Things You'll Need:
- Printer
- Calendar
- Palm-specific fertilizer
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Step 1
Purchase a palm-specific fertilizer. Ensure the nutrients include: nitrogen (10% to 20%), phosphorous (5% to 10%), potassium (10% to 20%), magnesium (2% to 5%), and (.5%) of manganese and iron. Make sure this fertilizer contains sulfur and trace amounts of zinc and copper. Nitrogen and potassium should be in equal percentages and in a slow-release form.
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Step 2
Purchase a calendar from a card store or office supply store. You can use this to hang in your garage or laundry area to use to mark with your fertilizing due dates. You can also do an Internet search for free calendars to print out at home if you want to save money.
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Step 3
Mark on the first day of July in your calendar that your palms should be fertilized. Do not put the fertilizer at the base of the trunk. Leave a few inches clean around the base to prevent rot around the base of your palm.
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Step 4
Mark on the first day of January in your calendar that your palms are to be fertilized again. Repeat the fertilizing method again.
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Step 5
Mark on the first day of March in your calendar that your palms need to be fertilized again.
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Step 6
Check your palms for any disease they may get from nutrient deficiencies. You can spot these deficiencies from yellow leaves, frizzled palm fronds or black spots. When you get any of these symptoms on your palm, take a picture and show it to your local specialty landscape supply company. You can also find people on the Internet that like helping amateurs.
