Fertilisers and nutrients
Practical information and material on fertilisers and nutrients.

• Using a rotary spreader to apply fertilisers in turf horticulture
• Using a boom spray to apply fertilisers in turf horticulture
• Using fertigation to apply fertilisers in turf horticulture
• Basic types of fertilisers used in turf horticulture
• Percent of nutrients in common fertilisers
• Tissue nutrient sufficiency levels
• pH neutralising table
• Salt index
• Environmentally friendly fertilising in turf horticulture
• Example of soil analysis results
• Example of tissue test results (level of nutrients in plant tissue)
• Example of pH levels in soil results
• Soil pH and nutrient availability
• Activity for calculating fertiliser usage for a rotary spreader
• Activity for calculating fertiliser usage for a boom spreader
• How fertilisers give nature a helping hand
• Types of fertilisers and when they should be used
• Applying fertilisers
• Rotary spreader calibration
• Fertigation equipment calibration
• Sampling protocols
• Representative sampling
• Core sampling
• Soil sampling
• Water sampling
• Tissue sampling
• Calculating area
• Calculating volumes