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 ...

Your lawn and garden need nutrients to grow and stay healthy. Soil is an important source of key nutrients but it doesn’t always contain them in adequate amounts. That’s why many homeowners take the ...

Peace lilies can be a great houseplant to grow indoors since they require less light than most house plants and need watering only once a week. That makes growing them difficult to mess up. However, ...

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 ...

There are 17 nutrients that are essential for plants to grow and thrive. They are grouped into macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients. Macro-nutrients are those nutrients that plants use in larger ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Beans and a few other plants add nitrogen to garden soil, but most extract this nutrient, as well as phosphorous and potassium, because these ...

In this week’s Boots In The Field podcast, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie addresses a 4R-type question regarding strip-till fertilizer placement. The grower says he currently is ...

Fruit tree fertilizer isn’t one-size-fits-all—especially if you want a harvest worth bragging about. Before you feed your trees, it’s important to understand what your soil needs, what your tree is ...