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Re: Amount of 10-10-10 per square

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Lessee, now, George:  For lawns they say you shouldn't exceed 1 pound of
nitrogen per thousand square feet per month, so that would mean 10 pounds of
10-10-10, using nitrogen as the ceiling nutrient.

That would mean you would put 1/100th of a pound per square foot, or 4.54
grams per square foot.

Compost typically rates at 1-1-1, in the NPK department, and weighs about
800 lbs per cubic yard, roughly 30 pounds per cubic foot. An inch of compost
per square foot of garden supplies two and a half times more NPK than would
the above amount of 10-10-10, and it would be safely metered out by the
humus to the plant.....

Some people like the fact that the 10-10-10 is soluble and thus immediately
available to the plant, but organic gardeners use seaweed and/or compost
tea, often right at transplanting, to get the same effect a bit more
naturally...

Hope this helps,

Frank Teuton

-----Original Message-----
From: Weir, George <GEORGE@NATLDIAG.COM>
To: sqftlistbotcom <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 9:57 AM
Subject: Amount of 10-10-10 per square


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>Hi all.  I'm a new Gardner with a question.  When planting a square in a
>square foot garden as a general rule how much 10-10-10 fertilizer is needed
>per square.
>
>Thanks
>
>George in Charlotte NC
>
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