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Protecting Wisconsin Waters in the Fall – Benefits of Composting

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:02:06 +0000

Protecting Wisconsin Waters in the Fall – Benefits ofCompostingWisconsin Water is our most precious resource. And inWisconsin means more water from the tap – ITIS part of our life and heritage. Our beautiful lakes, natural river sand are the places where our families go for swimming, fishing, boating, hiking and enjoy. A simple way to water your compost protectour autumn leaves. "In this time of year are the largest leaves oflandscape waste component," said Derek Scheer, director of Wisconsin Clean Water, said. "The leaves are one of the easiest of the compound wastesto landscape. A simple compost pile, the protection of our waters, to reduce waste in landfills and improve its plant." WhyCompost? There are some good reasons to compost. 1.It reduces the amount of algae in our lakes. 2.It reduces waste in landfills. 3.It improves soil structure, texture and andincreases soil aeration and water retention. Your plants will thank the compound to produce more. Reduce algae in the lake of leaves of our contributions to our lakes turn green in summer byfertilizing weeds and algae. When leaf piles sit andrain bring wind storm drains and into our lakes, sewers throughthe. Even if the sheets are stacked on the lawn, the rain seeps through stacks contains phosphorus and other nutrients that flow into storm sewers. Reducing waste in landfills by nearly 30 per cent of the owners of waste to discard any yearcan be composted. This means that waste from landfills andcreates a product that provides valuable organic matter for garden lawnand. Composting is the easiest way for homeowners todispose them. Instead of clogging landfills, leaving andfruit and fruit peel can be recycled as compost backyard. Improvement SoilLeaves, plants killed by frost, the remains of plants and grassclippings – all these materials can be composted. Theperfect Fall is time to start a compost pile. The composting process will continue throughout the winter and return to its fertile soil for spring planting. Compost is one of the best modifications nature andsoil coverage, and may be used instead of commercialfertilizers. They are simple, efficient way to use the patio wasteand will start their spring garden. Best of all, ischeap compost. Setting up a compost pile composting can be as simple as digging a space in your garden, atleast foot deep hole and dump the leaves in which twelve inches itwith excavated earth. You can also buy a compost bin or create your own. The compost pile containing a mixture of nitrogen-rich materials andcarbon because both are essential for the completion of themicroorganisms do. Green, green wastesusually are rich in nitrogen, while woody materials often behigh carbon. Also remains of cooking, such as egg shells, melon peel, coffee grounds, banana peels, etc. in a bucket of ice compost.Placing empties into the cabinet under the kitchen sink is an easy way to collect the leftovers . Avoid meat and dairy waste in the compost pile. This typicallyattract rodents and other pests that do not want in your backyard.For a big list of what can and can not go to a compost pile http://www.compostguide.com/ see. They are easy to follow chart listing common composting materials. While the stack is large enough to insulate, continue to decompose during the winter. When warm weather returns in spring, use a shovel to stir the pile (RUN). The purpose of turning is turning the material in the pile. Thepile should be rotated weekly. The compost pile is ready to usewhen cools and the material is dark, friable andsweet odor, such as soil. The mature compost can be used next spring for mulch around shrubs or flowers or gardens enhancerfor ground. If composting is not working for you, to participate in your local library ormunicipal autumn leaves. Call the Department of Public Works. Most towns, villages, sand collections of the city in October of leaf or citizens candrop garden waste in specific places. Call your municipality for Lunches schedule.If leaves, leaves room to pick up the terrace between the sidewalk and street. Put one in your yard tarpover the leaves to stop blowing intothe street. The Stock Exchange of its leaves if the patio is very narrow, the bags must contain only leaves and easyemptying top open. Raking leaves into the street, take them to the drains

Best Trees for Growing in Lawns

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:30:32 +0000

LawnsIn Trees for a good tree to grow in a garden requires a number of things going for it. In particular a good lawn tree: 1.Should are deciduous, which means it should have been in winter sheets. This allows light in the winter when light levels are lower. Deciduous trees do not block winter sunlight warming to reach the house. The trees in the south or east sides of each house must always be deciduous, not evergreen. 2.Should have roots that can not crawl in the grass, which will be affected by lawnmowers. The roots that grow in the garden are a real pain, hard to lose, and easily ruin lawnmower.3.Should attractive, or why else even good? 4.Should be relatively easy to grow, not too fussy. Always select trees resistant.5.Should know that the disease to adapt to a lawn irrigation. Some trees grow well on grass and others, such as oak, no. Planting trees in the garden, taking place in a grassy area, though often irrigated.6.Should a tree species that do not have a negative impact on the lawn allopathic. For example, eucalyptus or walnut trees produce a substance that kills other plants by producing shadow them.7.Should not too deep. No grass can grow in deep shade. The tree branches grass ideally remain fairly high. 8.Should not much pollen allergen. There is no point in planting a tree, make you sick one year .* Note: No tree will grow grass and the soft grass is allowed to log! I can not stress this enough. A young tree in a garden, a space underneath that is kept completely free of grass for the first 4-5 years of tree growth. If the grass is allowed to grow with the trunk of a sapling, tree growth is almost always stunted. Even after this period it is better to keep the grass directly under the tree or plant growth under low it.Trunks canopy of young trees should not be taken with weedwackers. String trimmers ruin the tender bark of many young trees, grass, and then stop growing. Maintain a clean area of a minimum 3'wide new tree.Even a lawn grass has shallow roots, though it makes little sense and watering lawns much deeper than a foot, trees will develop deep roots. To ensure that your new tree that grows in depth, drought-resistant roots, give a very good week once a month from spring to autumn. Just put a garden hose near the base of the tree, turn to low and leave to soak for a long time. Check mulch around the trunks of young trees! Mulching trees is a good idea, but the mulch a few inches from the actual trunk of young tree. In the winter, especially when there is snow, it's a darn good idea to wrap one-inch wire mesh around the trunk made to keep rabbits and mice from eating the tender young bark. More than one new tree dies from the damage of winter in the trunk of rodents.If you live in an area where winter temperatures drop below zero F, it is a good idea for the new varieties of trees, grass paint white. The white paint will reflect the winter sun, and the sap begins to flow and heating in the middle of winter. Painted trees are much less likely "winter sun scald," get what they call in the crevices of the bark and splits open, usually on the south side of the fuselage. For indoor use white latex paint for this degree, and is also good for painting some of the larger branches. This picture is repeated each fall with good access to the tree is about 7-8 years old. As the trees mature their bark will thicken and harden, and naturally more resistant to freezing and the winter sun Make sure the new trees twice each season fertilization. Use a fertilizer high in N, nitrogen in the spring, and a fertilizer low in nitrogen and high potassium content in the fall. Grass growing under trees and may need a little fertilizer through the growing season, because tree roots absorb a large portion of lawn fertilizers also. There are devices with long thorns and holes where the screw on the end of a hose. You put the fertilizer for the tree in this type of construction, push the tip of depth in the root zone of the tree, and put the snake. This is a good way to fertilize lawn trees. The existing trees and planting a new lawn beautiful tree is lawnsMany

Miracle of Mulch – 15 Tips on How to Use Garden Waste to Save Water, Boost Soil and Reduce Weeding

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:01:34 +0000

Sometimes I really miss the obvious. For years I piled grass clippings and sweep the leaves in a corner of our garden, while struggling to fight weeds overtaking the garden on the other. Finally, the dawn of light and began to redistribute the piles of waste mulch.Now the garden bed is getting a nice feeling of order with the yard waste is recycled in a barrier that provides nutrients to the soil and protects it from invasive weeds, erosion, drought, frost and summer. As simple as organic fertilizer is a strategy that helps hints.1.First have a few and the benefits of mulch layer to maximize the celebration from 5 to 10 cm (2 to 4 inches), extends lead to a lack oxygen and excess acid soil moisture. 2.To improve the efficiency of fertilizer as a weed suppressant, provide a bottom layer of newspaper ink (no color, because they can carry dangerous metals), heavy cardboard or natural fabrics like cotton. (Wet the paper and board first makes them easier to handle.) 3.Many Gardeners advise the manure or compost to the soil first. 4.Leave at least 30 cm (1 ft) between trees and mulch – mulch too close can suffocate the roots and also a habitat for rodents that chew the bark of trees and waist to create. 5.If you afraid that the crust of spores can be run dry leaves, add lime to stimulate the decomposition of the spring. Compost tea is accelerating this process. 6.Turn under your compost each spring to deter slugs and snails by laymen. 7.If neighborhood cats treat your payment as his litter box, add a top layer of pineapple – which strongly dislike the texture. T 8.Don Mulch with peat – which dries into a hard mat that resists water. The 9th bark mulch (ground or chipped) Rhodes is perfect, azaleas, plants, forests and other lovers of acid soils. To use all lovers of alkaline soils, dust the area with dolomite lime to sweeten things first. 10.Wood chips, shavings and sawdust from the back or the workshop (not wood or cedar, though!) Works well around trees treated. 11.Pulled weeds can be cut and used as a nitrogen-rich fertilizer for vegetable and annual beds. Avoid persistent roots or seeds. 12.Pesticide-free grass clippings are an excellent mulch.13.Straw is effective for removal of thorns. First, however, horticulturist Carolyn Jones suggests laying straw in a tarp, and rental of water the seeds germinate and die, otherwise the straw may sprout in your garden. 14.The organisms that feed on wood and straw mulches draw nitrogen from the soil, so to balance things by adding nitrogen-rich fertilizer. Mulch 15.Leaf is full of nutrients. Always trim the leaves to make them porous enough oxygen and water to your floor. Simply run the engine on their lawn, use a leaf shredder / wood chipper or, Wise gardening organic gardening expert review Sheena Adams suggests, throwing a pile of leaves in a large plastic container and enter your Weed Whacker through them.

Geraniums Galore – A Container Garden Delight

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:38:51 +0000

Across the country, geraniums flaunt their red and scarlet, pink, pink flowers and white with a few glad to see that other plants can rival. In stairwells of burning of the city and the roofs, windows in the suburbs and country houses, in tubs and pots on terraces and patios, and hanging baskets of the porches of summer homes, are loved and cared Sun plantsIt to thrive, but tolerates shade, where it is generally treated as a leafy vegetable. What is too much moisture and blamed the diet. Remains very wet, yellow leaves, gets a heavy soil and high in nitrogen to leaves of plants and flowers sparingly.Even if any other type you choose, you can garden in pots varied from one to two areas of fantasy or wide leaves, scented leaves, ivy and Lady or Martha Washington geraniums (also called a show or fancy geraniums name), not to mention a few oddities of cactus and climbing geraniums types.The zonal features circular dark spots on the round green leaves. Double dominate the market and are offered by florists in the spring for planting in gardens and window boxes.Variegated geraniums, with leaves that are often brightly colored, attractive, even in his prime. Located in leafy green geraniums and other plants, pots of variegated plants add color and posterior border pattern.The, ivy geraniums are among the most abundant flowers that grow in favorable conditions. They dislike shade and high humidity and thrive best in climate, with warm days and cool nights, as California.Lady Washington, considered the best of the geraniums, are not so easy to grow. Ivy leaf as they prefer cool nights and warm sunny days, preferring shelter from wind and the day when a gardener sun.If geranium, may cause your pot plant collection with some cactus and climbing geraniums. They give you strange and fascinating shapes of flowers and certain awakening comment.Geraniums flower and look good in pots, boxes and planters. They thrive in various soil mixtures if drainage is good. For abundant bloom, however, provide special training is not high in nitrogen, or lush foliage and flowers few results. I have success with a good garden soil and sprinkle a little fertilizer and bone meal 5-10-5. During the growing season, plants respond to low nitrogen liquid fertilizer form.When potting, generous with drainage material to ensure the free passage of water. As with any plant, always water with care, because too much or not enough can be harmful. The best rule is to water when the soil surface feels dry. After weeks of good soil and plants do not need water again. If the soil is kept too wet, yellow leaves as they dry and wither discolor.To to maintain the growth of plants, containers back from time to time. Remove leaves and faded yellow flowers that are especially distracting on plants at the gates and other important places. If rain rots and disfigures the center florets of the head, pulling on them with fingers, making the exterior buds.If unmarred want flowers and plants for next spring, has cut three fifty-eight inches August or early September. Look for mature stalks (with separate sheets together) that break easily as a string bean. Woody growth is hard to root and succulent tips tend to rot. Before planting the cuttings in a shady spot spread for several hours as the leaves moisture.When ready for planting, cut the lower leaves, allowing two or three to each of the cutting losses. Also pull small wings on the stem, because they tend to rot. Dip stem ends in hydrated lime to prevent cavities and place halfway, in a flat or a large pot of pure sand or a mixture of sand and peat. With geraniums, rooting powders are hardly necessary. When cuttings develop inch-long roots, they are ready for the distance on the soles of another individual floor or 2-inch pots. Fill with a mixture of three parts sandy loam and one part peat or humus. After planting, keep in the shade during the early days, and for the cold weather.When cuttings separated from their strong root systems, change to 3 – and 4-inch pots. Use the same potting mixture as before, with bone meal added. Later, as established plants begin to grow, feeding regularly with a phosphorus fertilizer such as 5-10-5 or 4-12-8.To keep woody plants and promote branching, while small pop, to begin the

I’m A Leaf Thief And A Composting King

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:30:53 +0000

Each fall, homeowners rake leaves, place them in bags and put them on the sidewalk. Every autumn I gas my mini-van, driving through my neighborhood and steal them. I am an experienced thief leaves and usually can fill two or three times in one weekend. Unlike regular thieves, I fence the goods on the black market, because the leaves are more valuable to me and my garden. The leaves are a great ingredient to make compost and gardeners can not get enough them.A person stops a thief, because you can only produce so much waste in your own backyard. You rake leaves, mow lawns, clean their flower and vegetable garden waste and simply not enough for compost garden of moderate size. Remember to be digested after much smaller. So when I see people throwing garden this excellent resource that I have to take the law into my own hands.Not only a soil amendment fertilizer rich in nutrients, but also a big booster of land. You can loosen hard clay soils and sandy soils allow more water to retain. Compost can be used as a substitute for fertilizer and also will balance the pH and soil fertility. All this means you will have healthier plants and a nice looking garden.To fertilizer for the garden you need to collect "Browns" (carbon-rich) and "Green" (rich in nitrogen). Fill your compost bin with 1 part green to about 20 parts "brown". With the falling leaves is a big "Brown" an action is a great need gardeners.Without add a nitrogen source to the left when you get something called the leaf fungus decomposes. Leaf mold is great for your garden and can be used as fertilizer. But if you really want to make compost and all the benefits that go with it, then there are some "green" to the mix to enjoy. The lawn mowing your lawn mower is an important source of nitrogen. Empty the lawnmower in his compost bin bag when mowing the lawn. Another great source of nitrogen is ground coffee. Do not worry if only a few cups a day, you can only serve at your local coffee chain coffee store.If wet or compost pile and remember that this is changing and should not have usable compost for the time during years comes.If your neighbors are not smart enough to profit from their garden waste and composting it up to you to ensure you do not lose the gifts of the trees. Dar leaves his home in a compost bin and, finally, his garden. Your plants will thank you.

Hints And Requirements To Make The Optimum Compost

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Compost is the heart of gardening. To grow you need something to take the land, not the plant. Most of the food you eat in a plant's roots. The leaves take in food, but nothing on the scale that the roots do. By placing a layer of compost into the soil each year, either on the lawn or garden you have provided the nutrients that mother nature had to be done. Here are tips to make better compost and analyze requirements for the material compost.Hints stack their compost bins pileBegin compound with 3 to 4 meters wide Help. This format is ideal if allowed rapid internal heating of the compost pile, forcing the termination process. Smaller vessels will be difficult to heat and can not operate at normal winter temperatures, take over. Larger containers to reduce the leaking of air into the pile, some slowdown decomposition.Put pair of nitrogen in the leaves when placed in the stack. Add one or two cups of organic lawn fertilizer, fewer herbicides, four kilos of leaves. Or you can share an evening of two parts fresh grass clippings or garden related remains.Wet green leaves as they are stacked, because moisture is a necessity for degradation and rain will soak through a pile of leaves quickly. Note, can be packed in shredded leaves on the compost pile, reducing the oxygen needed to turn up decomposition.Don about compost piles in the fall. This practice allows heat to escape, necessary for the process of keeping the winter. Compost piles must be transformed in coming years to accelerate the composting process.There are only four conditions 1. Exposed to a wide air will compost well mixed hope high temperature needed to kill weed seeds and other undesirable pathogens. For the risk-free way, do not break down diseased tomato plants or similar plant material. The absence of oxygen, a foul odor compost pile and the reduction process. This can be avoided by turning the pile once in while.2. If the deck is wet dry, until a few moments with the wet hose is all that is needed. Do not overwater as a soggy pile will not oblige the right way and no unwanted odors.3. Particle size in the field of composting, less is better when it comes to what is put on the stack. Branches and large chunks slow process and takes much longer to compost. Using a helicopter or a shredder, which ends in smaller pieces. Or you can try a hand trimmer, cut large stems and stalks into smaller pieces to reduce particulate matter size.4. Power Plant Because microbes, the degradation of organic matter to help make use of nitrogen metabolism, additional nitrogen should be used. Clippings are high in nitrogen and will help in composting, when mixed with other materials. Do not use the cuts that have been recently applied herbicides. Kitchen waste such as meat products, oil or fat and bone can not be used if a call to rodents and other animals. Moreover, any pet or human waste made in the compost pile. If you follow the instructions, you can make compost from leaves are ready for use by the following late spring. If you just threw a bunch of them, it takes two or three years to decompose. But Mother Nature will ensure that the leaves into compost, sooner or later.

I’m A Leaf Thief And A Composting King

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:59:27 +0000

Each fall, homeowners rake leaves, place them inbags and put them on the sidewalk. Every autumn I gas up mymini-van, driving through my neighborhood and steal them. Askill and leaf thief I can usually fill two or three times in one weekend. Unlike regular thieves, I have thegoods fence on the black market because valuableto leaves me and my garden. The leaves are a great ingredient to make compost and gardeners can not get enough of them.A person leaves a thief, because you can only somuch yard waste produced on their own. You rake leaves, mow yourlawn, clean your flower and vegetable garden waste to compost isn'tenough only of moderate size after digesting garden.Remember be much smaller. Sowhen I see people throwing this great resource garden Ihave the law into my own hands.Not only a rich soil amendment, nutrient compound, but is also important soil enhancer. You can loosen hard clay soils and sandy it'llallow greater water retention. Compost can be used as fertilizer for areplacement and also improve fertility andsoil pH balance. All this means you have healthier plants and a nice looking garden.To fertilizer for the garden you need to collect "Browns" (carbon-rich) and "Green" (rich in nitrogen). Enter your compostbin with 1 part green to about 20 parts "brown". With autumn leaves is a great "Brown" an action is a great need forgardeners.Without add a source of nitrogen to leave their getsomething called leaf mold when it decomposes. Leaf mold isstill very good for your garden and can be used as fertilizer. Butif really want to make compost and the total benefit that come with it will have some green to the mix to enjoy. The lawn mowing your lawn mower is a great source of nitrogen. Empty the lawnmower in his pocket when compostbin mowing. Nitrogenis Another good source of ground coffee. Do not worry if only a few cups a day, you can more served in a cafe or coffee chain store.If wet your compost pile, and remember to turn that hereand that you should have usable compost for the moment springcomes.If their neighbors are not smart enough to benefit from their yard waste compost and have with it is up to you these gifts to ensure that trees are not in vain. Dar thoseleaves a home in her compost bin and eventually garden.Your your plants will thank you.

I’m A Leaf Thief And A Composting King

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:58:57 +0000

Each fall, homeowners rake leaves, place them in bags and put them on the sidewalk. Every autumn I gas my mini-van, driving through my neighborhood and steal them. I am an experienced thief leaves and usually can fill two or three times in one weekend. Unlike regular thieves, I fence the goods on the black market, because the leaves are more valuable to me and my garden. The leaves are a great ingredient to make compost and gardeners can not get enough them.A person stops a thief, because you can only produce so much waste in your own backyard. You rake leaves, mow lawns, clean their flower and vegetable garden waste and simply not enough for compost garden of moderate size. Remember to be digested after much smaller. So when I see people throwing garden this excellent resource that I have to take the law into my own hands.Not only a soil amendment fertilizer rich in nutrients, but also a big booster of land. You can loosen hard clay soils and sandy soils allow more water to retain. Compost can be used as a substitute for fertilizer and also will balance the pH and soil fertility. All this means you will have healthier plants and a nice looking garden.To fertilizer for the garden you need to collect "Browns" (carbon-rich) and "Green" (rich in nitrogen). Fill your compost bin with 1 part green to about 20 parts "brown". With the falling leaves is a big "Brown" an action is a great need gardeners.Without add a nitrogen source to the left when you get something called the leaf fungus decomposes. Leaf mold is great for your garden and can be used as fertilizer. But if you really want to make compost and all the benefits that go with it, then there are some "green" to the mix to enjoy. The lawn mowing your lawn mower is an important source of nitrogen. Empty the lawnmower in his compost bin bag when mowing the lawn. Another good source of nitrogen is ground coffee. Do not worry if only a few cups a day can more or coffee served at your local coffee chain store.If your compost pile moist and remember that this is changing and should not have usable compost for the time for years comes.If your neighbors are not smart enough to profit from their garden waste and composting it up to you to ensure you do not lose the gifts of the trees. Give the leaves of a home in your compost bin and eventually your garden. Your plants will thank you.

Bonsai Care – Use Of Fertilizer

admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:14:24 +0000

Copyright 2006 Mdarma The existence of a bonsai plant depends on several factors. To list a few: * The irrigation is an important function and technique of water is equally important .* light and moisture are essential for healthy growth .* Fertilizer is another product important and necessary to create a bonsai plant healthy fund .*, pruning, temperature and the Re-pots are also a major concern in growing a bonsai plant.In this article we will see the need for fertilizers, which eat the plants. Like all plants, bonsai plants need fertilizer to grow a healthy plant. Natural foods are water, carbon dioxide and sunlight. Plants convert them into carbohydrates and sugar, which is a form of food plants.Fertilizer is another type of bonsai plant foods with the necessary vitamins and minerals they contain. For example, to aid in cell division and enzyme processes, compost has three main themes – nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.Let 's see how the nitrogen contributes to the growth of our Bonsai Plant.The nitrogen fertilizer, Bonsai plants are beautiful green color and length of leaves. It helps the growth of the bonsai plant. Nitrogen also affects growth and internodes is needed for protein production. Phosphorus is also used for cell replication, but also, this element is necessary for RNA, DNA and fat, leaving a dark green. However, phosphorus is an important factor in bonsai flowering and development of root growth. The cell development and activity of enzymes in healthy cells Bonsai plants in play.Fertilizer Potassium is absorbed by the roots through a process known as reverse osmosis, which means that moves the less concentrated solution . The result is the fertilizer and water can travel long distances through the plant. Please note that fertilizers can be absorbed by the leaves of the plant, although the absorption through the main roots.It is recommended to use a liquid fertilizer because it is much easier on the bonsai plants but which also gives immediate results. It is strongly recommended that you follow the instructions. A word of warning, if you choose to fertilizer often benefit from the diluted solution, so salt reduction contents.As realize that we are three types of key components required for a bonsai plant. They are: 1) Nitrogen 2) The phosphorus and 3) potassium. So when you buy a subscription, we must ensure that these three chemicals are present in fertilizers. Check it out on the label.

The Primary Macro Nutrients

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:29:48 +0000

Nutrients for plants are usually available through the nutrient solution. The three most needed by plants are the major macro-nutrients and these are as follows: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K). Nutrients are required for plants to grow fast and high performance. Hydrogen, carbon and oxygen are the three main elements that are required and are readily absorbed from the water by the roots and air through the leaves. Besides these three elements, the mineral nutrient solution with the nutrient solution. This article reviews the main macro-nutrients NPK or the common abbreviation. The elements are disorders.NitrogenNitrogen nutrients for energy, with a chemical symbol N, is a major macro-nutrients essential for plant growth. The atmosphere is 78% nitrogen. Gardening on the floor, there is a mechanism known as nitrogen fixing nitrogen in the air in a form that can be absorbed by the roots.Nitrogen is very essential, because once the plant is converted into proteins. These proteins are necessary for the production of new cells for plant growth. Therefore, is responsible for the leaves and stems, and the replacement of old equipment parts.The nitrogen deficiency manifests in older leaves first. Older leaves yellow color. We may also note that the new leaves and stems are weak. The contrast supply growth, excess nitrogen will be soft and weak. Excess nitrogen also prolonged delay of the fruit and will hurt your overall yield.PhosphorusThe following macro-nutrients, phosphorus or the chemical symbol P. This is essential for photosynthesis, the process of cooking real power plants that occur in the leaves. It also acts as a catalyst for the rapid transfer of energy within the plant system.Phosphorus is also a prerequisite for building strong root system of the plant. Moreover, it is vital for flower and seed production studies have shown that sufficient phosphorus is essential, while germination and nitrogen flowering.Like weaknesses, deficiencies of phosphorus are also shown in the older leaves first. You will notice an unusual green leaves of a plant growth retardation. Moreover, the presence of brown spots on leaves or purple Phosphorus.PotassiumPotassium confirms the fault, with a chemical symbol K is also essential in photosynthesis, by increasing the chlorophyll in the leaves. It also acts as a regulator of stomatal openings to absorb oxygen better. Its role in triggering the production and transport of sugars and starches, although the plant is also another important role.Potassium is the requirement for strong root growth for better water absorption. It also activates enzymes to control the plant. Potassium is usually very important in the hydroponic garden higher yields. It is vital for all stages of growth due to its involvement in cell division, particularly in development.Signs result of potassium deficiency are the patches of older leaves with yellow spots between the veins, dark yellow for younger leaves, flowers and fruit drop. As a warning, cheat potassium deficiency as the plants grow and look healthy.