Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we're talking about an

essential micronutrient that your plants need that you may be forgetting about. Now if you haven't already seen it there is

quite an awesome article on the site about plant nutrients and it goes over

every different

essential macro and micro nutrients are covered there

but today we're going to talk about sulfur.

So sulfur. So sulfur is again it's an essential micronutrient and if your

plants don't have it they they cannot survive, it's typically a rare deficiency because plants don't need much of it and

it's also hard to spot. The easiest way to solve this problem though is to side dress your beds with sulfur.

So all you really do is you add a line of fertilizer alongside the stem of the plant or plants or maybe the row that is deficient in

sulfur. Just go one on the right side, one on the left side of the stem a few inches away and then gently water it so you can start working that mineral down into the soil.

So anytime you think your plants are deficient in sulfur, is a good time again to side dress with sulfur.

That sounds a little bit nonsensical or obvious, but sometimes we need a little simple reminders like that.

So a good time, when should you actually do this?

If you're going to use sulfate fertilizers in the spring,

well that's probably a good time to side dress with sulfur.

It's best to use sulfate and not elemental sulfur because elemental sulfur needs to be used as basically a finely ground powder that's hard to apply and

is not very water soluble so it's just not the best form for plants to absorb

they're going to use it in the sulfate form anyways.

One thing that you can do is do a nitrogen and sulfate combination fertilizer

because oftentimes if your plant is deficient in sulfur it's probably deficient in nitrogen as well.

So that is a quick little episode on side dressing with sulfur.

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