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Jacky Parker

5 Things Expert Vegetable Growers Know to Do to Keep Your Soil Rich and Garden Crops Abundant

A large, vegetable garden in the backyard.

Knowing how to fertilize vegetable beds properly, as nature intended, will help you yield better and bigger crops. These simple ideas will improve soil diversity and in turn the health of your plants. This will ultimately result in more vegetables with less effort.

'We have long been conditioned to believe that NPK fertilizer is the source of plant vitality,' says gardener, Tony O'Neill, author, Simplify Vegetable Gardening. 'However, there is growing evidence that plants have well-developed strategies to recruit microorganisms to bring them the nutrients they need.

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