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As temperatures soar this summer, your plants probably look like they’re no longer speaking to you: their leaves start wilting, the tips curl up, the edges turn brown and crisp. SOS! These are all signs that your plants are in distress.
Your first instinct might be to reach for the fertilizer to perk them up—a boost of nutrients can only help, right?
But in really hot weather, you’d actually be doing more harm than good.
During periods of drought or heat stress, fertilizing your plants is generally a bad idea.
So is fertilizing them when they’re dormant—you may already know that plants don’t need fertilizer in winter when they aren’t actively growing, but extreme heat (combined with glaring sun, drying winds, and lack of soaking rains) can cause summer dormancy as well.
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