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What Does Deep Root Fertilization Entail?
Deep root fertilization applications have started to make a name for themselves with homeowners that have trees and large shrubs growing in their yards. By applying it beneath the surface of a lawn, high rates of fertilizer can be applied without causing any damage or killing the lawn. In addition to not causing a lawn to have dark green spots of tall grass where the fertilizer will be injected. The rates of fertilizer applied are, however, quite high so the saltiness of the fertilizer would normally kill the grass when the same fertilizer is applied straight onto a lawn.
Most lawn grasses have a fibrous root system and they will absorb the fertilizer, nitrogen in particular, very easily from the soil, which means the deeper rooted trees and shrubs will get none. By placing a complete fertilizer, one that contains all 3 elements of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, a few inches beneath the soil, it places this type of slower moving phosphorus and potassium right to where the roots will need feeding.
You can do deep root fertilization on your own trees and shrubs by using fertilizer stakes and pounding them deep into the soil, at least a few inches. You can also do this by irrigating your lawn and, while the soil is still damp, push a shovel into the soil at spacing about around 2 feet apart under the canopy.
The shovel should be pushed into the soil all the way, and then pushed forward so that a slit is cut by the shovel, then simply drop some fertilizer into this open slit. Then pull out the shovel out and push the slit, you must irrigate immediately after you have finished.
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