Organic fertilizers are gentle-acting carbon- and microbe-containing materials from plant and animal residues. Examples include blood, bone, compost, manures, seaweed, sugars, grains, meals and worm ...

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 ...

Farmers are coping with a fertilizer crisis brought on by soaring fossil fuel prices and industry consolidation. The price of synthetic fertilizer has more than doubled since 2021, causing great ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Farmers are coping with a fertilizer crisis brought on by soaring fossil fuel prices and ...

For plants to thrive, they require a magic formula: water plus sunlight plus air plus fertilizer. Many green thumbs forget the last part of that equation. But fertilizers—substances that make soil ...