Harvest to Table

Side dressing is the application of fertilizers in a shallow furrow or band along the side of vegetable row crops or in a circle around individual plants. Side dressing gives extra nutrients to vegetable crops so that they can produce to their full potential. To side dress create a furrow 1 to 2 inches deep [...]

Organic fertilizers and organic soil amendments come from natural sources–plants, animals, and rocks. An organic fertilizer is a natural soil amendment that adds plant nutrients to the soil, most often nitrogen, phosphorous, or potassium. (NPK analysis is the concentration of major plant nutrients–nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), and potassium (K)–in a fertilizer as a percentage of [...]