Thread: Fertiliser Application

Originally Posted by Maca49

And about 50% will work, the rest will lockup in the soil as it combines with other elements, so Im told?

Depends what you're applying, If you apply nitrogen onto wet soil a large chunk of it disappears into the atmosphere.

Phosphate will lockup but will eventually be available, unless you're a typical farmer and only use super-phosphate.

Most nutrients get bound to clay particles but unless they leach out the tend to just stay there, only time they actually lockup is with extreme pH when forms of rust make them unavailable