Feeding and fertilizer

• Feeding and fertilizer Bone meal, blood meal, kelp and more: what each organic fertilizer does What bone meal, blood meal, feather meal, kelp, alfalfa meal and fish emulsion each supply, how fast they work, and why the label decides.
• Feeding and fertilizer Does fertilizer kill soil microbes? What the research says, both ways Does synthetic fertilizer kill soil life? Extension sources disagree. Here are both sides, plus what everyone agrees on: salt burn, over fertilizing and runoff.
• Feeding and fertilizer Fertilizer burn: how to spot it, and how to flush it out Brown leaf edges, a white crust on the pot or stripes in the lawn after feeding? That is fertilizer burn. Here is why it happens and how to flush the salts out.
• Feeding and fertilizer How to read a fertilizer label: what N-P-K really means The three numbers on a fertilizer bag are percentages by weight of nitrogen, phosphate and potash. Here is what each does, and how to work out how much to use.
• Feeding and fertilizer Manure for the garden: aged vs fresh, and how long to wait before harvest Is fresh manure safe for a vegetable garden? What extension research says about aged vs fresh manure, chicken manure, waiting before harvest, and pet waste.

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