Bio fertilizer
matt9608670
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Hello fellow
gardening enthsiasts!
We, as students of the Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Venlo, the Netherlands are highly interested in your opinion regarding the future of fertilizer.
The survey we have prepared will help us conduct research on this topic and will not be shared with external sources.
Our group would be very thankful for each reply we can get. Thanks for your time and for helping us making the world a more sustainable place!
The link to our survey:
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I can only select one of these options on your survey
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I also agree re the point about only being able to select one choice in questions. Very few people will only use one type of fertiliser, regardless of what they grow.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
’do you use fertiliser’
No.
next question, ‘which one’
So can’t submit that.
I've never heard of any of those fertilisers.
The problem with simple tick-box surveys like these is that it’s difficult to select a response in any accurate or meaningful way. Most people use from nothing at all to a whole variety of different products, possibly a mix of both artificial and ‘bio’, at different times of the year and at different frequencies for different plants and purposes, depending on their specific soil and growing conditions.
It would have been helpful to define ‘bio’ too. In my book that means any natural/organic fertilisers derived from rocks, animals and plants rather than an artificial chemical fertiliser synthesised in a lab. So that would encompass alfalfa pellets, homemade compost, leaf mould, animal manures, seaweed extract, rock minerals, sand, grit, pumice, FBB, comercial compost, peat, woody mulches etc.
The environmental impact of something labelled ‘bio’ is not necessarily low, quite the opposite in some cases. I could slather my beds in peat and smugly tick the bio box!