Garden Fertilisers

Why You'll Love Yates' Range of Garden Fertilisers

No matter how well you tend to your plants they still need nutrients to grow, produce, and thrive. Adding fertiliser provides your plants with essential nutrients and trace elements to encourage lush leaves, healthy roots, well-formed flowers and fruit, and maintain optimal health.

What Should I Look for in Fertiliser?

Fertilisers usually contain three main ingredients: nitrogen (N) to help develop strong roots and growth; phosphorus (P) to encourage flowering or fruiting; and potassium (K) to help resist disease and strengthen overall plant quality.

Slow-release fertilisers release nutrients into the soil over a matter of weeks and months until they’re absorbed by plants. Controlled-release fertilisers have a balanced release of nutrients, depending on soil temperature, for when the plants need it.

Some fertilisers are best applied to the soil before planting to ensure optimum soil quality, while some should be added while a plant is growing to give it nutrients during its life.

Yates’ range of fertilisers come in a variety of formats including pellets, manure, liquid concentrate, hose-on applications, drippers and spikes, so there’s something to suit every type of garden, pot, plant or situation.

Which Fertiliser Should I Choose?

Organic-based fertilisers contain organic matter which not only feed plants, but also improve soil condition, providing important nutrition for worms and soil microorganisms.

Fertilisers that are certified for use in organic gardens, such as Yates Dynamic Lifter have gone through a certifying process to ensure all ingredients are manufactured or sourced free from synthetic herbicides, pesticides and hormones according to an organic standard.

Speciality fertilisers contain certain ingredients at specific levels which help maximise plant yield, and encourage the growth of specialty plants. Yates has a wide range of fertilisers suited for vegetables and herbs, fruiting shrubs and trees, Australian native plants, flowering plants, indoor plants, and orchids. So, there really is something for every type of plant.

For more information on garden fertilisers go to What Are Garden Fertilisers & Why Do I Need to Feed My Plants?.