Sentences with phrase «applying organic nitrogen»

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While organic gardeners concede the point that most compost is low in soluble nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous, Jack Ruttle observes: «I have grown many fine vegetable gardens with no other fertilizer than an inch or two of pure compost applied once a year, and I have known plenty of other gardeners who do the same.»

Thirty years after synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizer had been applied to crops in 1982, about 15 per cent of the fertilizer N still remained in soil organic matter, the scientists found.

As a long time organic gardener myself as one of my hobbies, I do apply some 10 kg organic fertilizer per year per 100 m2 in my garden, of which some 5 % is nitrogen (as nitrate).