{"id":1607,"date":"2012-04-20T15:06:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T14:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justlawnmowers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2016-05-12T15:07:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T14:07:40","slug":"improving-soil-adding-fertilizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justlawnmowers.co.uk\/blog\/improving-soil-adding-fertilizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving your soil by adding fertilizers"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have to eat to live. Without a regular supply of starch, protein and other complex nutrients we should very soon die. Plants have a very different arrangement! they use carbon, hydrogen and oxygen from the air and soil water in order to make their own starch and sugars. All they need from the soil is a number of simple chemicals which they then use to create all the amino acids, proteins etc that they need.<\/p>\n

All soils\u00a0have\u00a0a\u00a0stock\u00a0of these vital chemicals known as plant nutrients which come from the mineral part of the soil (sand, clay, etc) and from fallen leaves, dead roots etc. When the ground is cultivated and garden plants grown in it, the baklance is upset. Essential elements in the soil are depleted quite rapidly.<\/p>\n

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Three elements that the soil needs to contain and vital for health plant growth are nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus and are required in large quantities if plants are to grow strong. This means that these plant nutrients must be applied\u00a0regularly\u00a0if you are to keep your plants in good health. Compost or manure will supply a proportion of these nutrients but fertilizers will provide the main source.<\/p>\n

There are so many different types of fertilizers on the market that it can be a daunting task to know which to apply and at what time and in what quantity. We wont be going into these details in this post, but it may be something that we go into in more details another time.<\/p>\n

The golden rule is to feed plants including grass on a regular basis but no more often than the package recommends.<\/p>\n

Methods of applying fertilizer<\/h3>\n