Hey bob

I don' t know what other folks do, but I can tell you that from my experience of using for quite a while....we prefer to pour it dry, over a fairly solid stump...on it and around it. I use about about (2) 5 gallon bucket fulls at a time. The stump seems to absorb the minerals as well as the surrounding soil. Works very well for us. Theres no need to mix it with water...(especially this year ).