In the UK, the winter months of December, January and February are cold and dark. There can be as little as 8 hours of daylight per day, and most of this can clouded over. Many plants hibernate through the winter because it is not worth them trying to make food. Trees drop their leaves and herbaceous plants die… Read More »
Nitrogen is the most abundant chemical in the earth’s atmosphere, making up 78% of the air that we breathe. However the vast majority of this is in a gaseous form, which cannot be utilised by plants. Plants can only use a “fixed” form of nitrogen in the soil. In nature, plant and animal waste deposited into the soil… Read More »
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