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Steveo · 24-03-2007, 01:45 PM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden

wrote:
On Mar 24, 6:29 am, Steveo wrote:
"Bob" wrote:
On Mar 22, 8:38 pm, Steveo wrote:
"Bob" wrote:
On Mar 21, 5:15 pm, Steveo wrote:

The herbicide carrier dilutes the amount of fertilizer per
pound of product.

Where in the hell did you get an idea like that?

Simple math, and I do mean simple.

24-0-0 will do 12,000 sq ft with a full pound of N in a 50 lb bag.

Is this your first year in lawncare, Bob?

I guess you're a politician since you doubletalk and dodge the
issues. You said the herbicide carrier dilutes the amount of
fertilizer per pound of product. It doesn't. There is just as much
fertilizer in a bag whether it has a herbicide or not. There is
filler in every bag and the herbicide uses up about 1/4lb of the
filler, not the fertilizer.

Double speak and back-peddle. You know exactly what I mean.

You said a full pound of N in a 50 lb bag will do will do 12k sq ft.
Since there's 12 pounds of N in a 24-0-0 bag, are you saying it'll do
144k sq ft?

I've already told you how many sq ft it will do, read it again.

And no, I have a hell of a lot of years of lawn & AG experience along
with a wall full of certificates from one of the top AG colleges in
the country. What do you base your lack of knowledge on?
Bob

The company I own treats around fifty million sg ft per season.

Now please be ****ing off, Bob.

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Before resorting to vulgarity, perhaps we should revisit the question
that was posed.
As the question was stated, it appeared to me that
what the OP was saying was that he had two bags of fertilizer, that
were marked 24-4-4. To me, that indicates that they both have the
same amount of nutrients per pound. For one bag to provide 8500 sq ft
coverage and the other 15,000, there are only two possibilities:

1 - The bag marked 15000 coverage is 1.75 times as large as the other

The OP said they're both 50 pounders.

2 - The bag marked 15000 is assuming it is applied at a proportionally
lower rate than the other when they say what area it will cover.

3 One is a weed and feed. There's less fertilizer in that 50 pounds of
product because of the herbicide content. Real simple.

Bob only attempts to pick apart peoples advice, (see the pre-emergent
thread) he never actually answers the question. That's why he's in my bozo
bin now.