When feeding your plants there are always boxes to check off to ensure your garden or even select plants are getting the ideal nutrients every feeding. This ensures your crop is eating and being fertilized at optimal levels. But sometimes too much or too little of certain plant elements as well as micro and macro nutrients. To understand when our plants are becoming hungry from the lack of appropriate plant nutrition we must understand what they are craving on a regular basis. As a gardener you are familiar with NPK ratios. It is very important to recognize some plants make require more or less and certainly different times of the plants life cycle determines NPK ratios.
When a plant in the ground or in a pot begins to look pale and unhealthy, or starts to show signs of yellowing, reddening or browning leaves, it is probably experiencing some kind of problem. Sometimes nutrients deficiencies come from a host of other problems. Too much water or not enough are easy to fix issues that may be at the root of the problem ( no pun intended).
Is the soil too acid or too alkaline? Nutrients are more or less available in acidic or alkaline soils. In previous posts we have mentioned the importance of testing your soil prior to and during the crop cycle.
Essential Nutrients Plants obtain carbon, hydrogen and oxygen from water, air and sunlight, to make food for growth.
They also require the following for healthy growth: Macronutrients
Namely: Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur, calcium and magnesium. These are required by plants in relatively large amounts.
Micronutrients, also known as trace or minor elements Namely: Copper, manganese, zinc, iron, boron and molybdenum. These are required by plants in smaller quantities.
The Magnificent Garden Multi-Purpose Plant Food fills hunger voids from your plants. Feeding the soil with micro and macro elements which plants require a relatively high amount of you can be rest assured your crop is getting the optimal levels they need.
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