Nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus… what do they do? How do you apply them properly? How can you tell what plants need?
Jason Avers explains it quite well in FERTILIZER 411:
Thank you, Jason. Good video.
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Nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus… what do they do? How do you apply them properly? How can you tell what plants need?
Jason Avers explains it quite well in FERTILIZER 411:
Thank you, Jason. Good video.
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3 responses to “Jason Avers Explains Side-Dressing and Fertilizers”
Off-topic, but reading through your new book, and it helped me solve a garden mystery! I had gourds, squashes, seminole pumpkins, AND cantaloupes all sprouting in pots, lost track of which ones were which, and had to sort it out after they were all fruiting. Fortunately, the pumpkins have a distinctive silvery patterning on their leaves, so (I thought) they were easier to tell apart from the rest, even before flowering and fruiting happened. But then, I started getting bunches of melons and gourds (good grief! SO many gourds! What the heck will I do with dozens of ornamental gourds??) and one of the things I thought was a pumpkin vine started growing what appeared to be bottle gourds– green, with stubby little necks.
And then, after a while, they started turning orange. The same orange as the pumpkins, oddly enough. And about that time I read in your latest book about Seminole pumpkins being more of a landrace, and having a lot of variability, and sometimes having necks… so not gourds, but pumpkins! Really, really weird looking pumpkins :)
Here they are, along with the gourds I cut today. Would’ve left them all longer, but we had a lot of rain this week and the lawn they’ve crept into is flooded— so they are all in the water :( Hopefully they can finish ripening off the vine. I lost one to worms after it sat in the water too long.
https://flic.kr/p/2josLPA
Those are beautiful!