Soil Fertilizer and Soil Additives
For information on garden soil fertilizer, soil additives and how to get the best from them - you may need to suspend some belief from the writing on the packet, and pop back to school for a minute or two...
A common illusion about soil fertilizer and soil additives is that they are direct nutrients which must be promptly absorbed or they will be lost (either leached out of the soil by rain, or locked up in some insoluble, unusable form).
The fact is that instead of being used directly to any extent, most of the nutrients in soil fertilizer compounds are quickly blotted up by soil organisms such as bacteria, fungi, protozoa and actinomyces.
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