Tag Archive | "Organic Fertilizer"
The Lawn Phosphorus Firestorm: The Flames Are Warming
New Laws Wrongfully Restrict Organic Fertilizers The coming year is shaping up as a major battleground and your lawn may be caught in the crosshairs of a fight that stretches from Maine to Washington state. The issue is phosphorus, denoted by the letter P and the number 15 on the Periodic Table of Elements that hung in [...]
Continue reading...After 80 Years, One Company Just Says No to Chemicals
Friday, October 29, 2010
IF YOU HAVE LIVED anywhere East of the Mississippi in the past half century and you happened to wander into the well-used potting shed of a true, died-in-the-wool gardener, you would almost certainly find a simple, white bag of fertilizer. Maybe it would be half used, slightly soiled. Maybe the top of the [...]
Continue reading...Correct Fertilizer Ratio?
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
I received this question to my personal email today from Barbara Card of Amesbury, Mass., and I think it’s a good one to answer so everyone can see: “I know organic fertilizers are the way to go, and I’m hearing that a lot of landscape companies are using organic fertilizers because they cost less, but I’m [...]
Continue reading...Natural Fertilizer: Part II
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
As promised, here is another excerpt from my book, the Organic Lawn Care Manual (Storey Publishing, 2007). This relates to natural products that can be used as fertilizers: Animal By-Products Call me old-fashioned, but I still take all the manure I can get from the local farmers in my town. I grew up on a dairy farm [...]
Continue reading...Natural Fertilizers: Part I
Monday, July 27, 2009
Wouldn’t it be great if you could feed your lawn and landscape without ever going to the garden center? Nothing against garden centers, mind you. If I have to shop, that’s where I like to go. My point for this post, though, is that you don’t necessarily HAVE to buy bagged products to apply to [...]
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