Spoon feeding your lawn is the act of fertilizing your turf more frequently with smaller amounts of nitrogen per 1,000 square feet. Generally, a standard application, or full bag rate, of fertilization can be upwards of one pound (1 lb.) of Nitrogen per 1,000 square feet. Spoon feeding is applying half or less than half of the typical rates. Somewhere between 0.1 - 0.5 lbs. of N per 1,000 square feet, applied weekly or biweekly can be considered as spoon-feeding. See below for some examples.