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Cookies4kids said:I am finding your articles so interesting, Michele. I am thinking that maybe I haven't been using enough Milorganite when I do use it. I am an avid baker, so I need to know how much in terms of cups, lol. If I am planting a new fan or top dressing a larger, well established clump, how much Milorganite should I be using. I am off to buy alfalfa pellets this morning, so do I use those in addition to the Milorganite or alternate their use. We have what I call black sand for soil, so nothing stays very long. Your remark about watering, and watering some more is so true as I learned this year. A grower some place said that if you could choose only one thing, water or fertilizer, you should take water!!!! I thought I was watering enough, but with our wettest ever spring, I have the best flowers I have had yet.
Thanks again for your help.

Here's the conversion chart on the Milorganite site for flowers http://milorganite.com/Gardeni... it tells you in pounds and then at the bottom of chart it says how many cups equal a pound.

Yes you can use then together; I use everything together whether in the hole, tilling in the bed, or top dressing.

We water every day with sprinklers and leave them on for about 30 min per section even if it rains unless it is a long hard rain. We use the misting type sprinkler heads


Not a good photo (taken with phone) but you can see the height of the sprinklers in this photo but it doesn't show a good depiction of the misting. The misters will spray up to 15' depending on how much water pressure there is and how many sprinklers are on the line.