Or so, anyway. October's lawn feeding will also be urea, but I'll time that with the next rainfall. That looks to be around October seventh.
The grass is looking fairly good. Myrtle (the robot) broke and I have yet to replace the main board, so this is being done manually.
The standard garden shot shows pretty good color remaining, although things are drifting out of shape a bit and starting to bronze as the season moves on.
The rose bush is still happily producing roses at a very high rate. A few of these are finding homes in cast resin as paperweights and jewelry.
The mailbox garden looks good this year! The blue salvia are all volunteers, as is the rear yellow Melampodium. The front one I planted, and between the two they ate most of the marigolds.
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Four Weeks Left
Saturday, September 1, 2018
2018 Garden Additions
2018 featured a little more nitrogen and an extra September application of urea to the gardens. I'd irritated a torn meniscus in my knee, which meant that September's lawn feeding was urea instead of soybean meal (to lighten the weight I had to carry). It was just as easy to also apply around 2.5 pounds per thousand square feet of urea to the gardens as well to cover September growth and blooming.
As the knee had been bothering me a bit, I also went with soybean meal more through the season so I only had to walk through carrying the buckets once. That's also the reason for the urea additions late in the season, in addition to having a very rainy September that precluded injecting nitrogen via the watering system.
Just as last year, I didn't list the slow calcium I added this year, about 20 pounds per thousand square feet. That will gently release over the next few years, holding the pH in the lower 6 range.
| Date | N | P | K | Iron | Organics | Other Notes |
| 5/7/2018 | 1.32 | 0.30 | 0.25 | 0.36 | 21.5 | Milorganite, Soybean Meal |
| 6/1/2018 | 1.32 | 0.30 | 0.25 | 0.36 | 21.5 | Milorganite, Soybean Meal |
| 7/1/2018 | 1.75 | 0.25 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 25.0 | Soybean Meal |
| 8/1/2018 | 1.75 | 0.25 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 25.0 | Soybean Meal |
| 9/1/2018 | 1.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Urea |
| 9/15/2018 | 0.69 | 0.52 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Urea, Monoammonium Phosphate |
| 10/1/2018 | 1.15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Urea |
| Total per K ft: | 8.13 | 1.62 | 1.50 | 0.72 | 93.0 | 186.0 active organic total |