If you like to keep things as organic as possible in the garden, making your own fertilizer is an excellent ecological choice, and you’ll save yourself a few dollars in the process. Gardening experts ...

There’s no doubt farmers are hunting to cut costs in 2025 — and one of the targets to trim is fertility. “If your fertility is in good shape, there’s probably room to pull back a little bit,” says Ken ...

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After the extremely warm December, the extremely cold January came as a shock to our plants. Such weather events can be deadly, but it may take time to sort out the living from the dead. As a rule of ...

Comfrey, until fairly recently, was used for centuries as a medicinal herb. Some of the common folk names for it, such as “healing herb” and “bruisewort,” reflect the healing properties that people ...

Boost your tomato harvest with this powerful homemade fertilizer! Watch your plants thrive and produce an abundance of juicy, ...

Researchers have found a new way to use human urine to make fertilizer for agricultural crops. Their discovery is significant because it can better utilize wastewater in cities and on farms without ...

It’s only been since 1988 that the International Plant Nutrition Institute has credited the 4R framework—application of the right nutrient source or product at the right rate, right time and in the ...

Today, nitrogen fertilizer is made in fossil fuel-fired factories that can be thousands of miles from the nearest farms, but one California company is working on a game-changer. It produces fertilizer ...

Most people don’t give fertilizer a second thought—except maybe when driving through a particularly fragrant agricultural area. But with prices for some synthetic nutrients at their highest levels ...

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