Why You Need To Undertake Soil Analysis Before Purchasing A Lawn Fertilizer
Many of us express doubts on whether it is really necessary to undertake soil analysis before purchasing lawn fertilizer. To our minds, soil analysis comes across as something that should only be undertaken by large scale farmers, and other people who are in crop husbandry on a commercial basis. As lawn owners, we reckon that we can just ask our friends whose lawns are doing well what fertilizers they are using, and simply go ahead to purchase and make use of the same. We simply don’t see where the need for soil analysis comes from.
Horticulturalists and other landscape beautification experts will, on the other hand, insist that we need to undertake such soil analysis before purchasing lawn fertilizers. That is what leads us to the question as to why one really needs to undertake soil analysis before purchasing lawn fertilizers.
Several reasons can be advanced, as to why you need to undertake soil analysis before purchasing a lawn fertilizer:
1. If you go ahead to purchase a lawn fertilizer without undertaking soil analysis, you risk ending up buying the wrong type of fertilizer for your lawn’s soil: you have to keep it in mind, all along, that the reason as to why we buy fertilizers is to provide soils with nutrients they may be deficient in. You also come to realize that different fertilizers are meant to supplement different nutrients – and no one fertilizer can be said to provide all the necessary nutrients. Clearly then, we need to undertake soil analysis, to establish what particular nutrients our soils may be deficient in, and go on to buy the fertilizers that supplement those nutrients. What is particularly noteworthy here is that even two adjacent plots of land may end up being deficient in different nutrients (like where one is deficient in nitrogen, whereas the next is deficient in phosphorous). If you take to simply buying the fertilizer that your neighbor has been using, you could be in error: where it turns out that the nutrients that your neighbor’s soil was deficient in are not exactly the nutrients that your soil is deficient in. It is for such reasons that we can say that it is ideal to simply undertake soil analyses, before buying fertilizers.
2. If you go ahead to purchase (and apply) a lawn fertilizer without soil analysis, you risk ending up applying too much or too little of the fertilizer: you need to keep it in mind that the nutrients supplied to plants through fertilizers are like the foods we as humans eat – whereby having too little to eat would make us malnourished, whilst having too much to eat would bring us weight-related complications. It is the same way with plants, where providing them with too much fertilizer would be as hazardous (if not more so) as leaving them growing in nutrient-deficient plots. When all is said and done, chances are that the plot of land you will be seeking to establish the lawn on will already have its own natural supply of nutrients, and if those are adequate, and you supply it with more nutrients through the fertilizers, you would be effectively ‘overfeeding it.’ Simply put, soil analysis will show you the specific nutrients you need to supplement, and how far you should go in that supplementation.
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