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Burble Honeoye, NY(Zone 5a) Jun 01, 2009

I have some leftover 29-0-4 lawn fertilizer and would like to use it on flowers and/or veggies.

I realize that it's not the best thing for this, but I'm guessing that it would be better than NO fertilizer.

True? TIA.

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Jun 01, 2009

That's an awful lot of nitrogen, too much nitrogen tends to stimulate lots of green growth often at the expense of blooms--great for grass but not so great for most other things. If you don't want to let it go to waste, you can probably save it and use it again on the lawn next year but I'd get a more balanced fertilizer for your flowers & veggies.

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Burble Honeoye, NY(Zone 5a) Jun 01, 2009

Ok, thanks for your advice!

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flowAjen central, NJ(Zone 6b) Jun 01, 2009

I don't even fertilize my flowers so I'd def save it for the lawn .

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Allison28 Jun 05, 2009

For flowers, you're better off with something like Flowertone (I only use organic), which I think is 3-4-5....MUCH less nitrogen and the flowers will look great.

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