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CLINTON NEWS-RECORD, THURSDAY APRIL 25, 1974-9A
What's in the lawn fertilizer bag?
Aboretum, Kenblue, Park!
There's a nice, modern ring to the
names. Yet these select bluegrasses
trace descent directly to "old-fash-
ioned" lines proven under fire' by
natural selection in the midwestern
United States. They're great for an
unpampered lawn that must mostly
fend for itself. They should be
mowed rather tall—say 2 inches—
and not be made to perform growth
heroics in hot weather.
Aboretum stems from bluegrass
clones that successfully survived
trying conditions on a hot hillside
in Missouri. Aboretum doesn't
look much different from the Ken-
tucky bluegrass that graced grand-
father's side yard. But it has a way
of weathering hard times. At the
Lawn Institute, Aboretum keeps
plodding along year after year,
seemingly unaltered by age. After
18 years with no watering and
little attention, it's as good as ever,
though many adjacent plantings
have faded. '
Kenblue and Park are similar
mass selections froth natural
stands. Like Aboretum they are
genetically diversified, with all the
advantages that mixed heredity
brings, Kenblue represents blood-
lines widespread in the state for
which Kentucky bluegrass was
named, a sort of Kentucky thor-
oughbred. Park is derived by com-
bining a dozen or so especially
vigorous stones picked up in Minne-
sota by University of Minnesota
agronnmists,
Today's commercial fertilizers
for lawn and gardens are sophisti-
cated chemical products; usually
formulated for specific plants and
growing conditions. •
They contain one or more of the
essential plant growth nutrients
that are deficient in most soils.
Plants get 13 of the 16 essential
nutrients, or elements, from the
soil. Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen
come from the water and air.
The three "primary" nutrients,
so-called because they were the
first identified and are needed in
largest amounts, are nitrogen,
phosphorus and potassium (in
fertilizers, phosphate and potash).
Nitrogen from air and hydrogen
from natural gas are combined
by complex chemical operations to
form ammonia; the building block
for nitrogen fertilizers. Nitrogen
provides dark green color in plants
and promotes rapid growth.
Phorphorus stimulates root
formation and vigorous plant
growth and aids toward winter har-
diness. Phosphate fertilizers are
made by treating phosphate rock
from ore deposits with acids to
produce a soluble product usable by
plants.
Potash ore from deposits in the
United States and Canada under-
goes complex refinement for pro-
duction of fertilizers bearing potas-
sium. Potassium imparts vigor and
disease resistance to plants and is
essential for plant sugar, starch
and oils.
The numbers on the bag, or fer-
tilizer analysis, refers to percentage
of each primary nutrient.
For example, 20-10-5 on .a fer-
tilizer bag means that 20% of the
total weight is nitrogen, 10% is
phosphate, ancl 5% is potash.
Fertilizer prices reflect the kinds
and amounts of nutrients in the
Mixture. A mixture listed as 20-10.S
would likely be more expensive than
one listed as 10-6-4 because the
actual nutrient content is higher.
Price can vary according to the
kind of materials making up the
mixture, too. For example, "slow
release" nitrogen materials in lawn
fertilizers are more expensive to
produce, but allow the homeowner
the convenience of less frequent
Lawngrass Nobility
Has New Stamina
nitrogen applications.
The-. question is often asked,
"Why can't fertilizer be manufac-
tured to have a 100% nutrient con-
tent?" Plants cannot use nutrients
in the elemental form, nor can man
handle nutrients in this form, the
Fertilizer Institute notes. As a pure
element, nitrogen is an inert color-
less gas. Phosphorous ignites when
exposed to air and pure potassium
burns in contact with moisture.
Therefore, plant nutrient ele-'
tnents are combined with other
chemical elements such as oxygen,
hydrogen, chlorine and others.
The result is quality manufactured
fertilizers which may be used safely
and easily by home-owners.
The nation's lawn and garden
fertilizer industry takes great care
to provide quality nutrients for
home-owner use, the Fertilizer
Institute says.