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 ...

Warm climates need fertilizer every one to two weeks; cooler zones may only need it once per season. Start with nitrogen-rich fertilizer at transplanting, then switch to phosphorus-rich for better ...

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, ...

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, ...

Garden plants have depleted many of the soil nutrients by the end of summer, so we need to replenish them for our next plantings. Chemical fertilizers have environmental concerns so we usually use ...

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 ...

Q: A friend gave me a bunch of air plants for my birthday a few years ago. I’m kind of pleased with myself that they’re still alive. I water them by dunking them in lukewarm water. Should I also be ...

Consider adding some compost to your vegetable garden. It offers needed nutrients as well as organic material for soil. Big Stock For bigger harvests this summer, put your veggie garden on a regular ...

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 ...

My buddy John, who is the Rabun County Extension agent, came to Augusta a couple of weeks ago to teach the vegetable gardening portion of our Master Gardener training program. And like most subjects ...