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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

Then there’s the soil test. The results are often a mix of numbers for nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium. The suggested remedy are three different products to fix those … Read more

Standing in the garden aisle with a sack of 10-10-10 fertilizer in my hand is a certain type of panic. The promise on label is … Read more

Most folks consider fertilizer an ingredient that you add to garden or fields like you would salt a soup, expecting it to work well. This … Read more

There is a certain sort of worry when you buy fertilizer in tons. You are standing in the supplier’s yard with a clipboard in your … Read more

Nitrogen becomes this magical “on/off” button for most pasture owners. You throw down one broadcast application in the spring and assume you’re covered for the … Read more

At harvest time, I know there’s another type of crop dissapears: seeing stunted corn in the yield monitor when you were counting on big yields. … Read more