Fertilizing

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Compost: Fresh Soil Every Year

How to create and maintain a compost pile with pre-made or self-made bins.

David's Helpful Hints: Perking Up the Mid-Summer Garden

It’s that time of year – everything’s blooming and the greenery couldn’t be better. Still, a few more things can be done to perk up the mid-summer garden…

Deciphering NPK on Fertilizer Products

Gardeners everywhere are starting to plant, starting to fertilize. But help! When it comes to fertilizer, what do you use?

Fertilize Now: Fall is the Perfect Time

Rumor has it we’re in for a hard winter. So now’s the time to help your plants make it through. Give them a shot of fertilizer and they’ll be happy for months…

Fertilizing for Winter

As winter arrives, plants need to concentrate on root growth. They need fertilizers with higher concentrations of potassium and phosphorous.

Fertilizing in the Fall

Plant needs are different now than in the spring and summer. In the fall, with all their energy going to the roots, plants don’t want food that stimulates the upper growth.

Improving the Soil

Tips to help build youe soil to a quality your plants will thrive in.

Put the Chemicals Away

Organic fertilization Vs chemical fertilization.

Using Liquid Fertilizers

Using liquid fertilization in your garden.

Why Use Organic Fertilizers?

The addition of organic matter is essential to maintaining the living organisms in the soil, which in turn produce the nutrients absorbed by plants, as well as maintaining and improving the structure of the soil itself.