fertilizing landsacpe shrubs, trees, perennials

[schreibdave]

We had a bunch of new landscape beds planted last fall and I am wondering what I should be doing in terms of fertilizer. I am hoping that I can use one all purpose (preferably organic) fertilizer for all of them. Here's a list of what I have: hydrangea, roses, black eyed susans, day lillys, junipers, boxwood, birds nest spruce, mop cypress, russian cypress, ornamental grasses, japanese maple, crabapple, river birch, service berry.

I am hoping that someting like milorganite or ringers would be a good all purpose feeding for all of these, because I use that stuff on my lawn too. If so, how do I apply it, how often and at what rate? Thanks

[simpson]

Everytime you put out milorganite or the other just hit the beds as well. Once a month should be good. Milorganite has a bag rate for trees and shrubs if you want to get tech.

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[MorpheusPA]

+1 Simpson. I'm never that exact, I just throw the stuff on them when I feed the lawn. I use lawn rate for anything I'm happy with, two to four times that for anything I want to grow some more.

Soy, alfalfa, Milorganite, Ringers, it's all great.

[schreibdave]

+1 Simpson. I'm never that exact, I just throw the stuff on them when I feed the lawn. I use lawn rate for anything I'm happy with, two to four times that for anything I want to grow some more.

Soy, alfalfa, Milorganite, Ringers, it's all great.

Do you work it under the mulch or let it sit on top?

[MorpheusPA]

Just on top of the mulch and let it work in by itself. I won't disturb a soil (or mulch layer) unless I have a really good reason to do so.

[simpson]

I like to do a heavy app before I put down mulch. After that its all on top. Milorganite blends right in.

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