Kentucky Fertilizer

This is What a Massive 500 Gallon Propane Tank Explosion Looks Like

If there's one thing that you want to avoid with anything that's propane powered from your grill to your heater, It would most obviously be a situation that would put the propane tank in danger of building up enough pressure to explode and send shrapnel flying everywhere. While these tanks are fitted with safety...

Why humans struggled to make 'f' and 'v' sounds until farming came along

Love to drop F-bombs? Thank the shift to agriculture.

Grow your own jungle: easy exotic plants

Tropical gardening is all too often associated with expense and poor results. But choose your plants wisely and you can turn your patch into a slice of verdant jungle, says James Wong

Fertilizer and Mulch Dangers for Dogs.

During the spring and summer months you and your neighbors may be using plenty of fertilizer and mulch. Are these plant nutrients poisonous for dogs?

Researchers engineer bacteria to create fertilizer out of thin air

In the future, plants will be able to create their own fertilizer. Farmers will no longer need to buy and spread fertilizer for their crops, and increased food production will benefit billions of people around the world, who might otherwise go hungry.

The Top 5 Best Lawn Fertilizers

Not all fertilizers are created equal. When it comes to caring for your greens, it's important to use the best lawn fertilizers. Here's our top five.

Too much fertilizer can dry out plant tissue

Fertilizers include salts that can dry out plant tissue. Excessive fertilizer can cause a lawn to have brown patches and container plants to have too many leaves, too few flowers and leaves with discolored edges.

How To Make And Use The Ultimate Organic Fertilizer

Compost tea is the perfect way to boost your plants growth and obtain higher yields – naturally! Better yet, you can make it for free using your own compost! Use compost and cover crops for building …

The Benefits of Using Fish as a Fertilizer

Fertilizing with fish might sound like some kind of newfangled all-natural farming practice, but it's actually been popular since the ancient Egyptians used fish to make crops more fertile. Fish fertilizer offers a few unique benefits where artificially-manufacturers products fall short.

Fertilizer Facts: What, When and How Often [Infographic]

“What exactly is fertilizer? And, why do plants benefit from it?Fertilizer is simply a material added to soils or directly to plant tissues that contains nutrients essential to the growth…

Could urine be the perfect fertilizer for your garden?

A group of researchers is looking into ways to recycle and re-use human urine as fertilizer, and hopefully save precious water supplies in the process. It’s a project they’re calling “peecycling.”

Where does Colorado's poop go? Most of it is turned into fertilizer

Even as Colorado's population continues to grow, wastewater managers say they are well-positioned to handle the extra volume, in part because of the attention a shipment of New York City biosolids brought to the use of human waste as fertilizer.

Poultry litter as a fertilizer: Doing it efficiently and accurately

There is no doubt that using poultry litter to improve the fertility of our soils can be very advantageous to farmers

How to Use a Fertilizer and Seed Spreader

Used correctly, broadcast spreaders are the most efficient way to distribute grass seed, fertilizer, weed killer and other lawn products on your yard.

Understanding fertilizers and amendments

What do those numbers on bags and boxes of fertilizer and soil amendments really mean?

Half of your bread’s environmental impact comes from fertilizer