Jim Zamzow shows you how to spoon feed your plants fertilizer for maximum harvest. Jim shows you how to use a granular fertilizers, and chemical fertilizers. He also shows you how to apply side dressing and how to hill the corn. Remember that nutrients can absorbed through a plants leaf up to a 100x's more effectively.

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Jim’s Garden Tip is brought to you by Zamzows, nobody knows like Zamzows. A garden requires summer maintenance, weeding, cultivating, thinning, and probably most importantly is spoon feeding your garden for best harvests. Today, I’ll show you several ways to feed your garden during the season for the very best yields. First, I’m going to demonstrate to you how to spoon feed the plant using a granular fertilizer. So, around these peppers, I’m just going to pull a little trench. Less than inch is so deep. And when I’m using a good quality organic fertilizer, I’ll use two teaspoons around each plant. If I’m going to use a chemical fertilizer, then I’ll just use one or I just sprinkle that lightly around and I just pull the dirt back over, water it in and you’re in good business. When it comes to row crops such as corn, we do what’s called side dressing which is just putting our fertilizer right along the side of the row then I just take my hoe. I do what’s called healing the corn, pulling the dirt from the middle of the row or up. Now, another way to do it is to feed with a liquid. You just put a good liquid fertilizer into your sprinkling can. I like to put a couple of ounces per gallon and then you just pour it right alongside of the row. Another way of fertilizing is through the foliage. A lot of people don’t realize that nutrients can be absorbed through the leaves of the plant up to a hundred times more effectively than they can through the roots. I would recommend that you follow your freedom. You can do that as a couple of different ways. If you’ve got a small garden, measure it, and put it in a little hand sprayer, just spray until your plants are done. Now, if you’ve got a larger garden, these hose-end sprayers work really well and just spray all of your plants until they’re damp. If you’ll do that every couple of weeks, I’ll assure you, you’ll have bigger blooms and bigger, sweeter fruit. Join me next week and I’ll show you how to thin and prune your garden for best production.