Corn Gluten Organic Fertilizer 8-0-0 - 50 lbs

Corn Gluten contains 100% corn gluten, a naturally occurring substance, which inhibits the growth of a seed's tiny feeder roots. This causes the seedlings to die before they germinate. Since most weeds germinate through seeds, Corn Gluten will kill the seeds before they sprout. The granulated form makes it easy to spread by hand or by spreader.

Features & Benefits

• Can be used for fertilization and weed control
• Safe, non-toxic, non-GMO, certified organic
• Feeds Lawns Naturally
• Helps Build Strong Turf
• Granulated form
• Can be applied using a spreader

Corn Gluten as Fertilizer

As a plant food, corn gluten has a N-P-K ratio of 8-0-0. It will fertilize your lawn, and prevent the growth of new weeds. Because it prevents seeds from sprouting, make sure you wait 60 days after application before spreading grass seed. Corn Gluten can also be used to fertilize shrubs and transplants. As a fertilizer, corn gluten can be applied at any time of year.

To Prevent Weed Growth:

As a weed suppressant, corn gluten acts as a natural "pre-emergent" - it inhibits seed germination by drying out a seed as soon as it cracks open to sprout. These qualities make corn gluten an ideal 'weed n feed' product.

To take advantage of its weed-prevention properties, it must be applied before the weed seeds start to sprout. Apply in early Spring, 3 to 5 weeks before the weeds begin to sprout, about the time the crocus and daffodils are blooming. Apply again to lawns in the fall. Corn gluten is also useful when transplanting vegetables and shrubs; apply immediately after transplanting to prevent weeds from sprouting through the enriched transplant soil and competing with your transplant.

Corn Gluten controls these common Broadleaf weeds:

• Dandelions
• Barnyardgrass
• Curly Dock
• Green Foxtail
• Black Nightshade
• Orchardgrass
• Shattercrane
• Purslane
• Wooly Cupgrass
• Giant Foxtail
• Lambs Quarters
• Buckhorn Plantain
• Quackgrass
• Velvetleaf
• Annual Bluegrass
• Creeping Bentgrass
• Black Medic
• Redroot Pigweed
• Catchweed Budstraw
• Clover

Safe for Children and Pets

This organic corn gluten is composed of 100% granulated corn gluten meal with nothing added, so children and pets can play on the lawn immediately after application. When used as directed, corn gluten will not harm beneficial insects, soil organisms, pond or stream life.

Caution

Do not apply to areas when seeding is contemplated within 60 days. Root system from newly germinated seeds tends to wither in the presence of corn gluten meal.

Guaranteed Analysis

Total Nitrogen (N): 8%

Nutrients for this product are derived from Corn Gluten Meal, and contain no animal manure, and does not contain any fillers. 100% active ingredients.

How to Use

Initial treatment: Apply 50 lbs per 2,500 square feet of lawn, garden or flowerbed area each Spring and Fall. Subsequent treatments: Apply 30 lbs per 5,000 square feet.

Corn gluten can be applied by hand or by using a spreader. The spreader setting depends on the brand of spreader, but for a Scott spreader, your setting should be 12 - 13. You can tell pretty easily once you start spreading if the setting is too high or low.

Here are some notes on use from Nick Christians at Iowa State University:

Corn gluten meal works by inhibiting the root formation of germinating plants. It generally does not inhibit the roots of mature plants or transplants until your reach very high rates (80 pounds/1000 ft2 or higher). It should be applied before germination of the weeds. The weed will germinate and usually forms a shoot, but does not form a root. After germination, a short drying period is needed to kill the plants that have germinated but have not formed a root. Timing is critical. If it is too wet during germination, the plants will recover and form a root. (This is also true of chemical preemergence herbicides).

If it does not rain in 5 days of application, water it in with approximately .25 inches of water. Then leave a drying period after germination.

It will usually work for about 5 to 6 weeks following germination.

It does not work well with seeded garden crops unless they are seeded deeply (radishes seem to be the exception and there may be others). Transplants or mature plants generally work well. Some producers put down a band, work it into the upper inch of soil, and then put the transplant in the band.

In garden and crop production, growers generally work out their own system, depending on their understanding of the crop they are growing and the weeds they are trying to control.

The nitrogen will release slowly over a 3 to 4 month period after application.