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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@uslink.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Spreading fertilizer
  • Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:27:21 -0600

Mark,
When I need to spread small amounts of fertilizer over my 1.5 acres, I mix it with sand and use a Whirlybird Broadcast Spreader to spread it. Without the sand, I put too much on part of the garden and nothing on the rest.
You mentioned that one of your ingredients was a powder while the rest was granules. That can be problematic because by the time the fertilizer spreader moves even 10', all of the powder can settle to the bottom and the end of the row doesn't get any of it. I mix my fertilizer in a cement mixer and if the powdered fertilizer doesn't become saturated throughout in the first try, I use the whirlybird to spread the powder and the broadcast spreader for the granules. This means two fertilizer spreading passes down every row. I need the exercise anyway.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
www.bberryfarm.com
(218)568-8483 [Store]
(218)831-7018 [My Cell]



My soil recommendations for peaches indicated I needed 65 lbs. of N; 100
lbs. of phosphate; 95 lbs. of potash; 2.5 lbs. of zinc; 1 lb. of boron per
acre.

Mark Angermayer
Zone 5 Kansas- 11F been the coldest so far this season



  • [NAFEX] Spreading fertilizer, Jim Fruth, 12/14/2006

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