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 ...

I spoke with gardening experts to find the best fertilizers to use for vegetable gardens, lawn maintenance, flower beds and more. The right fertilizer can change how your plants grow, for the better.

There are slow-release vegetable garden fertilizer blends available. Your first decision in selecting one will be whether to use a chemically processed product or a natural-source product.

How Often to Fertilize Your Vegetable Garden How often a veggie garden needs fertilizer depends on what you're growing in the garden and your geographic location. Some areas—and hotter summers ...

Because soil microorganisms need time, warmth and moisture to release nutrients from organic fertilizers, plants may have to wait to eat in dry soil. Of course, plants grow but little in dry soil ...

If you skip that step, you can still have a productive vegetable garden by fertilizing during the prime growing season. Keep in mind not all vegetables have the same fertilizer needs.

Organic fertilizers are all the rage these days, and with good reason. ... For instance, the other day a gardening expert on the radio was touting the benefits of guano, ...

By George Weigel/The Patriot-News Q: I have my lawn fertilized professionally, and I was wondering if it affects or contaminates the vegetables in my nearby garden. Please advise. A: If it's just ...

The ideal advice is to use only the exact fertilizer that your particular soil requires. So doing a soil test of your fruit-tree bed would be a good idea to tailor the product to your exact needs.