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It seems like promise. In early spring, you see a hint of green. You picture yourself kicking at the soil across the pasture and then, … Read more

Around planting time, a certain type of quiet panic settles in. You realize that your guess about how much nitrogen to apply is foundation of … Read more

The weather app won’t tell you much, so there you are standing in the field with a spreader loaded with white granules, hoping for rain … Read more

Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in a few clicks of your mental calculator. You look out at field ready for spraying with your … Read more

Applying lime isn’t a quick fix. It’s a slow chemical process. Lime need to be applied precisely (at the right rate) and reacts slowly in … Read more

Nitrogen: Nitrogen fertilizer come as a liquid (UAN solution) or as a dry form, such as urea or ammonium sulfate. Solid forms is typically more … Read more

You walk down the fertilizer aisle in a hardware store and are confused by all those bags. Each one displays three numbers on the front … Read more

It all sounds good on paper: balanced fertilizer. Everything’s in nice clean even numbers, and it’s got an even amount of each: an N-P-K formula. … Read more

Holding a bag of 12-12-12 (a mix that treats nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium equally) in one hand, you face a bed in the garden. Rarely … Read more

For example, a favorite, go-to blend is 17-17-17. Why? It isn’t too strong, so you won’t risk burning delicate root systems, and it isn’t to … Read more

Before you put down some fertilizer on your soil, you’d better get to know a little bit about how fertilizer work. Because fertilizer isn’t just … Read more