Fertilizer is food for your lawn, providing essential nutrients to your soil and rejuvenating your grass. It's a great tool to improve the overall quality of your lawn, but where do you start? With so many different products on the market it can be difficult to pick the right one. Tee Bar Sod is here to help!
We fertilize our sod prior to your purchase, so we recommend waiting a minimum of 2 weeks after installation to fertilize. Applying fertilizer too soon risks burning the roots of the grass.
We fertilize with a commercial grade of 25-10-10-6. What does this mean?
All fertilizer labels have three bold numbers. The first number is the amount of nitrogen, the second number is the amount of phosphate, and the third number is the amount of potassium. Therefore, we use a fertilizer that contains 25% nitrogen, 10% phosphate,10% potassium, and lastly 6% sulfur.
Selecting a Fertilizer Grade
The best way to select a fertilizer grade is to have your soil tested. The soil test report will recommend a fertilizer grade for your use.
Typical grades recommended for lawns and gardens include:
5-10-5
5-10-10
10-10-10
8-0-24
6-6-18
Spreading Fertilizer
Have you ever seen a lawn that looked like it had different coloured stripes? This was probably caused by spreading fertilizers the wrong way.
To make sure that the colour and growth of your plants are the same, fertilizers must be spread evenly.
The most popular types of fertilizer spreaders are the drop spreader and the broadcast spreader. Broadcast spreaders generally provide the best results. Make sure when you spread the fertilizer that you overlap your spread pattern by Applying half the material in one direction and the remainder in the opposite direction. Break up any clumps so that the fertilizer won't get clogged in the spreader.
Don't forget to water!
Watering after fertilizing washes the fertilizer off of the grass blades and into the soil, where it can get to work nourishing your lawn.
It’s also important because if fertilizer sits too long without being watered in, it can burn the grass.
If using a liquid fertilizer, wait until it dries (approx. 2 to 4 hours) before applying water.
If it’s granular fertilizer, water right away.
20 minutes of watering should do the trick!
If you can, let the rain help you out! If the forecast predicts 1/4 inch of rain, try to time your fertilizer application just before the expected rainfall. However, if a heavy rainfall is predicted, avoid fertilizing, as the rain can flood your lawn and wash away the fertilizer.
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