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 ...

Applying fertilizer in the middle of the day when the sun is most intense can cause foliar fertilizers to burn leaves and ...

Thankfully, choosing this time is easy when it comes to many plants. "The best time to fertilize is in late winter or early ...

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.

Blossom and fruit drop and fruit splitting are fairly common problems for fruit trees. While losing blossoms and small fruit ...

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.

We have spent 20 years improving our vegetable garden soil by adding composted horse and chicken manure at the end of each ...