Loam: Soil Test & Fertilizer

A soil test report states its recommendation in pounds of nitrogen, phosphate and potash per 1,000 square feet. The bag in your shed says 10-10-10. Loam closes that gap. THE GAP IS BIGGER THAN IT LOOKS Take a recommendation of 50 pounds of nitrogen per acre. From ammonium sulfate at 21% nitrogen that is 5.48 pounds of product. From urea at 46% it is 2.5 pounds. Same recommendation, same ground, and the second bag needs less than half the weight of the first. Get that backwards and you have either wasted a season or burned the bed. The arithmetic is not hard, but it is three divisions on a windy afternoon with a bag in one hand, and it is the step where the report stops being useful to most people. BAG RATE - FREE, FOREVER Enter the three numbers from your report, the three numbers on the bag, and the size of the bed. Loam gives you pounds and ounces of that specific product. Then it…