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Today's episode is fertilizing your garden without animal products.

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advance and thank you for subscribing and for listening. When it comes to human nutrition, the bottom line is the nutrients we need are plant-based.

In the case of B12, it's bacteria-based, but none of the nutrients we require are animal-based.

When it comes to healthy soil, the same is true.

The nutrients that plants need come from the ground, not animals.

Aside from secondary and trace nutrients,

the three major plant nutrients are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, often expressed as

NPK. N for nitrogen, P for phosphorus, and K for potassium, referring to its Latin name on the periodic table,

Calium, K-A-L-I-U-M.

Now because these are the main nutrients needed for growth and people buy commercial

fertilizer to promote growth, on every box of fertilizer you will see those three numbers you'll see 2466 for instance you'll see 10

3 3 for instance right usually a dash in between. This refers to the fact that that particular

fertilizer contains by weight, in this case, let's say 2466. It would be 24% nitrogen by weight, 6% phosphorus by weight, and 6% potassium.

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