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Posted by mark on May 26, 2007 at 13:29:51 from (172.129.89.214):
In Reply to: Re: Matt Kane posted by IaGary on May 26, 2007 at 12:35:12:
You know....for the average person raising a garden, the easiest thing is to just apply a balanced fertilizer and be done with it. I don't know if you would ever get too much phosphorous or potassium using something like 10-10-10 or 12-12-12 and as mentioned already, you'll need to replenish nitrogen regularly. Some people use no N on melons...they use something like 0-25-25.......which really feeds the P and K to the ripening fruit. Corn sucks all the N out of the soil, while legumes...like beans, fix N back in the soil. If I was just raising beans....I'd use something like 5-10-10 or 6-12-12. However, if you just bought 10-10-10 and used it on everything, you'd get a good yield and simplify your fertilizer inventory. Even when using a balanced fertilizer on corn.....it helps to add more nitrogen when the corn is about knee high....in the form of ammonium nitrate (34-0-0). On my sweet corn, I use 19-19-19 and then side dress with aN because as the corn grows, it is really feeding heavily...the ammonia will make it jump. If your pH is neutral...you're in great shape. If the pH is out of balance, it binds up the nutrients so the plants can't absorb them properly. Go buy you some 10-10-10 and be happy! If you wonder why then I use 19-19-19....because it takes less of it. It's pretty hard to apply too much when using 10-10-10.
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