Fertilizers for odd situation

[PureHarvest]

korney, my bad. Very poorly worded, and that is an understatement.

A gallon of 5-1-1 fish concentrate would have .4 lbs of N in it.
So you would have to dilute and dispense that whole gallon to get the .4 lbs of N
So, you would need 5.75 gallons of fish concentrate over the course of a season to get the needed 2.3 lbs of total N for a 1,000 sqft garden. That is not cheap!
Granular fish would blow that away I would assume without checking prices.

[PureHarvest]

Cost of N per lb of actual N in the product:

FERT TYPE
10-10-10 $2.70
10-20-10 $4.80
13-13-13 $3.53
15-8-12 $2.20
19-19-19 $2.25
23-12-18 $1.78
Urea 46-0-0 $1.00
Calcium Nitrate 15.5-0-0 $3.74
Corn Gluten Meal 9-0-0 $10.50
Alfalfa Meal 3-2-2 $15.60
Agway OG Lawn 5-0-3 $15.00
Feather Meal 12% N $7.50
Espoma Plant Tone 5-3-3 $15.50
Milorganite 5-2-0 $7.22
Chickity DooDoo 5-3-2 $10.50
Alaska Fish Liquid 5-1-1 $33.75

[Worth1]

All of the stuff on the list that is organic certified or not is artificially over priced.
It really is a shame.
In reality it is all organic.
I really do wish the organic and save the planet trend trend would have taken off with more common sense and less misinformation.
One good example is use of energy in an automobiles.
Why do people think the smaller cars cant get as good of gas mileage on the highway as you would think they could.
Most people dont even know it for one and many have forgot.
It is simple the lighter the car the more energy it takes to maintain momentum.
It make take less energy to take off but it looses all advantage once it has gotten up to speed.
Worth

[korney19]

Originally Posted by PureHarvest

Cost of N per lb of actual N in the product:

FERT TYPE
10-10-10 $2.70
10-20-10 $4.80
13-13-13 $3.53
15-8-12 $2.20
19-19-19 $2.25
23-12-18 $1.78
Urea 46-0-0 $1.00
Calcium Nitrate 15.5-0-0 $3.74
Corn Gluten Meal 9-0-0 $10.50
Alfalfa Meal 3-2-2 $15.60
Agway OG Lawn 5-0-3 $15.00
Feather Meal 12% N $7.50
Espoma Plant Tone 5-3-3 $15.50
Milorganite 5-2-0 $7.22
Chickity DooDoo 5-3-2 $10.50
Alaska Fish Liquid 5-1-1 $33.75

I did not calculate price per pound but the Peters Pro 9-45-15 was around $45-$48 for a 25lb bag...

[Worth1]

Around $1.80 a pound.
The fertilizer thing is crazy name brands are over the top and feed store stuff depending on where you go can be way less.
I was getting 16-16-16 in 50 pound bags for around $10.00 to $15.00 at one time when the big box store had big name brand stuff for 3 times or more as much.
This type of fertilizer is also very dependent on the price of oil.

[PureHarvest]

Worth, that Peters is about $20 per pound:

.09x25lb bag is 2.25 lbs of N per bag.

$45/2.25lbs =$20/lb

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by PureHarvest

Worth, that Peters is about $20 per pound:

.09x25lb bag is 2.25 lbs of N per bag.

$45/2.25lbs =$20/lb

Yeah I dont know what I was thinking.
I forgot it was the price of the nitrogen alone.

Worth