Unlike outdoor plants, indoor plants are entirely dependent on us for their care and they need to be fertilized and watered regularly during the growing season. But when winter arrives and the days ...

Christmas cactuses bloom in winter, when the days grow cool and short. While low light levels trigger flowering, fertilizing Christmas cactus at the right time and in the right way is key for getting ...

Proper timing is the key to getting the best blooms.

Your plants might be trying to tell you something. Fertilizing is a key part of plant care, helping them thrive by supporting healthy growth, blooming, and resilience throughout the year. Yellowing ...

The third principle of Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ is to fertilize appropriately. To grow healthy plants, fertilizer will be needed when the soil food web is absent. It is also possible to fertilize ...

Fertilizer can help promote healthier and stronger plants by giving them a well-balanced level of nutrients, encouraging root strength and longer blooms. The general consensus is that you should ...

We gardeners routinely describe fertilizing as “feeding” our plants, but that’s not accurate. Plants “feed” themselves, producing their own food in the form of sugars through photosynthesis. We add ...

The months of January and February are the time to apply fertilizer to landscapes. When precisely this application is made depends on the growth of the plant. When plants like roses grow early or ...

Gardeners are often told how important nutrients are to plants. But what is a nutrient, actually? “Nutrients are the chemical elements that plants need to build their tissues and operate their life ...

For some plants, midsummer fertilizing can provide a needed boost after three months or more of vigorous growing. But for many others, fertilizer can be unnecessary or even harmful. “Only fertilize ...