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Chicken litter is a black box to you, but there’s more going on than that. It contains nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, salts and bedding material. Pile … Read more

So there you are with the truck three miles out of reach and you look at what’s supposed to be your vegetable garden, all weeds … Read more

Got epsom salts? I bet you do. In a box somewhere in the garage. Cheap, innocuous-looking stuff. Read the Internet: Good for roses! Good for … Read more

A bone meal isn’t a complete fertilizer. It’s mainly phosphorus, and applying too much (more than your soil requires) doesn’t produce larger flowers. Applying too … Read more

Bone meal: Peonies and bigger blooms? Sounds good to me. So you go sprinkling this stuff all over top of the bloom, as if it … Read more

If you’re thinking: Stick some fertilizer in one hole at the base of the trunk, you’re making a common mistake with tree care. But no: … Read more

Is there magic dust called bone meal? No, no, no! It’s a physical form of fertilizer. Applied correctly, it can help. However, if used incorrecty, … Read more

Most gardeners think of bone meal as kind of magic dust. They toss some into the planting hole, set tomato in place, and hope its … Read more

Tomato growers everywhere swear by bone meal, saying things like, “I always put some bone meal in my tomato holes, as tomatoes realy love it.” … Read more

Even if your soil’s not lacking certain nutrients, there’s always room for lime on your lawn applied each spring. What typically goes wrong: how lime … Read more

Most gardeners think bone meal will help things bloom. You buy it; you sprinkle it; you hope. And then nothing much happens. The flowers don’t … Read more