What does nitrogen do to help plants?

Answer 1

It helps with plant growth and the green color you see. Be careful in its use as too much of a good thing will burn (kill) your plants. Different plants respond differently to nitrogen fertilizer.
For example, the corn you see growing in the countryside in the summer months loves the stuff. Soybeans don't respond like corn does to a direct application. They (soybean plants) have nodules on the roots of the plants that convert nitrogen from the air we breathe into a useful form, as well as leaving this residue behind for say example next years corn crop on this same land.
Soybeans and legume type plants prefer residual fertilizer over a direct application. Too much nitrogen can cause alot of quick plant growth on some plants and result in poor fruit and or seed production because of this.
The pretty green lawns you see in your neighborhoods were probably treated with a mostly nitrogen fertilizer to get the grass to grow more uniform and pretty green. Hope this helps you understand a little. From a lifetime midwest farmer.

Answer 2

There is no such thing as a nitrogen hating plant. All plants use nitrogen as a part of their metabolism. However, the picture is a bit more complex than than. Plants must also have the proper PH and I would suspect that coffee grounds might cause harm to more sensitive plants if you just dump them directly in your garden. The nitrogen also needs to be in a form than can be readily absorbed by the plant. This is what composting of pretty much any organic matter does. It breaks it down so the plants can use the goodies. The thing to watch out for is that the composting process itself can deplete the surrounding soil of nutrients even though the end result is a nice nitrogen rich compost that plants will love. If I were you I would add the coffee grounds to your compost pile rather than directly to your garden and add in the composted material each time you turn your soil in preparation for the next planting.

Answer 3

Nitrogen is a part of all living cells and is a necessary part of all proteins, enzymes and metabolic processes involved in the synthesis and transfer of energy.
Nitrogen is a part of chlorophyll, the green pigment of the plant that is responsible for photosynthesis.
Helps plants with rapid growth, increasing seed and fruit production and improving the quality of leaf and forage crops.
Nitrogen often comes from fertilizer application and from the air (legumes get their N from the atmosphere, water or rainfall contributes very little nitrogen)

Answer 4

Nitrogen is one of the nutrients that allows plants to grow their leaves. If you put too much nitrogen in the soil for pepper plants you will get very big pepper plants but few peppers. If, on the other hand, you put a lot of nitrogen in the soil for something like lettuce or cabbage (plants that you eat the leaves of) you should do rather well.

Answer 5

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What does nitrogen do to help plants?

Answer 6

It aids in cellular respiration and in chlorophyl synthesis, and in all plant growth .. it is as important as protein to humans..

Answer 7

IS THE FOOD FOR PLANT

Answer 8

keeps them green

Answer 9

the same thing oxygen does for you.