Before making a purchase of the nutrient solution formulation, obtain the elemental content concentration for all the contained elements in the p
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It’s the early 1950’s and we are in the greenhouse laboratories of Michigan State University’s Department of Horticulture. Enter Dr. H.B. Tuckey, hea
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It doesn’t matter if you’re a gardening novice trying to supplement your dinner table with some home-grown veggies or an entrepreneur that earns
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Phosphorus (P) is an essential major plant nutrient element, although among the other major elements, nitrogen (N), potassium (K), calcium (Ca),
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In a perfect world, your garden's soil would provide all the nutrients plants need. But in the real world, garden, and lawn soil -- and thus the
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Amending soil and mulching are two different practices, but they relate to one another closely and an understanding of both is necessary for prop
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If you have been growing hydroponically for a while, you may have heard of some hobbyists adding molasses to their nutrient solution, or you may
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Composting is one of many organic gardening tasks that have become unnecessarily complicated. Composting is the cycle of plant life that Mother N
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It is the rare gardener indeed who moves into a house with great soil. In fact, many gardeners believe that it takes up to seven years to “amend’ mos
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A common error when buying a chemical fertilizer is failure to read the label, not just what are the “fertilizer” elements (NPK) given on the fro
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