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 |
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