Proper Application of Fertilizer

Fertilizers are needed by the plants in order for them to get the right nutrients and to grow well. It will also ensure the best result of your plants. Fertilizer aid in replenishing and maintaining long-term soil fertility by providing optimal conditions for soil biological activity. Proper applying of the fertilizer should be observed because too much fertilizer will cause abnormalities in your plants. Here are some general tips to be followed:

1. All fertilizers should preferably be applied before sowing.
2. Fertilizer should preferably be broadcast uniformly and harrowed in.
3. All fertilizers that contain soluble phosphates should preferably be applied in wide bands of between 2.5 and 5 cm on each side of thee rows of seeds at a depth of 10 to 15 cm.
4. The super phosphate fertilizer should preferably be mixed with farmyard manure (in particular organic manure from dairy farms works excellent.)
5. Fertilizer types that include sulphate of ammonia can be used as a top dressing, but do not apply this type of fertilizer when the leaves of the plants are wet.
6. The application of fertilizer should preferably be followed by watering when applied to irrigated crops.
7. When fertilizing fruit trees, the fertilizer should preferably be applied to the soil under the crown. The crown is the area about a few meters away from the trunk. As the tree grows this crown area expands and then fertilizer should also be applied as per the crown of the fruit tree.


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