To improve the quality of your soil, you can continue to improve your plots and vegetable plots using manure, compost or even green manure. This practice provides nutrients to your soil and improves the texture of your soil, which is often compacted by rain and the cold of winter.
That said, in these times, you also need to think about feeding your plants, using a very specific type of fertilizer: urea. It is a combination of chemical and organic substances that has managed to attract the attention of gardeners and farmers!
How to use urea on plants?
Urea is a true ally for all types of soil, but to get the most out of it you need to know when and how to use it.
Urea: characteristics and composition
If you don’t know, dear readers, urea is an organic fertilizer beneficial for soil and plants, because it improves them by providing them with nitrogen. Although it is sold in dry, granular form, it is important to understand how to use urea correctly to avoid potential downsides and reap the full benefits. But first of all, don’t you think it would be more useful to know the characteristics and composition of this fertilizer? Let’s go discover it together!
Urea is a chemical compound with odorless white or yellow crystals.
It is a concentrated mineral supplement with a high nitrogen content reaching 46%.
Urea offers optimal solubility with low risk of leaching.
Its slow degradability combined with high mobility makes it a very effective fertilizer.
1 kg of urea is equivalent to 3 kg of sodium nitrate or 2.25 kg of ammonium sulfate.
Its acidifying effect is significantly lower than that of ammonium sulfate, making it ideal for sandy and loamy soils.
Without sulfuric acid salts, the chlorine present in urea even has a beneficial effect on microbiological processes.
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