Her wide-ranging experience includes extension service, landscape design and greenhouse production. She is the former owner and operator of Rebecca Farm Nursery in Southern Wisconsin and currently resides in Fort Collins Colorado. When faced with such a large selection try to keep these questions in mind.
Lets start with the first three questions.
You also need to know what it is you want from your plants. Plants need 16 essential nutrients for growth. Three of these, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are supplied by air and water. The next three nutrients needed in fairly large quantities nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. We will cover phosphorus and potassium in future articles.