Calculate How Much Nitrogen To Put On The Lawn (ANY BAG)

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  • Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
  • No matter what bag of lawn fertilizer you look at there is a very simple way to determine how much to put down on your lawn and it has nothing to do with the "bag rate" stated on the side of the bag.
    If you know how much nitrogen you want to apply to your lawn in one application and you know the size of your lawn and the Nitrogen concentration percentage of the product you are planning on using then it's easy to know exactly how much product to put in your spreader.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 17

  • @mikecook9858
    @mikecook9858 29 днів тому

    Very helpful calculation. I hadn’t seen it put that way before.

  • @celworthy
    @celworthy Місяць тому

    sidewalk strip is looking good after that iron boost app!

  • @morte2195
    @morte2195 Місяць тому +2

    Woot! 50K Subscribers! Way to go Turf Mechanic.

    • @visionquest414
      @visionquest414 Місяць тому +1

      He should have more though.. Some of these people are a tough watch/listen. and they have ike twice as many subscribers.

  • @A-aronTrekn
    @A-aronTrekn Місяць тому +1

    Thanks for the spreadsheet!

  • @visionquest414
    @visionquest414 Місяць тому

    Hey, new subscriber to your channel.. my 2nd comment though,lol.. My favorite lawn channel without a doubt. You help me learn. I can't watch the video till later, but how do I decide what kind of fertilizer to purchase. I have a VERY small front yard. I simply want to go to home depot and purchase a bag of something as I know you NEED to fertilize your lawn.. Thanks for any feedback you can provide! :)

  • @JL-qo7cs
    @JL-qo7cs Місяць тому +3

    What if we don't know how much N we want to put down?

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  Місяць тому

      At that point you could fall back on the bag rate, the more you do it though you might start getting a feel for what you want to do and this is a simple way to start

  • @bobkozlarekwa2sqq59
    @bobkozlarekwa2sqq59 Місяць тому +3

    How do you calculate the correct spreader setting?

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  Місяць тому +1

      This one is trickier because it partly depends on how you want to do it. I never follow spreader settings on any bag, I never have for years. I always set my spreader down to the slowest setting that actually releases the product. Then I notch it up slightly and go over that lawn in multiple passes, sometimes 3-4 until it's all out. If you don't like that idea then fallow the bag rate setting but adjust your passes. For instance in this video bag rate told me 3lb of product per 1k with setting 4 on my Scott's spreader. Since I wanted to put 9lbs out that means I'd do setting 4 with my application per bag instructions and then do three passes over the lawn to get all 9 lbs of product down. After making many different applications you start to see and feel the correct setting too. That comes with time. For this application I guessed almost exactly correct and applied everything evenly on a single pass with nothing extra left. It was a perfect application but that only comes with time and experience.

  • @farquadshmoogle9120
    @farquadshmoogle9120 Місяць тому +2

    Dont say simple math. Have you not seen vids of guy asking college students simple math problems, & they cant do it. Young generation was raised by their phone, they cant do simple math.

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  Місяць тому +1

      Lol, luckily my core audience on this channel is between 35 and 65, I trust human adults to be able to comprehend this stuff. 😬 When my son starts mowing his own lawn 10 years from now I'll have to make an app for it and describe long division in the video. 🤣

  • @nmsauditor1a950
    @nmsauditor1a950 Місяць тому

    Still seems like a convoluted way. This is the most simple way I have found.
    Divide 8(the percentage of N in this product) into 100. 100/8=12.5.
    You need 12.5 lbs. Per 1000 sq. ft to get 1 lb. of nitrogen per sq. foot.
    If you want .75 lb. just multiply 12.5x.75.
    12.5x.75=9.56. 9.5 lbs. Of this product per 1000 sq. ft. to get .75 lbs. of N.

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  Місяць тому

      That's definitely another good way to do the math. Thanks for sharing, it may resonate better with some viewers out there.

    • @nmsauditor1a950
      @nmsauditor1a950 Місяць тому

      Hope it helps someone. I struggled with application rates until I discovered this simple math.