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11 Organic Fertilizers
Do your plants keep dropping leaves? Are your plants turning different colors? Both of these are signs that your plants are crying out for help, but your …
Perfecting Nutrient Delivery Through Fertigation
Nutrient management can get tricky, even for the most seasoned grower. Finding the ideal nutrient delivery method may involve some degree of trial and error, …
New Search App Offers Unbiased Results
Nichols Publishing Company, the publishers of Garden & Greenhouse and NUGL have entered a partnership that offers a new technology to the greenhouse and …
G&G Cover Story – Dr. Earth® – Healing our Planet
For the past 26 years, the company Dr. Earth® has focused on its mission of providing commercial and hobby growers around the globe with the highest quality …
Building a Hydroponic Nutrient Regimen
One of the biggest contributing factors to a successful hydroponic garden is the nutrient regimen. Unlike soil, which usually has various organic ingredients …
What Living Soil Means
Living soils are simply the portion of the soil that is composed of living microorganisms. To be truly healthy soil must contain a variety of microorganisms. …
7 Types & Signs of Plant Nutrient Deficiency
There are three major signs that your plants are in trouble, especially if they are in a limited or enclosed environment, like a hydroponics system: they’re …
How Pesticides Affect Soil Microbes
There is a symbiotic relationship between microbes and plant life in a natural soil environment. Plants like grass, trees and food crops depend on …
Increasing Microbial Population in a Soil or Medium
Within every soil or growing medium there is a world of living, microscopic organisms. It is these organisms who are responsible for the breaking down of …
Understanding the Importance of Beneficial Biology in Soil
Healthy soil contains thousands of organisms, both beneficial and detrimental. The trick is to find the balance between the two so the biology in the soil zone …