Waste products like coffee grounds and eggshells are widely used to improve soil health, but there are some more unconventional fertilizers that could help.

If you fertilize plants in winter when they're not growing, you risk damaging them in five ways. This guide looks at when and when not to fertilize in winter.

All that glitters may not be gold regarding foliar fertilizer. Macronutrients and tissue testing are gospel in many parts of agriculture, but receiving a consistent, positive yield return on ...

Learn how to use rice water to fertilize plants, including three preparation methods and how often to apply it safely.

Store-bought fertilizer is expensive and rife with other chemicals. You can make your own easily. If you like onions on your ...

Many people confuse plant nutrition with plant fertilization. Although it is common for many fertilizers to be called plant food, it is a misnomer. Fertilizers are not plant food. Plant nutrition ...

Good soil, sunshine, water: These are critical ingredients for healthy plants and a beautiful garden. Fertilizer? Not usually, said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist at The Morton Arboretum in ...

Everyone's heard of the birds and the bees. But that old expression leaves out the flowers that are being fertilized. The fertilization process for flowering plants is particularly complex and ...

Aims Nitrogen (N) fertilization is known to modify a plant's susceptibility to necrotrophic diseases. However, the effect of N nutrition on defence is not well known. It was hypothesized that not only ...