Off-Season: Interest in Really Learning to Read Labels Well?

[andy10917]

Now it quiets down, and it's an opportunity to deep-dive a few topics with the hardcore members that hang around for the Winter season.

(Sssssshhhhhhh - keep it just amongst us)

I'm interested in discussing and hopefully sharing experiences/learnings with the hardcore crew as time allows.

Is anyone interested in really learning what a product is all about by digging into the label and collateral materials?

If enough members say "Yes", then we have our first topic for the winter season...

[Green]

Yes, because after trying to figure out one product's exact contents by doing all sorts of arithmetic and the numbers never coming out the way were supposed to, I'm a bit frustrated when it comes to ambiguous or missing info on labels.

[andy10917]

We'll get to that if you'd like, after some practice to get less-experienced members up to speed.

PS: I'm going to ask experienced members to hold off on quickly responding to posts once we get going - there is lots to be learned by making a mistake and helping less-experienced members to see and avoid their mistakes...

[rucraz2]

Im in.

[bpgreen]

I'm trying to get to a native lawn, and don't really add much of anything.

But I'm intellectually curios, so count me in.

[PSU4ME]

I wouldn’t mind being part of it. Need to learn somehow!

[Ruxie88]

I'm in. Thanks.

[KBGkicksazz]

More interesting to me would be weed ID

I got a cool poster that has some common ones on there I’m definitely way better than a novice but I can still get stumped. Because of mowing heights you don’t always get a flowering level which makes it much harder to ID

[agn015]

Sign me up!

[Dargin]

Very interested.

[Liquid3d]

I am interested in this also.

[andy10917]

OK, we'll crank this one up.

[Pway]

I am interested too. Many thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.

[Riverpilot]

I'd take a look.

[Sensi]

Great Topic. Lime product labels are the most confusing for me and I hope their discussion is inconcluded.
Here are two examples:
This one is a little less confusing:
http://www.kellysolutions.com/erenewals ... _45_PM.pdf
But this next one is really confusing to me. How can total calcium and magnesium carbonates or oxides total less than 100% of the total carbonates or oxides in the bag? What makes up the missing percentage?
Figure !, 2, and 3:
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-9

[Sensi]

What I want to know is, how much of the lime in the bag is in the form of oxide and how much is carbonate? How do you calculate that?

[SalemChiro]

I'm in!

[Green]

Just looking at the Screamin' Green 16-2-3 label and trying to figure out how much biosolid is in it (assuming it was OceanGro, as rumor has it) had my head spinning after an hour of guess-and-check arithmetic that never came out right. I finally settled on a guesstimate of about 1/2 bag, but never found a way to verify it. In hindsight, I probably should have just contacted the company and asked them! But it's math like that I've been getting tripped up on lately.

[Wors]

I am interested too.

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