Walk into any garden center, and you will see bags of fertilizers labeled "organic," "natural," or "eco-friendly." The packaging often features lush vegetables, bright flowers, and earthy tones ...

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 ...

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.

Giving houseplants too much fertilizer can be worse than not fertilizing at all.

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 ...