Healthy soil leads to healthy plants! Keeping your vegetable garden supplied with sufficient nutrients will lead to vigorous growth, robust vegetation, and more produce. While fertilizing isn’t ...

How Often to Fertilize Your Vegetable Garden How often a veggie garden needs fertilizer depends on what you're growing in the garden and your geographic location. Some areas—and hotter summers ...

Adding organic amendments such as well-aged manure, compost and seaweed to your soil not only improves plant health but also helps it retain water, said Yvonna Savio, creator of the Gardening in L ...

Fertilizers are soil amendments with a guaranteed percentage of the nutrients that plants need: ... you can still have a productive vegetable garden by fertilizing during the prime growing season.

I spoke with gardening experts to find the best fertilizers to use for vegetable gardens, lawn maintenance, flower beds and more.

Last week I described the basic fertilizers that I use. This week I will add information about when and how often to fertilize different kinds of plants.

Ask a Master Gardener: How to fertilize plant that has no soil Air plants don’t need soil to survive, though they do need to be watered regularly. Alexandra Floersch / File / Forum News Service ...

I use lawn fertilizer on trees and shrubs, including fruit trees and berries, usually at the same time. I use a general purpose fertilizer such as 16-16-16 on perennial flowers.