By Pete on November 25, 2011
Fertilizer application rates and timing depend on what you’re growing and how fertile your soil is. Test your soil to determine its fertility. In the fall, take several cups of soil from different parts of your garden, and mix them in a bucket.
Take your samples from 2 to 5 inches below the surface, as surface [...]
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By Pete on July 19, 2010
Every time you pick a cucumber, you remove nutrients that came from the soil. Unless you use fertilizers to replace those nutrients, your soil will gradually become depleted and your garden less productive.
All materials that supply nutrients to growing plants are fertilizers, though they may differ in the amounts of nutrients they carry. Fertilizers are [...]
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