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Why do annuals and perennials have special fertilizing needs when plants in nature get along without it?

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Why do annuals and perennials have special fertilizing needs when plants in nature get along without it?

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In nature, plants rely on sunlight, rain and the nutrients in the soil. Nature limits the types and numbers of plants by the relative amounts of these basics available. In our landscapes, we grow many plants together with differing requirements, often in a variety of types of soil, surrounded with competing grass. If they are to thrive, we have to supplement what nature can provide. What makes fertilizing annuals and perennials any different than fertilizing any other plants? In our climate, all plants are either herbaceous or woody. Woody plants have parts (such as trunks, branches, twigs, and in some cases evergreen needles or leaves) that live from season to season. These give them a big head start each year. Herbaceous plants do not have that advantage. They start from the soil line in spring and die back to the ground in fall. That means they have to expend a tremendous amount of energy during the growing season to produce all those stems and leaves and to help them out, we need t

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