The health of Southwest Florida’s water quality is essential for the region’s environment, economy and overall way of life.

For most homeowners, a broadcast or rotary spreader is the easiest way to apply granular fertilizer evenly across the yard.

Another way to kill new grass with fertilizer is to use a weed-and-feed formula. Weed-and-feeds are 2-in-1 products that deliver nutrients and herbicides in the same application. If the herbicide is ...

Learn how nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium—the ‘big three’ nutrients—impact plant growth and what fertilizer bag numbers ...

Researchers have identified an enzyme called NrfA that helps bind nitrogen to soil, reducing harmful runoff and fertilizer ...

Faced with a water-quality crisis, Iowa grapples to find a solution: Is it more treatment, voluntary conservation, regulation ...

Use free coffee grounds as natural lawn fertilizer. Learn collection methods and application techniques for healthier, greener grass growth.

Use free coffee grounds as natural lawn fertilizer. Learn collection methods and application techniques for healthier, greener grass growth.

Local governments ban fertilizing lawns during Florida’s rainy season, from June 1 to Sept. 30, to give the Indian River Lagoon a respite from the nitrogen and phosphorus influx that fuels toxic ...

Clover Whether three- or four-leaved, you’re lucky if your lawn contains clover. Like dandelions, ‘White Dutch’ clover, the kind commonly found in lawns, rates high for sequestering fertility ...

Fertilizers commonly supplement deficient nitrogen levels in the soil. For cool-season turfgrasses, experts recommend applying 1 to 3 pounds of actual nitrogen for every 1,000 square feet per year for ...

Every bag of fertilizer has three numbers on the front of the packaging. Those numbers are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK), which we refer to as primary nutrients.