The Grass Doctor

will fertilizing my yard harm my vegetable garden?

I need to fertilize my yard due to many weeds in our area from some wetlands. I just planted a raised bed vegetable garden and don't want to eat the fertilizer I use on my lawn. should I stop fertilizing or is it okay? My neighbors fertilize, will that seep into my garden as well??

Public Comments

1. Are you sure you don't mean 'pesticide'? A fertile earth means the ground is filled with organic substances that the plants absorb. Anything is will be harmful. Think organic, anything other than organics are bad. Instead of being a lazy shmuck you could just get a weed remover tool. All it is is a small piece of metal that you use to jab straight into the weed, you can drag the weed right out if you do it right. Poison isn't the way to go. Remember, after the poison goes into the Earth it gets into the water, you drink that water.
2. if you appy fertilizer to the earth, the low ground, it wont seep UP into your raised planters. The roots would have to grow all the way down.
3. Anything that you buy from the supermarket is fertilized, pesticized, and all sorts of other ungodly "ized". I use Mericle grow twice a month on my garden and I eat everything I grow.
4. Just use a natural fertilizer. I recommend using Bill's Perfect Lawn Fertilizer from Spray-N-Grow ( http://www.spray-n-growgardening.com ). It's organic and contains composted chicken manure, bone meal, iron and other natural ingredients.