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- How to properly fertilize your beds - tips and tricks
- Determine the nutritional requirements
- Choose the right fertilizer
- Small overview of special fertilizers:
- Tips
How much and what is fertilized depends on what grows on the garden bed
How to properly fertilize your beds - tips and tricks
In order for your plants to grow well, your beds need to be well supplied with nutrients. You can achieve this with the right fertilizer. However, finding it is not always easy, because there are countless different fertilizers.
Determine the nutritional requirements
For a needs-based fertilization, it is important that you know what your soil is missing. Have a soil analysis done every two to three years in a special laboratory. It does not cost too much and you get a lot of fertilizer tips.At least the pH, the humus content and the most important nutrients such as phosphorus, nitrogen and magnesium should be controlled.
If you give your plants too much fertilizer, not only will they suffer but also the environment. Because the fertilizer ends up in the groundwater. On the plants you can see over-fertilization, among other things on yellow or withered leaves.
Choose the right fertilizer
At most, it does not help much if you simply put some fertilizer on your bed, because too much can even do any harm. Be sure to follow the fertilizer recommendations from the laboratory. Without analysis you have to orient yourself differently. There are so-called pointer plants that can give information about the soil conditions. Then you know what your soil is missing and what fertilizer you should use.
Buttercup likes to grow on wet, calcareous and nitrogen rich soils. The large nettle also indicates nitrogenous soil, wild carrot and field horsetail, however, low nitrogen. On calcareous soil you will find not only buttercup but also chicory, meadow sage and coltsfoot while dog chamomile and little sorrel indicate acidic soil.
If you generally want to improve your garden floor, then compost is a cost-effective and effective means. However, it should be well matured and not suitable for plants sensitive to lime. Heavy feeders also need some nitrogen. This can be supplied with horn chips.
Small overview of special fertilizers:
Tips
Yellow or withered leaves are not always a sign of lack of water, it can also be an over-fertilization behind it.