Mix Fertilizer
Fertilizer is ideal for encouraging healthy plant growth. Fertilizer is used on plants, trees, flowers and any other living foliage growing in the ground. Fertilizers come in different ratios, with a mixture of different ingredients. Some fertilizers are specified as rose food and some are specifically for palm trees. Look through the variety of fertilizers at any home and garden store to find one just right for what you are growing. If you are mixing up a batch of your own, there are a few simple rules to follow.
Instructions
1. Use a shovel to mix the ingredients for this fertilizer in a wheel-barrow. For an example, this mixture will be for Japanese maples.
2. Put 4 parts of seed meal and 1/4 part agricultural lime in the wheelbarrow.
3. Add in 1/4 part gypsum, finely ground. You can omit this ingredient if you double the agricultural lime.
4. Include in the fertilizer mixture 1/2 part dolomitic lime and 1 part bone meal.
5. Mix in rock phosphate and 1/2 part kelp meal. Or, use high phosphate guano instead of the rock phosphate and 1 part basalt dust instead of the kelp meal.
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