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Beets, High Blood Pressure & Nitrogen

Stephen Brookes

Is it the nitrogen content that makes beet juice beneficial to battling hypertension? Can you grow a beet crop without nitrogen fertilizer? An interesting project involving beets, high blood pressure, and a harvest with the lowest nitrogen content possible. By the end of this article, you might well be wondering about the possibilities of adjusting…

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Nitrogen Changes Potting Mix pH

Container gardeners might want to pay closer attention to the type of nitrogen in their fertilizer – it can actually change your potting mix pH. Things like minerals in your tap water, or the amount of limestone in the growing media in a given pot can affect pH levels in any growing media, but nitrogen? Yes. Both the…
October 1, 2016
Tammy Clayton