{"id":2541,"date":"2012-02-09T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2012-01-31T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T21:44:19","slug":"general-treeshrub-fertilizer-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2012\/02\/09\/general-treeshrub-fertilizer-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"General Tree\/Shrub Fertilizer Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fertilize most landscape shrubs and trees\u00a0in\u00a0winter or early spring with a granular 10-10-10 at a rate of 20 lbs. per 1,000 square feet when the ground cover is dry. A 19-19-19 fertilizer is\u00a0distributed at 10 lbs per 1000 square feet. Distribute within an area 3 feet out from the trunk or shrub crown and 5 feet beyond the end of the branches. Most of us don\u2019t care to haul a 20 or 40 lb bag of fertilizer from one tree to the next. A one pound coffee tin holds about 2 pounds of fertilizer.<\/p>\n

Encapsulated slow release fertilizers deliver the nutrients soil temperatures are warm. Each capsule, called a \u201cprill\u201d, is soil moisture and temperature sensitive. The prill meters out a precise amount of the 3 key nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) over a 3, 5 or 9 month time period. In the warmest areas of the U.S., slow-release fertilizers deliver in a shorter time period. Prolonged drought periods also interrupt prill release. Overwatering meters out fertilizer faster and plants often appear nutrient-starved by late summer.<\/p>\n

Water soluble fertilizers such as Miracle-Gro\u2122, Miracid\u2122, Jacks\u00ae, Peters\u00ae, or Hollytone\u00ae are great alternatives. These fertilizers are effective for 4-5 weeks and are usually applied bi-monthly from late March thru mid-August on a 6-8 week schedule.<\/p>\n

In most areas spring rainfall is adequate to water the fertilizer in and leach it down to the tree\/shrub root zone. Otherwise, you should irrigate to carry down whatever product you\u2019ve applied.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that these are general recommendations and some plant exceptions apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Fertilize most landscape shrubs and trees\u00a0in\u00a0winter or early spring with a granular 10-10-10 at a rate of 20 lbs. per 1,000 square feet when the ground cover is dry. A 19-19-19 fertilizer is\u00a0distributed at 10 lbs per 1000 square feet. Distribute within an area 3 feet out from the trunk or shrub crown and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[665,202,159,630,1,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}