About The Long Island Gardener Expertise Do you know the wrong fertilizer will keep your plants from blooming?
Do you know that too much Nitrogen can kill your grass, even if it does not burn the roots? Do you know that Roses need a LOT of Nitrogen to bloom -- and why is that?
There's some complex chemistry in those plant foods. The secrets behind N-P-K are the key to the ultimate lawn, the the biggest flowers, the most fruits and vegetables. And if you don't get it right, you could be sorry.
I'll show you what you did wrong, and how to fix it.
Experience Homeowner with gardens indoors and outdoors, lawns back and forth. I wrote my first gardening column for our college newspaper, teaching roomates about the right way to feed those windowsills gardens. Today I look for challenges. Organic Fertilizers are the key to proper feeding of all our plants. Can you make your own fertilizer? Some people think so -- but there are side effects. I have been there, done that for 54 years and there is nothing like the voice of experience when it comes to Horticulture and Fertilizers.
Publications Numerous and sundry but only in college did I write about plants.
Education/Credentials B.A., Botany and Mass Communications.
Fertilizer - Organic fertilizers that grows by eating waste.
Expert: The Long Island Gardener - 7/16/2008
Question Hi, i heard that there is this bacteria which eats up waste and multiplies itself.
It then becomes a soil fertilizer, i am not sure about the method. But if i am not mistaken, i was told if the bacteria is combined with the waste at a certain temperature (e.g 35 C to 45 C ) , the fertilizer can be created.
Can you tell me more about this? I've been researching for 2 weeks but i have not come up with any name for this. I heard the company that does this is based on Canada and they are manufacturing it in China since they have more waste there.
Answer Sounds interesting, Carey. I need to know what WASTE you are referring to. There are pollutants -- oil from oil spills, PCBs in soil and water, etc -- that might be considered 'waste'. There's sewage -- definite 'waste', different bacteria. Tell me more please and I think I might be able to i.d. this for you.
