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Article: Organic fertilizers have special benefits
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2003
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With all the concern about chemicals in our environment, some
gardeners fear that using chemical fertilizers will poison people,
plants or the soil.
This is not the case - when chemical fertilizers are used
correctly. But chemical fertilizers are too easy to use incorrectly.
And this is where "organic fertilizers" come into play.
Organic fertilizers are natural materials that are unprocessed or
only slightly processed. Manures, ground up rocks and composted
vegetable wastes are examples of organic fertilizers.
Chemical fertilizers are synthesized and more concentrated sources
of nutrients.
Even though nutrients "eaten" by a plant ultimately are the same
whether the source is a chemical or an ...