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June 11, 1890
The Florida Agriculturist
Jacksonville, De Land, Duval County, Volusia County, Florida
What is this article about?
Article from Vick's Magazine explains that garden vegetables require manure for sufficient nitrogen, as atmospheric sources provide negligible amounts, emphasizing dependency on soil nutrients for productive crops.
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Manure for Garden Vegetables.
It is entirely fallacious to suppose that garden crops, whether flowers, fruit or vegetable, gain a large amount of nitrogenous plant food from atmospheric sources by means of this extended leaf surface. The quantity of combined nitrogen brought to the soil and growing plants by rain water and the atmosphere is so inconsiderable an amount, when compared with the whole weight required by the crop, that we may fairly say no plants are more dependent on nitrogen in an available condition within the soil than are garden vegetables. No matter how good the normal condition of the soil may be, it will not long produce paying crops of vegetables or even fruit, without manure. Certain it is that if a garden will not pay with liberal manuring, it will not pay without it.
—Vick's Magazine.
It is entirely fallacious to suppose that garden crops, whether flowers, fruit or vegetable, gain a large amount of nitrogenous plant food from atmospheric sources by means of this extended leaf surface. The quantity of combined nitrogen brought to the soil and growing plants by rain water and the atmosphere is so inconsiderable an amount, when compared with the whole weight required by the crop, that we may fairly say no plants are more dependent on nitrogen in an available condition within the soil than are garden vegetables. No matter how good the normal condition of the soil may be, it will not long produce paying crops of vegetables or even fruit, without manure. Certain it is that if a garden will not pay with liberal manuring, it will not pay without it.
—Vick's Magazine.
What sub-type of article is it?
Agricultural Advice
What keywords are associated?
Manure
Garden Vegetables
Nitrogen
Soil Fertility
Atmospheric Nitrogen
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Story Details
Garden crops, including vegetables, flowers, and fruit, do not gain significant nitrogen from atmospheric sources via leaves or rain; they depend on available nitrogen in the soil provided by manure to produce paying crops, as even good soil depletes without it.