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Fertilizing the Garden with the 4R’s of Nutrient Management

Spotlights

We often forget about fertilizing and wonder why we didn’t get as much produce as expected. Over-applying fertilizer can cause as much heartache as under-applying. To be sure you’re applying the right amount, follow label directions and use the 4R’s of nutrient stewardship.

June 22, 2016 Read more

July Garden Update

Gardens

It’s mid-July, how is your garden looking? Healthy, buggy, brown, yellow, weedy: these words describe different areas of my garden all while I am waiting, oh so patiently, for the tomatoes to turn red. While I wait, there are other veggies ready to be harvested!

July 22, 2015 Read more

Nutrients in the Garden 20: Pumpkins & Peanuts

Gardens

We did it! For the first time ever, we grew pumpkins and peanuts! Adding new crops to the garden keeps our fingernails dirty and our interested peaked.

October 6, 2014 1 Comment Read more

Nutrients in the Garden 20: End of the Season

Gardens

Here we are at the end of another garden season. The hail set me back, for some of you it was grasshoppers, deer or disease. As I harvest the last of the summer veggies, I am taking notes on what grew well and what didn't.

September 11, 2014 Read more

Contest: Racing to Feed the World through Soil Science

Contests

Attention High School Science Teachers: Start Your Engines! Nutrients for Life Foundation has partnered with BRANDT Consolidated - a leading agricultural company that serves growers around the globe –to organize a “Racing to Feed the World” contest for high school students.

August 5, 2014 Read more

10 Reasons to Visit Your Farmers Market

Gardens

While I wait for my garden to mature, I support my local farmers market and road side stands. I have always been grateful for farmers markets. They have given me fresh produce when I didn’t have the time and space to plant my own garden. During my youth, the farmers market was a source of income (and entertainment) for my family.

July 18, 2014 Read more

Nutrients in the Garden 18: Oh Hail

Gardens

Oh Hail! I watched the dark clouds roll in as I weeded the garden. I thought I would weed until it started raining, however, when the lightning started I headed to the house. Within twenty minutes, the garden was gone. Hail and high winds shredded my tender plants as I helplessly watched from the window.

June 25, 2014 Read more

Nutrients in the Garden 17: Side Dressing with Commercial Fertilizer

Gardens

With the weeds under control (for today) I had time to fertilize. The sweet corn is about twelve inches tall, a good indicator that it’s time to fertilize. Sweet corn needs more nitrogen than a lot of other garden vegetables.

June 12, 2014 Read more

Nutrients in the Garden 15: Thinning Small Seeded Vegetables

Gardens

If plants are overcrowded, they fight for nutrients and water producing a smaller weaker plant. With a small amount of space to garden we need to use water, soil and nutrients as efficiently as possible.

May 24, 2014 Read more

Nutrients in the Garden 13: 5 Steps To Directly Sow Seeds

Gardens

Between soccer games, track practice, birthday parties, and life we finally started planting the garden. The girls were as excited as I was to be digging and planting. We had limited time before the sun set, so I handed the camera to twelve year old and started sowing.

May 9, 2014 Read more

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