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What is fulvic acid?

What is fulvic acid?

The smallest, most active fraction of the dark humus in healthy soil, and the part that actually gets inside the plant. What fulvic acid is, where it comes from, how...

What is fulvic acid?

The smallest, most active fraction of the dark humus in healthy soil, and the part that actually gets inside the plant. What fulvic acid is, where it comes from, how...

Bokashi bran sprinkled over kitchen food scraps in a sealed composting bucket

Bokashi bran: what it is, and how to use it to ...

Bokashi bran is rice or wheat bran inoculated with EM-1 microbes — sprinkled over kitchen scraps in a sealed bucket, it pickles food waste in two weeks, including the meat,...

Bokashi bran: what it is, and how to use it to ...

Bokashi bran is rice or wheat bran inoculated with EM-1 microbes — sprinkled over kitchen scraps in a sealed bucket, it pickles food waste in two weeks, including the meat,...

Flowering alfalfa (Medicago sativa) plant with purple blooms, growing in a UK pastoral landscape with rolling hills and dry stone walls

Alfalfa meal: the organic fertiliser with a bui...

Dried, ground alfalfa is one of the most underrated organic amendments in UK gardening. It also contains triacontanol, a naturally occurring plant growth regulator identified in a 1977 paper in...

Alfalfa meal: the organic fertiliser with a bui...

Dried, ground alfalfa is one of the most underrated organic amendments in UK gardening. It also contains triacontanol, a naturally occurring plant growth regulator identified in a 1977 paper in...

Dr Forest Organic Rose & Flower Fertiliser kraft bag on a greenhouse bench among potted pink and apricot roses

Epsom Salt for Roses: Does It Actually Work?

Epsom salt for roses is one of the most repeated tips in British gardening, and one of the least supported by trial evidence. It helps on the small minority of...

Epsom Salt for Roses: Does It Actually Work?

Epsom salt for roses is one of the most repeated tips in British gardening, and one of the least supported by trial evidence. It helps on the small minority of...

Hand applying white granular fertiliser to soil beside a red-fruited tomato plant

Organic vs chemical tomato fertiliser: which sh...

After fifteen years cooking professionally, I could taste how a tomato had been fed. The head-to-head on flavour, yield and soil, with the science behind it.

Organic vs chemical tomato fertiliser: which sh...

After fifteen years cooking professionally, I could taste how a tomato had been fed. The head-to-head on flavour, yield and soil, with the science behind it.

Weathered hands sprinkling dark grey rock dust over a young seedling in dark soil, green plants behind

Volcanic rock dust: silicon and trace minerals ...

Volcanic rock dust supplies silicon and over 60 trace minerals: the elements NPK fertilisers leave out. Here is the chef-and-soil-science case, plus the peer-reviewed evidence on yield, flavour and carbon...

Volcanic rock dust: silicon and trace minerals ...

Volcanic rock dust supplies silicon and over 60 trace minerals: the elements NPK fertilisers leave out. Here is the chef-and-soil-science case, plus the peer-reviewed evidence on yield, flavour and carbon...