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).
Not exact matches
However, 32 to 37
per cent of the
fertilizer N remained in the soil
organic matter in 1985 or three years after application, while 12 to 15
per cent still lingered in the soils after three decades.
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.