Store-Bought vs Homemade Fertilizer Orchids are more sensitive to being over-fertilized than other plants, which can cause damage and interfere with getting an orchid to bloom .

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 ...

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!

Making a homemade plant fertilizer for any rose variety in your backyard is a simple process. Here are four methods as ...

Whether you have a sprawling backyard or balcony garden, plants can make a beautiful addition to our homes. Besides the upkeep of watering and feeding your precious plants or homegrown veggies, they ...

Make your own natural fertilizer using comfrey leaves. This herbal based plant food rivals the popular blue commercially made soluble fertilizers.

It is time for another installment of “What’s under my sink, and can I use it in the garden?“ Today comes a home remedy that originates back to the 19th Century. In 1871, gardener Anne Hale ...

The best time to fertilize trees and shrubs is September 15 to October 15 according to Somalski. He says we can still fertilize these woody ornamentals between October 15 and November 15.

Somalski says all woody plants, as in trees, shrubs and evergreens, would enjoy a fertilizer with a ratio of 3 or 4 to 1 to 2. The three numbers represent the percentage of nitrogen, phosphorus ...