Besides the frustration of sustaining plant life only to have pests consume it, finding an appropriate pesticide that doesn't involve harmful chemicals is another challenge. Yet, some experts suggest ...

So before you ditch any household items, you might want to try one of these easy ways to make homemade fertilizer, and help your plants flourish. Just avoid these 7 composting mistakes. 1.

Some gardeners recommend using fish emulsion as a foliar spray or as a pre-planting soak for seeds to improve germination ...

We have spent 20 years improving our vegetable garden soil by adding composted horse and chicken manure at the end of each ...

Free, Homemade Liquid Fertilizer Make these easy liquid fertilizers from grass clippings, manure and urine — then sit back and watch your seedlings and plants thrive!

For years, gardeners and farmers have relied on one of the world's most abundant resources to make fertilizer: animal poop. Animal manure is generally free and easy to obtain, either from your own ...

The fermented fertilizer works especially well for tomatoes and potatoes. For a very quick and not so offensive fertilizer, you can make up small batches of fresh comfrey fertilizer in your kitchen.

Make Fertilizer Decisions With Confidence and Insight Prioritize soil testing, and check out a new dashboard that tracks fertilizer production, imports, prices and transportation factors. Farm ...

Applying fertilizer in the middle of the day when the sun is most intense can cause foliar fertilizers to burn leaves and ...

The authors conducted a life-cycle analysis and found that air-stripping ammonia from wastewater treatment plants to make nitrogen-rich fertilizer produces six times fewer GHG emissions than the ...