Gardening in Alaska: It may make sense to use organic fertilizers to foster vegetable growth, but chemical fertilizers aren’t beneficial.
I pointed out last week that all area lawns are now green whether or not they have been laced with chemical fertilizers. How many times do you have to prove to yourself that lawns don’t need fertilizer? Even applying organic ones may be overkill.
We had no idea these fertilizers operate to the detriment of Mother Nature’s natural system, the soil food web. In the end, application of fertilizers reduces the impact of soil microbes and your lawn can’t green up without more fertilizers. It’s the trap Scotts and others want you to enter. Of course, if you are still using chemical fertilizers, stop. Now is a good time as undoubtedly rain will keep your lawn green for the rest of the season. Meanwhile, leave the clippings after every mowing and mulch the leaves when they fall. Ample microbial life will return and you will never need fertilizers again.
Of course, in the old days compost and manures were applied to vegetable gardens. Magazines like Rodale’s didn’t discuss it because people didn’t understand what it was, but compost supports a healthy microbial population and a good soil food web. No wonder nothing else was needed. And the same is true today.
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