Growers Daily Should a Flower Grower Use Synthetic Fertilizers + What Meta Stole from Farmers
Welcome to episode 251 of Growers Daily!
We cover: we are taking a question from a flower grower wondering about synthetic fertilizers to address soil deficiencies, meta pirating farm books for AI, and it's feedback Friday.
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microplastics from Polymers affects on soil life and metals: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929139322003109
Meta steals books: https://authorsguild.org/news/meta-libgen-ai-training-book-heist-what-authors-need-to-know/#:~:text=Today%2C%20The%20Atlantic%20published%20a,Why?
Book Lookup site: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
Good Garlic Growing Guide: https://growingformarket.com/articles/garlic-planting#:~:text=Plant%20garlic%20in%20the%20fall%20for%20best,early%20spring%20but%20yields%20will%20be%20smaller.
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