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Guarded Gardening with Fertilizer

By: Chris Moore

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'Too much of anything is good for nothing' is a saying that holds true not only for human beings but for plants as well. In landscaping or garden design, plants are an essential and obvious factor that needs to be nurtured more than all other elements in order to mature to its full potential. The proper usage of fertilizers will indeed aid your plants in flourishing though an overdose of it can be contaminate your crop for good. It is therefore important to know exactly what fertilizer you are dealing with and analyze whether it will in fact do more harm than good for your plants before you proceed with it.

Fertilizers are a chemical compound that contains one or more nutrients that are essential for your plants to cultivate. They are generally transferred in to plants through the soil or by foliar sprays. There are varying types of fertilizers that can be used by gardeners some not always successful but others more so. There are varying types of organic and inorganic fertilizers that are used throughout America.

When it comes to home gardening though there are many instances where the gardeners tend to overdose on fertilizers that contain nitrogen in order to ensure a rapid growth for their vegetation. This is not recommended. Tempting though it may be to cut a long story short, rapid increase of plant growth have major undesirable side effects that ensure that the time you saved overdosing on fertilizers will be made up when mending the damage created to the plants on ones lawn.

Putting excessive amounts of fertilizer on woody plants have shown to have extremely undesirable effects such as week wood due to the rapid increase of growth in the plant and increased susceptibility to cause disease and contamination in nearby lakes and rivers. The overuse of fertilizers that contain nitrogen does increase the growth of plants. Yet many fail to see that this in turn necessitates more irrigation and more pruning. Pruning wounds on the bark of plants that don't heal properly causes various diseases to infect your plants. The reason for this is that nitrogen loaded plants attract insects. There are also some plants that do not require fertilization at all such as native and drought plants.

Many experts recommend that fertilizers should be used on all landscape plants. And yet they also seem to conveniently leave out the hazardous side effects that the use of fertilization can cause in ones cultivation. Admittedly fertilizers can be essential for maintaining healthy lawns, flowering plants like roses, fruit trees that bare produce, vegetable gardens and irrigated pastures; it cannot be denied that the harmful effects seem to outweigh the desirable ones. Thereby it seems more prudent to use fertilizers only on woody plants that show a nutrient deficiency. This can be observed when a plants oldest leaves turn light green or yellow. Many pants tend to show iron deficiency symptoms in the spring. Though it may be tempting to douse them with fertilizers it is important to know that nitrogen fertilizers only make this worse. Instead of fertilizers, alkaline soils can be used for many deficiencies with greater results. Thereby when observing a symptom of nutrient deficiency in your plants it is always better to analyze the bark for infection or disease and if still unsure contact a professional.

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