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Fertilizing in Sarasota Responsibly is a practice we all have to educate our selves with.  If you fertilize turf, shrubs, Trees, or Citrus in Sarsota make sure yu are following all county, and state regulation,  Applying fertizizer can be very harmfull to our environment,especially our water ways.  the Nitrogen and phosphates in fertilizer pollutes water ways in Sarasota making the water murky, choking off oxegen that is vital to marine life, and exploding algea growths.  As we should all know Sarasota county passed a new rules on applying fertilizer, from June 1 untill Oct. 1 no granule fertilizer is to be applied to any turf, shrubs or trees, if you applied a good slow release in June and your yard was in good shape at that time,you should be alright, however if you need a boost apply liquid fertilizer such as Miracle grow, this releases no nitrogen into the water ways the very thing we are trying to protect.  Apply often especially to flowers and vegatebles, applyng a little each week is known as micro dosing feeding the plant, tree or turf in small amounts so that they use all of what is applied, plants only each so much and they stop.  If  Applying granule it takes very many veiables such as heat, jmoisture, and the perfect amounts of this to make the fertilizer break down to much it runs off the property, too little and it wont break down, this is why I install ez flow fertigators on all my properties, each time the irrigation system comes on a little fertilizer is applied to plants, trees and turf, making them more healthy each week, with no envirnmental impact other than healthy plants,trees and turf using less water as the foilage gets healthier, we use 63% more water than the same property used before the ez flow is installed, what a savings.  For more information contact your local extension service or visit www.stateoftheartlandscaping.com