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Read articles →A casual garden update that uses a broadcast spreader behind a compact tractor to side-dress sweet corn with 12-12-12 starter fertilizer. Tim explains basic NPK reasoning, acknowledges a muddy spring planting season, and improvises a makeshift remote shutoff for the spreader with mixed results. Most useful to hobby gardeners curious about fertilizing sweet corn or using lawnmower-style spreader attachments with a subcompact tractor's extended drawbar receiver hitch.
Tractor Time with Tim is a family-run hobby-farming channel where the host shares projects and experiments as a self-described non-expert, so expect candid trial-and-error rather than polished instruction.
Corn needs nitrogen along with phosphorus and potassium to get going and grow well, so even with good soil practices you still need fertilizer to grow good corn.
He uses 12-12-12 starter fertilizer, which is 12 percent nitrogen, 12 percent potassium, and 12 percent phosphorus, applied with a broadcast spreader.
Yes, but short-tongue lawnmower attachments do not work well directly. A heavy hitch 2-inch receiver drawbar extends the hitch point so they can be used properly.
