Soil test recommendations that sound way too high to be right
Massive fertilizer or lime application rates on large properties often spark intense doubt from family and landscapers who insist the numbers are dangerously wrong. This constant second-guessing leaves homeowners trapped between following their soil test or ignoring it entirely because the quantities seem impossible to apply safely.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1getting quotes from landscapers
- 2Applying multi-nutrient fertilizers such as Lesco 24-0-11 plus sulfur
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
r/lawncare2 people · September 2026
“Looking for some advice on correcting my sulfur and magnesium deficiency, if it’s even worth correcting at all.”source ↗
Illustrious-Ad5259 · r/lawncare · 1 upvotes
Where this came up
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