SHOULD YOU FERTILIZE SEEDLINGS? A SOIL SCIENTISTS OPINION ON WHEN AND HOW TO FERTILIZE SEEDLINGS 🌱

As a soil scientist I often hear the question, is using fertilizer with seedlings worth it? The only way to answer the question about using fertilizer with seeds is through the science of soil. A great garden begins with fertilized seedlings. the stronger our seedlings are the greater chance we have with transplanting and ultimately end yields. So what is the best way to achieve this and does it involve fertilizing when the seedling is still young.

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Ashley is an agronomist who has had a passion for plants since she was a small child. In the long summers as a child, she would garden alongside her grandmother and it was then that she realized her love for greenery. With years of great studying, Ashley had begun her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan.
 At first, her second love, animals, was the career path she chose but while doing her undergrad she realized that her education would take her elsewhere. And with that, four years later she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in science and a major in Soil Science. 
Some of Ashley’s interests are YouTube, in which she posts informative videos about plants and gardening. The focus of Ashley’s YouTube channel is to bring science to gardening in a way that is informative but also helpful to others learning to garden. She also talks about the importance of having your own garden and the joys of gardening indoors. Ashley continues to study plants in her free time and hopes to expand her YouTube channel as well as her reach to up and coming gardeners. 

Intro 0:00
Debate On Fertilizing seedlings 2:27
Seedling Deficiency Signs 2:56
When not to fertilize 4:37
Trial Data: 6:46
Best Time To Start fertilizing 7:20
Fertilizer Type 8:40
Fertilizer needs 10:20
Benefits of fertilizing seedlings 11:30
Soil pH 12:15

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