Soil should be alive and it is a fact that chemical fertilizers kill the microbial activity in soil. Do we really need ...

I have been receiving questions about organic fertilizers. One problem is that many organic fertilizers are incomplete. As you know, a complete fertilizer such as 5-10-15 is 5% Nitrogen, 10% ...

In December 2016, the National Organic Program (NOP) issued guidance 5034-1 that can be interpreted as approving of food waste for use in organic crop production (for example, as an input in ...

The environmental and aesthetic virtues of organic agriculture have been overblown. Organic agriculture has been growing rapidly in recent years—by a factor of 10 from 1992 to 2005—but still accounts ...

I thought it was a good idea to make organic gardening easier. A company had packaged tea bags filled with a blend of organic fertilizers. It was to be placed in a deep hole beneath a seedling for a ...

Another growing season is fast approaching, and before you can seed you must feed. Now is the time to decide whether to use organic or synthetic fertilizers to enrich the soil. They produce similar ...

Q: I just received the results of a soil sample that I sent to Penn State. The report suggested that to correct my problem of above-optimum magnesium and calcium and below-optimum potash, I should use ...

Once upon an organic fraud, two grifters sold farmers a $50-million river of fake fertilizer. Fish guts and chicken feathers, juiced with synthetic nitrogen, became the nutrient steroids of the gods.

You've no doubt read about the advantages and near-miraculous properties of organic matter in the soil. Organic soil matter is anything that used to be alive or is currently alive. Organic matter is a ...

Using organic liquid plant feeds is a natural way to deliver a boost of nutrients to specific plants at a particular time. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in ...