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From your experience, what type of plants work best with organic fertilizer and as with inorganic?
Question Date: 2017-01-13
Answer 1:

Plants need nutrients (nitrogen, magnesium, phosphorous, sulfur), and get them from the soil. These nutrients are not bound up with carbon while in the soil - thus, they are already inorganic. Organic material - containing carbon - the plants make from carbon dioxide in the air.



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