O/T, nitrogen on grass

fixerupper

Well-known Member
This is a little O/T, but the locals around here don't have an answer for me. My 1600 gallon nurse tank had about 125 gallons of 28% nitrogen left over in it, and I want to use the tank for hauling water to the sprayer so I filled the tank to the brim with water and then sprayed about a thousand gallons of the water/nitrogen mix on approximately 2/3 acre of blue grass.

What's gonna happen to the grass? By my figures the grass received about 250-275 LB of actual N. Blue grass is kind of tough to kill, but-------. The grass is on good clay based soil and we've had plenty of rain with more forecast.Jim
 
A quick calculation says you put on about 270 lbs per acre of Nitrogen. Should have a heck of a lot of grass out of that but don"t feed it straight to any stock and if you hay it, have it tested.
 
You may have an initial burn, but with adequate rainfall you won't have any problems.

The standard for lawn application is one pound of nitrogen per thousand square feet twice a year or 43 pounds per acre twice a year.

Sharpen up them lawn mower blades!
 
Sounds like someone around here is doomed to a lot of mowing once the initial shock is over. This grass was seeded late last August on land that had been excavated and leveled, on a vacant farm, so it's not my home lawn. It's about as lacking of nitrogen as anything can get so I figured there wasn't much to lose. There's one spot on this patch where a dog relieved itself and that spot is four times taller and dark green.

I'm leaving for the harvest today, gonna visit some of you guys in southwest OK, so I won't have the chance to watch my little experiment. Jim
 

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