what are the three nutrients in soil?
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If you mean what the numbers on a bag of fertilizer mean, it's nitrogen, phospherus and potassium, in that order.
Other answers:
clay,silicon,sodium besides many more
clay,silicon,sodium besides many more
There are quite a few trace elements. You may be asking the three nutrients in fertilizer to spur plant growth. Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium.
From Wikipedia: "
Fertilizers or fertilisers are compounds given to plants with the intention of promoting growth; they are usually applied either via the soil, for uptake by plant roots, or by foliar spraying, for uptake through leaves. Fertilizers can be organic (composed of organic matter, i.e. carbon based), or inorganic (containing simple, inorganic chemicals). They can be naturally-occurring compounds such as peat or mineral deposits, or manufactured through natural processes (such as composting) or chemical processes (such as the Haber process).
Fertilizers typically provide, in varying proportions, the three major plant nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium), the secondary plant nutrients (calcium, sulfur, magnesium), and sometimes trace elements (or micronutrients) with a role in plant nutrition: boron, manganese, iron, zinc, copper and molybdenum
nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium/... Your fertilizers will be sold in that order. best allaround is 10-10-10 get it cheap at all feed mills. But you need to check your ph level, thats corrected with lime. You can buy a simple test kit to check all of this at most home stores, I just bought one at menards for $15 at it tests everything and has enough chemicals for 40 tests. Take your results to a feed mill and they can tell you what you need depending on what your trying to grow. Hey they been doing this for farmers for hundreds of years. They do know what there doing.