What Is The Best Fertilizer For Your Garden?Plant fertilizer is any substance that is used to feed your plants the nutrients they need for growth. If you understand what plant nutrients are required, you can look for the right nourishment for the plants you want to grow. Most contain fertilizer numbers on the bag or container that will help you calculate how much to apply. Vegetable garden fertilizer comes in many forms, both organic and synthetic. But all must break down into water-soluble chemicals before the plants can take them up. Soil microbes play a crucial role in that breakdown. Organic fertilizers include any substances occurring naturally in your soil, as wells as those you add in natural form or that were naturally processed. Chemical fertilizers are either natural ingredients that have been processed chemically or those that are completely synthetic. 
Your organic choices include both solid and
liquid organic fertilizers
for
foliar feeding
. There are the same choices among synthetics, from powders or pellets to liquids, such as
Miracle Gro
.In addition to nutrient products, soil ph adjusting supplements like garden lime , gypsum and aluminum sulfate can make other nutrients more available to your plants. Uncle Woodruff (right) is our village soil scientist and handles soil tests , fertilizer applications and ph adjustments. If you are an organic gardener, you’ll want to make organic choices. If you have physical limitations, are a container gardener or an indoor gardener there are chemical or synthetic fertilizers that won’t harm the planet or your vegetables. Happy gardening, Geefrank
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