Organic gardening emphasizes cultivating your garden so that it sustains enriching soil, plants, and beneficial insects. This is achieved by avoiding the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and using products that nurture your garden soil and the organisms in it. When you embrace the organic gardening philosophy, your plants Read more…
It is currently believed that two in five of the World’s plant species are at risk of extinction, while just three crops – maize, rice, and wheat, are responsible for 50%of the World’s global food intake. The global agricultural industry is alert to the challenges of feeding a growing population Read more…
What is controlled-release fertilizer? Controlled-release fertilizers (CRFs) are granular fertilizer particles that are coated with a polymer or resin that restricts the amount of moisture contact and functions to dissolve the fertilizer particles to gradually release fertilizer over time. The thickness of the coating and air temperature dictate the release Read more…
Standing in the fertilizer aisle of a garden or farm store, you are faced with a dizzying array of fertilizer options, many with a series of three numbers like 10-10-10, 20-20-20, 10-8-10 or many other combinations of numbers. You may be asking yourself, “What do the numbers on fertilizer mean?”. Read more…