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Soil scientist focusing on soil fertility, conservation, crop residues and nutrient cycling. BlogAgri subject areas: soil health, crop nutrition and fertilizer calculations.
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19-19-19 fertilizer contains 19% nitrogen, 19% phosphate as P₂O₅, and 19% potash as K₂O by weight. It is an equal-analysis NPK fertilizer that supplies the three primary labelled nutrients in a 1:1:1 ratio. That does not mean it is automatically…
Good farming often starts with something we cannot see. Pull up a healthy bean plant and look closely at its roots. You may find small nodules attached to them. Inside those nodules, bacteria are helping the plant obtain nitrogen through…
An above-ground garden bed is an elevated growing area filled with soil and usually enclosed by wood, metal, brick, stone, or another durable material. A successful bed should be narrow enough to reach across, deep enough for the selected crops,…