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 ...

Using fertilizers in a vegetable garden helps to increase your yield and have strong, healthy plants that have better resistance to pests and diseases. Fertilizers can be organic and inorganic, ...

To help my students get exceptional results from their gardens, I teach them to build soil health with regular additions of ...

Last week I described the basic fertilizers that I use. This week I will add information about when and how often to fertilize different kinds of plants. Lawns: Frequent fertilization is needed to ...

One memorable mistake as a newbie gardener was thinking that if a little fertilizer is good, a lot must be better. That was the year of too much chicken manure in the tomato garden. The plants were ...

The variety of fertilizers can be overwhelming — it seems as though there’s a special formulation for almost every plant on the planet. But fertilizing doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive, ...

If your lawn is dried out or dormant, it is best just to keep it mowed to control the weeds and postpone any fertilization ...

Gardening can be frustrating if you don't have the rich soil your plants need. Here is how to enrich poor soil. More Americans than ever before are gardening. The National Gardening Association ...

A. There are no hard rules. When and how much you'll need to fertilize depends on the soil. Sun and a well-draining, compost-enriched soil may be all salvias need for months of bloom. Some salvias ...

Q. How do I apply fertilizer to a bed of shrubs while there is mulch on the soil? I cannot work the fertilizer into the soil. -H.J., Houston A. You can apply a granular fertilizer on top of the mulch.

If you shop for fertilizer in Connecticut this fall, you will see some labels missing from shelves, more paperwork behind ...