Liquid fertilizer, also known as 'compost tea', is a natural, organic alternative to store-bought products that can be expensive and contain ingredients you may prefer not to use in your garden.

Hands peeling cucumbers with a knife. Peels in background on a cutting board - Halfpoint/Shutterstock If you are peeling cucumbers for a snack, don't toss those scraps just yet. Cucumber peels can be ...

If your garden supplies much of your family's yearly food intake, you'll want to do all you can to maximize your vegetables' nutritional quality. The following potent, correctly balanced fertilizing ...

Higher plant diversity in agricultural grasslands increases yields with lower inputs of nitrogen fertilizer. That is the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. Dry mixtures of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and complete 10-6-4 fertilizer were applied to established weedy turf on November 6, ...

THOMPSON, N.D. -- Nelson Farms, near Thompson, N.D., is a third-generation farm started by Herbert Nelson in the 1940s. Fertilizer has been used to feed the farm's crops for a number of years. Nelson ...

NEW YORK — The diesel fuel came from a Yonkers, N.Y., gas station. The 10-pound bags of plant fertilizer were purchased from a hardware store on Canal Street in New York. Mixed together, these ...

Plants absorb not only nutrients but also toxic metals such as cadmium through their roots. It was previously unclear whether ...

If you are peeling cucumbers for a snack, don't toss those scraps just yet. Cucumber peels can be turned into an easy, homemade fertilizer that gives your plants a quick nutrient boost while also ...