Soil & Fertilizers

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• Soils and Fertilizers — the Basics

More articles about soils and fertilizers:

• Secrets to Great Soil — How Fungus Turned my Thumb Green by Kathy LaLiberte, founding gardener at Gardeners Supply Company
• No-Till Gardening by Jeff Gillman, Department of Horticulture, University of Minnesota. This is one of gardening’s hottest topics, so listen up.
• Peat-Free Potting Soil by Andrew Bunting, Curator, The Scott Arboretum. Use of peat — a nonrenewable resource — is another hot topic.
• Should we amend the soil when we plant trees? Don Engebretson, the Renegade Gardener, answers that one. Even experts in academic disagree over the advisability of this practice.
• Foliar Spray v. Slow-Release Fertiliser by Stuart Robinson in Australia.