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Article: FERTILIZER BASICS GARDENERS SHOULD KNOW, PART 2.(Life and Arts)(NORTHWEST GARDENS)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 24, 2003
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Byline: CHRIS SMITH COLUMNIST
LAST WEEK'S COLUMN focused on fertilizer basics. There's more to the subject though than being able to distinguish an organic fertilizer from a synthetic one and knowing some of the advantages and disadvantages of each. This week we'll wind up the discussion with a few more commonly asked questions.
Do vegetable gardens and orchards need fertilizer every year?
Vegetable gardens do. They're made up principally of fast growing, non-native, annual plants that need their nutrients now. Moreover, a vegetable garden is not a natural plant community in which quantities of dead plant matter and animal wastes recycle ...