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Farmer Jeff Rasawehr said he knows when to honor tradition -- like preserving a section of his barn where his granddad milked cows -- and when to depart from it. For the past several years, the Mercer County farmer has moved into a new, organic method of cover cropping that's winning over more of his neighbors and holds promise at resolving a troubling aspect of high-intensity farming -- the toxic nutrient runoff that fouls streams and pollutes Grand Lake St. Marys and Lake Erie.
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Question: I have used a slow-release fertilizer in my containers. Are there other uses of this fertilizer in my garden? - Harry Fritts, Petaluma Answer: Using a slow-release fertilizer is an easy way to provide fertilizers to all plants in the garden. Some of these products are available as an organic fertilizer. The nutrients in a slow-release are not readily available to the soil, but are often used on lawns, where they extend the period of greening, and for pots; they are used to reduce the times required
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A measure that would have put tight restrictions on fertilizers that homeowners from Edgewater to Ringwood use on their lawns went into legislative limbo on Monday. The bill was considered the most prohibitive of its kind in the nation and a major protection for ponds and lakes, including several in North Jersey, that have been polluted by fertilizer runoff. It came out of a package of legislation to restore Barnegat Bay, but its impact would have been statewide.
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Lawn care products maker Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. said on Tuesday that its lawn maintenance fertilizers used in the United States will be phosphorus-free by 2012's end, helping to reduce water pollution. Phosphorous, along with nitrogen, is a nutrient that can turn aquatic habitat into dead zones when excessive amounts are dumped through residential and farm runoff and waste water. The nutrients can feed algae blooms that block out light needed by aquatic plants, then die off and remove oxygen from the water as the organisms decompose.
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Today we still add plenty of animal waste and ground up plant and animal parts to improve our soils. Bat guano is one of those rich organic fertilizers, that frankly, I'm glad comes dried and packaged. I remember my first spelunking encounter with bat poop while slogging through oozing mud with water up to my chest in a Missouri cave. There were sleeping bats shimmering with dew hanging inches away from my helmeted head as my fingers groped along the rock ledges on either side of that narrow cave. Suddenly it dawned on me that the wet brown stuff I was feeling on the ledge felt different from the stuff my feet were wading in. That finger dip felt spongy and warm, like a compost pile working. I asked my friend, Jeff, what it was. His smiling reply of "bat guano" made me jerk my han...
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PALMER, Alaska (AP) -- While Alaska has abundant natural resources, soil that's good for gardening isn't among them. To help residents create better dirt and grow vegetables to supplement their hunting, fishing and gathering, the University of Alaska at Fairbanks was given a federal grant to create demonstration gardens where soil will be mixed with local fertilizers.
