I wish I had a nickel for every time someone came to my yard, admired my plants and then said since I was a "professional" I must be using some secret fertilizer on my plants to make them look so nice. Are they surprised when I explained I buy what is cheapest at the time! K-grow from K-mart for a liquid fertilizer. High in Urea so it takes about two weeks before you see any reaction by the plant. I mention this because their are no "miracle fertilizers". I am not buying tomato grow, rose grow ect for each plant i fertilize. Yes I agree some plants are more heavy nitrogen feeders than others. Sometimes the issue is the fertility of the soil you have. I have used 10-10-10 on my tree fruits with good results. I have used lawn fertilizer (28-0-16) and had good results too, just use at a much lower rate as higher in nitrogen. My soils are fine on phosphorus and we have a phosphorus ban here anyway unless it is a new planting. I did not spring for a soil test but let the trees tell me the problem. I strive for 18"-24" of new growth on young fruit trees. If I don't get it, then next year I fertilize. Too much growth, then cut back or eliminate fertilizing the following year. I fertilize all my young fruit trees with a granular fertilizer just after leaf out by broadcasting it around the drip-line of the tree. My soil must be very low in nitrogen as imust apply a lite application around old established trees too or their foliage turns yellow-green by mid-June. I fertilize the old trees at about half the rate I use on the young ones so I do not promote a lot of growth but have good leaf color. I know this is not scientific but it has worked for me and I am happy with the results. If I was professionally growing fruit for a living, I would gladly pay for a soil test as well worth the cost and not worth the risk of going without it.

Been eating my cooking since Sunday, and I wanted OUT. Roads were clear, but I really had to hold onto the railing and go ever so slowly up and down the icy steps. IHOP for their 2x2x2: pancakes, sausage, eggs over easy Don't have boots and my feet were cold, so I came right back home. Oatmeal and peaches tonite

Hey Jasdip,I would eat that! In fact it would go well with my dinner/supper tonight.We had grilled london broil leftover from last night so I made stew and have a pan of cornbread in the oven.Smells so good.It's getting colder so I thought it was a good night for stew.Had to send DD to dollar tree for some more bowls.We only have 2 big enough for stew.LOL

Gonna be IMPOSSIBLE to move around in my area, tomorrow, so I drove to a family cafeteria down the road and had fried chicken breast, green beans and squash casserole. Wasn't really hungry so I guess I only ate half of it.