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How to Use Fertilizer to Help Plants Flourish

Give your indoor and outdoor plants a boost of important nutrients to help them grow. Follow our expert tips for the best ...
Have you been struggling to get a nice, lush lawn your neighbors will notice? Never applied fertilizer to your lawn before? It isn’t as hard as you think, and April is the right time to make your ...
We are in the heart of our short Michigan growing season. All things green and growing can use fertilizer now. We have to remember that plants eat too. Right now most plants are as hungry as they will ...
Healthy soil leads to healthy plants! Keeping your vegetable garden supplied with sufficient nutrients will lead to vigorous growth, robust vegetation, and more produce. While fertilizing isn’t always ...
Fertilizer pellets piled inside of a spreader on a lawn. - Ingrid Balabanova/Shutterstock In the effort to create a lush, healthy lawn for the summer, many gardeners can end up killing their grass ...
What Is 10-10-10 Fertilizer? The three numbers on a fertilizer label indicate the amount of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) in the bag. These are the three primary macronutrients ...
Recently the Duval County Health Department issued a health alert for toxic blue-green algae in the St. Johns River. The cause of the bloom has been attributed to excess nutrients in the river, ...
As a young boy in the late 1950s, Frank Glenn knew the soft, freshly-tilled brown dirt lining his family’s fields signaled the start of another planting season. “Back when we were young buckaroos, we ...