If you see signs of a potassium deficiency on your plants, or you have a soil test letting you know you need to add this ...

If you look at the labels of many of the most popular organic fertilizers at your local nursery, you might see some alarming ingredients. Many contain animal ingredients such as bone meal, blood meal, ...

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-- There's a new effort on Long Island to treat golf course fairways with organic kelp instead of pesticides. Sugar kelp is one of 30 varieties of large brown and green seaweed growing ...

Making a raised bed vegetable garden is simple and successful because the potting soil is fresh and fertile. Vegetables will grow like crazy that first season, but the ensuing years may prove less and ...

HOLLYWOOD — The word among workers sifting the soil at the city nursery on South Park Road is “Kelp Wanted.”City landscapers in search of a new way to help their land-locked plants grow are using a ...

The 4-1-1 on garden fertilizers is as easy as N-P-K. Those three letters stand for nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. (Potassium’s chemistry symbol K comes from the Latin word Kalium.) Nitrogen gives ...

Paul Dobbins works on a farm that needs no inputs — no fertilizer, no pesticides, no water. Oh, and it doesn’t use any land either. This farm increases wildlife habitat simply by existing. It causes ...