In this video, I share the ugly truth about fertilizers you need to hear now! Spring fertilizing season is here, but some gardeners are resistant to applying fertilizers. This video discusses the truth about fertilizers, confronts controversial myths, and explains why compost and fertilizer are often not interchangeable in your vegetable garden.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Intro To Fertilizer Myths And Truths
1:14 2 Reasons Gardeners Avoid Using Fertilizer
1:52 Do Gardens Need Fertilizer? Is Permaculture Real?
4:46 Why Vegetable Gardens Are Often NOT Sustainable
8:15 Can I Use Just Compost & No Fertilizer In A Garden?
9:25 Why Compost Is An Inefficient Way To Fertilize
12:46 How To Fertilize A Garden For Free (Almost)
14:49 Why You Must Fertilize A Container Garden
17:07 Adventures With Dale

If you have any questions about how to fertilize vegetable gardens and how to fertilize fruit trees, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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Southern Ag Natural Pyrethrin Concentrate https://amzn.to/2UHSNGE
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Location: Southeastern NC, Brunswick County (Wilmington area)
34.1°N Latitude
Zone 8A

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