50lb. bags for $387.50. Lime I got for $1.99 a 50 lb. bag. Amonium Nitrate seems higher this year too; $9 a 50 lb. bag. I just got 9 bags of 34-0-0. The wife wanted a big garden this year and wanted an early start so I am on it. :thumbsup:
What are you paying for fertilizer?
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Well with temperatures up to 60F, I thought about tilling until I tapped my foot in the soil and it went squish. The grass is still brown and also makes the squishy sound when you walk on it. The one year I made an early start, I ended up brushing the snow off my plants on Easter Sunday. Getting an early start in my experience tends to guarantee an extended winter. :lmao:
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I can certain understand that! 
Been there and done that a time or two also. You can still get your lime and fertilizer down while the ground is wet and run a core aerator over the turf before hand if you can get your hands on one.
Been there and done that a time or two also. You can still get your lime and fertilizer down while the ground is wet and run a core aerator over the turf before hand if you can get your hands on one.
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Well, I don't use cem's myself. But what I do is go to the feed store, and get what I can the cheapest. So many of the feeds mak AWSOME ferts. Last year I picked up alfala meal, for $5 for 50lbs. Someone orderd a few bags, and never picked them up. They just wanted to get rid of them. Will do the same this year. Alfala meal, or pellits, cotton sead meal, corn meal, all make a great fert, AND the kids can help put it down.
As for WHEN I can put it down? Well, I got a LOT of time yet. JUST having our first winter melt. Then when winters done, we have mud season. Best I can hope for is the begening of May to START working out side.
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Ammonium nitrate is $5.00 a 50# bag in quanities less than a 40 bag pallet at the local feed mill. Triple 8 or 13 is about 6 bucks a bag in small quanities.
About the only fertilizers I use any more is a few bags of triple 8 or 13 in and around odds and ends and usually apply ammonium nitrate around my corn once its up and going, and sometimes on my field. I am not counting any special blends of fertilizer the wife may buy for her roses and other plants which would be small bags anyhow, or the fertilizer I usually use every couple of years on my centipede grass lawn.
Our temps have been in the mid to upper 70's since the past weekend, and yesterday it hit 81 deg here. The garden is all tilled up and ready to plant, with this weekend hopefully being the day I plant it.
About the only fertilizers I use any more is a few bags of triple 8 or 13 in and around odds and ends and usually apply ammonium nitrate around my corn once its up and going, and sometimes on my field. I am not counting any special blends of fertilizer the wife may buy for her roses and other plants which would be small bags anyhow, or the fertilizer I usually use every couple of years on my centipede grass lawn.
Our temps have been in the mid to upper 70's since the past weekend, and yesterday it hit 81 deg here. The garden is all tilled up and ready to plant, with this weekend hopefully being the day I plant it.
not to sound like too much of a a nutty cruchy granola guy.. But I use corn gluten meal for fertilizer.. mostly because i have a pond and figure id rather use something natural that wont kill or harm the fish..
given the choice id rather not use the chemicals..
although come spring, when im pulling zillions of daisys.. i wish id have used some 'weed N feed'
given the choice id rather not use the chemicals..
although come spring, when im pulling zillions of daisys.. i wish id have used some 'weed N feed'
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Same page as you SJ. My wife says about me "He's not a tree hugger, but dam close"
Not sure what you guys are concerned about with bag fertilizer. We have used it in the past to get newly built ponds to start growing algae. Too much of any type of plant nutrient is bad for the pond. Corn gluten meal or any others included. Anhydrous ammonia is a totally different animal. As long as you have reparian filter strips around streams and bodies of water, you should be fine with reasonable application of fertilizers.
not to hijack this thread... but speaking of dandy lions.. i got a dandylion puller from home depot last year... it really works well.. its about 2-3 feet tall and you push it into the ground and it deroots the weed. it pulls the roots of the dandilion and you dont need to bend down.. saves the back...Originally posted by Chief
I don't use weed n feed since I have zoysia grass. It does not react well to it. I spot spray with weed be gone and am obsessive compulsive with a screw driver at pulling up Dandy Lions.
found it.. Im on dialup so it was painful...
The weed hound...
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the weed hound site
The weed hound...
<img src=http://www.hound-dog.com/images/weed_photo.gif>
the weed hound site
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