We recently used fertilizer spikes to perform fall fertilization for our fruit trees and two-year old evergreen trees. Fertilizer spikes are certainly convenient, but are they the best method of ...

Broadcasting is spreading dry fertilizers uniformly over an unplanted area, such as a garden before tilling the soil, a lawn, strawberry rows or beds or asparagus patch. Broadcast when leaves are dry ...

Many gardeners and homeowners have completed their fall gardening and home landscape maintenance tasks for the season once the final leaves are removed from the lawn sometime in November, but they may ...

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 always ...

White, powdery granular fertilizer is being dumped into a hole dug out around someone's garden. - Dargog/Shutterstock Growing plants involves a lot more than supplying the right amount of water and ...

Strategic fertilizer management is an important component of integrated weed management systems. A field study was conducted to determine the effect of various application methods of phosphorus (P) ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Using more than the recommended amount of nitrogen-based fertilizers on a corn field is a waste of money and could pose environmental risks, two Purdue Extension agronomists say ...