Fertiliser and your garden
1. If there are already nutrients in my soil, why add more?
When you are using fertiliser, you are replacing what is or has been absorbed by plants. Each growing season, plants chomp through all the potassium, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur they need from the soil or compost. At harvest time, these nutrients are removed by you taking all the fruits, flowers, vegetables and even lawn clipping away from the mother plant, leaving a shortage for next season. By adding fertiliser you are completing the ongoing cycle. This recycling of nutrients ensures that plants or subsequent crops get what they need to grow.
2. With Gro-Expert, am I going to use more fertiliser, since my yields will be increasing?
In short, No. At Gro-Expert we have taken a lot of time to ensure you use your Gro-Expert nutrients more efficiently and effectively. Plus, we are adding nutrients that are essential for more yield and products like Aqualatus which maximise nutrient balance and nutrient and water retention enabling your growing media to hold more nutrients around the roots for your plants to use.
3. What happens to all the Gro-Expert fertiliser I am applying as plants grow and when my produce is harvested?
We always recommend to apply Gro-Expert nutrients at the levels required for crop growth so almost all will be used by the growing plants. When you harvest your fruits and veggies, you also remove the nutrients that plants have absorbed from the soil to grow them. Some may be left in the soil however this will be used post-harvest by any plants that will be overwintered or kept safe in the soil for use early next year.
4. The way I am fertilising my plants now is working fine. Why should I change to Gro-Expert?
With Gro-Expert nutritional packages not only do you get packages of nutrients, tailor made for your plants, you also get access to expert advice on feeding your fruits, vegetables and plants from our industry experts.
5. Will I have to buy more Gro-Expert fertiliser?
Adopting the Gro-Expert approach may lead you to buy more fertiliser, possibly reduce your fertiliser use, change the sources you use and/or apply those sources at different rates or at different times and places than you are used to. The main objective is to make more effective use of nutrients in a way that balances the nutritional benefits with an expert approach to give you the best crop possible.
6. Can I save money by reducing the amount of fertiliser?
Adopting the Gro-Expert approach is not about reducing fertiliser use. It’s about ensuring sustainable nutrition practices that help you meet quality and yield goals. Meeting those goals may result in fertiliser rates being lowered or raised depending on factors specific to each customer. In the end, fertiliser rates will only be reduced where is makes sense to do so.