Growing Nutrient-Dense Vegetables on the Cheap

Reader Contribution by David The Good
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I come from the old “add compost and manure and it’ll fly!” school of gardening. In the past when I felt really fancy I’d also throw in stuff like bone meal, blood meal, or lime. Then a friend told me to try fish emulsion and I discovered plants loved it. I also discovered that Epsom salts will make plants happy quickly, thanks to the magnesium and sulfur.

Mostly, though, I concentrated on getting my plants the big three: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK). I figured if my compost had a bunch of stuff in it, the plants would likely find the micronutrients they needed.

Then I read Steve Solomon and Erica Reinheimer’s book The Intelligent Gardener and readjusted my thinking.

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