McGeary Organics 5-3-4 Garden Fertilizer

Gardeners, support your soil by adding this organic fertilizer. It will increase the soil's nutrient-holding capacity and encourage beneficial organisms. When the soil is healthy, so are the plants, and they naturally resist insect pests as well as yield beautiful crops. This is McGeary's premium quality general use fertilizer. It is ideal for corn crops or lawns, as well as vegetables and fruits, ornamental trees and shrubs, and flowering annuals or perennials. Plants respond rapidly, making this the most popular blend for landscapers and gardeners. OMRI Listed and NOP compliant.

Like all McGeary fertilizers, McGeary Organics 5-3-4 base is compost. This formulation adds colloidal phosphate, Langbeinite (potassium magnesium double sulfate), porcine blood meal, steamed bone meal, and plant protein products. The compost base enables nutrients to be released as needed.

The application rates below are based on the nutrient needs of moderately high yielding crops being grown in soils of low to moderate fertility. Soils that have been well fertilized in the recent past, or have received manure or compost within the past year should be fertilized at rates lower, in some cases considerably lower, than those listed here. Always have a soil test done.

General: lb per 100 square feet is a good starting point. 1 cup = approximately ½ lb.

Lawns: cool season grasses such as Kentucky Blue Grass, Perennial Rye Grass, Tall Fescue and Fine Fescue, and Bent Grass apply 20 pounds / 1000 sq ft in the spring after the flush of rapid growth slows. Apply and additional 20 pounds in the mid to late fall. Warm season grasses such as Bahia, Bermuda, Blue Grama, Buffalo, Centipede, St. Augustine, and Zoysia should be fertilized 20 pounds /1000 sq ft in early spring. Apply an additional 20 pounds mid summer.

Vegetables and fruits: Recommendations range from 4 to 10 lb / 100 square feet, depending on the crop grown.

Flowering annuals: apply 4 lb /100 square feet prior to planting and 4 lb / 100 square feet again in mid summer.

Flowering perennials: apply 4 lb / 100 square feet prior to shoot growth in the spring, and again in late fall for late blooming plants.

Shrubs: apply 1lb / 100 square feet in the spring and 2.5 lb / 100 square feet in the fall.

Ornamental trees and shrubs: fertilize once in the early spring prior to new shoot growth. Apply 5 pounds to evergreen trees, and 8 pounds to deciduous trees. For small trees (under 15 feet) and shrubs use 1 to 3 pounds.

Small Jug Contents: Approximately 4 lbs (Weight varies per shipment due to moisture content.)

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