If you fertilize plants in winter when they're not growing, you risk damaging them in five ways. This guide looks at when and ...

Watering a snake plant with a green watering can - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Snake plants (Dracaena trifasciata) are one of the most common houseplants for a reason: No matter how "green" your thumb is, ...

Give your plants a feeding every two to three weeks from the end of March to the middle of September, and don't fertilize ...

If you like to keep things as organic as possible in the garden, making your own fertilizer is an excellent ecological choice, and you’ll save yourself a few dollars in the process. Gardening experts ...

I find that many gardeners do not understand the proper use of fertilizers. They're confused about what fertilizers are, what they do, and why we use them. What are they First, remove from your mind ...

Good soil, sunshine, water: These are critical ingredients for healthy plants and a beautiful garden. Fertilizer? Not usually, said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist at The Morton Arboretum in ...

Scientists have succeeded in discovering AMOR, a sugar chain that increases the fertilization efficiency in plants. AMOR was found to be responsible for activating pollen tubes to lead to ...

Aims Nitrogen (N) fertilization is known to modify a plant's susceptibility to necrotrophic diseases. However, the effect of N nutrition on defence is not well known. It was hypothesized that not only ...