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Garden Fertilizer

  • Do all plants need additional fertilizer? Brent Crain from Michigan State University Extension says, "The best thing to do is to get a soil test. And that's where you send in a soil test sample, and you find out what's going on in the nutrients in your soil. And that's the best way to guide when to add fertilizer."
  • The Ecology Center and the Sierra Club had nine types of bagged fertilizer tested for PFAS. Eight had between 14 to 20 detectable kinds of PFAS. The…