Feeding your plants is just as important as watering them. Customers come in all the time asking us why their trees, shrubs, etc are dying. When we ask what they fed with and they say nothing, we have easily found the culprit. Plants need to eat just like us!
At the nursery, we sell Harrell's as our #1 plant food and fertilizer. We recommend it for every plant whether they're trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, or even veggies. Over the years, I have come up with the perfect combination of nutrients so that plants get everything they need without giving them too much of anything else. Through this company, we are able to get our fertilizer made for us with a 17-6-12 formula giving us the right amount of nitrogen (17%), phosphorus (6%), and potassium (12%).
This fertilizer is great because it is slow releasing. That means you don't have to put it on as much as something like Holly Tone and it will continue to feed your plants for up to 9 months. The white is what is released first because it's water soluble. As soon as you put it down and water, it will begin feeding your plants. The brown in the iron and the green has layers so that it will continue to feed for most of the year.
People come in as soon as the season starts looking for these 4 pound jugs. For $18.49, you can feed a lot, but we also offer 11 pound bags and even a 50 pound bag for those with a lot of plants.
This video is a perfect explanation of how to apply the fertilizer to a tree, but it works the same for other plants. It is very important that you spread the mulch away from the base of the tree so that the microbes in the mulch don't get the food instead of the tree.
The picture and video above are a before and after of the same plant. The video is in March when we fed it and the picture below it is the plant thriving in July, just a few months later.
Not only do we sell this fertilizer, we feed everything at the nursery with it. The reason our plants look so good is because we are constantly making sure they have food. If one plant is missed when the others are fed, within weeks in will be obvious that the plant looks a lot worse than the rest. The mint above was repotted and cut down. Now that we've fed it, it will be so happy and come back better than ever.