To keep your landscape beautiful and healthy you need to fertilize your plants, trees and lawn. Fertilizers contain nutrients that are vital to healthy plant development. Often our soil does not contain adequate amounts of these nutrients. Fertilizer is a way of boosting the soil’s nutrients and offering them to the plant’s roots. You can fertilize your own landscape. There’s no need to hire a company. It’s easy and requires only a few pieces of equipment.•Understand what fertilizer is comprised of. Every bag of fertilizer displays three numbers which indicate the amount of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. For example, if your lawn fertilizer displays the numbers 23-9-13, the bag contains 23% nitrogen, 9% phosphorous, and 13% potassium, respectively. Nitrogen is responsible f