Tips on Fertilizing Your Garden

There are so many great tips for fertilizing your garden. First your garden must have these three important nutrients: potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen. On some bags of fertilizers you might see N, P and K, which stands for those nutrients above. Also, notice on the bag there are numbers that may be displayed as 10-10-10 which stands for 10 percent nitrogen, 10 percent phosphate, and 10 percent potassium, an equal amount of each nutrient. There are plenty of companies that produce different grades of fertilizer for many types of plants.

You can even buy fertilizer that contains only one of each of the nutrients. Some cases displayed as (46-0-0) sodium nitrate, (33.5-0-0) nitrogen or 0-46-0 for phosphorus. The one thing to start with before picking your brand is to have your soil tested. This test comes with tips and guidelines for supplementing nutrients for lawn and garden. Most gardeners and landscapers like to have their lawns without the different colors on their lawn. If you've seen this on some lawns it's probably because of uneven spread of the fertilizer. To prevent this you need to buy a spreader which is a good investment to the up-keeping of your lawn. Decomposing fertilizer makes it easy for your plants to soak up the nutrient at a more steady pace.

Using grass clippings, compost piles make great fertilizer as well. Remember to have a good drainage system in your garden so old nutrients can drain from your garden. When adding fertilizer, dig a trench beside the rows of your plants two inches apart, three inches deep, and add the fertilizer cover and give it a good watering. This is called side fertilizing. Doing this will keep the nutrients in your garden evenly distributed. Fertilizing your lawn or garden is not hard, that's why knowing your plant's specific needs will help save you time and money.