Water with plain water first before fertilizing?

[K-Sci]

Originally Posted by Roberta

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Mother Nature knows best!

Setting aside the question about rates, frequency and dilution, you've hit on one of my pet peeves. Natural conditions are rarely ideal. Mother Nature gives plants what they needed to survive and reproduce. For every plant that survives to reproduce in the natural environment, vastly more die before getting there. Many species are barely surviving even in their pristine natural environment. Billions went extinct because Mother Nature didn't meet even their basic needs.

We cultivate and fertilize lawns, gardens, and crops giving them comparatively huge amounts of nutrients because we need them to grow a lot better than they do nature.

-Keith