In Milbridge, a former farmer is grinding invasive green crabs into fertilizer. In South Portland, a food incubator is ...

A shovel full of compost about to be added to a raised garden - Mariana Serdynska/Shutterstock So many different types of kitchen scraps can be reused in your garden as a natural fertilizer, and ...

Mike will appear at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 19 at the Leesburg Flower & Garden Festival. It’s almost time to apply corn gluten meal for crabgrass prevention and legal lawn feeding Susan ...

What is the most important fertilizer ingredient? Quite simply, it's good soil. How fertilizer works in your garden, and how plants grow, has more to do with the structure and substance of your soil ...

Gardeners have been fussing with fertilizers since the first human stuck a seed in soil. The goal of fertilization is to create the richest soil possible, since it is in the soil where plants draw the ...

Healthy growth in any garden depends on a steady supply of nutrients, and nitrogen is one of the most important ones. Without enough of it, plants lose vigor and color, and soil struggles to support ...

Cottonseed — a raw agricultural product once largely wasted — makes excellent fertilizer and mulch for vegetable plants. The same protein-rich, premium supplement the Virginia cattle industry has been ...