Quote Originally Posted by blaze View Post
I read or heard somewhere that Scott's of one of the home fertilizer manufacturers has taken the prosperous out of their products. Nitrates are what doom the waters wells here if they are in the vicinity of wheat fields where they commonly use stinky anhydrous ammonia for nitrogen.
Nitrates is what's left after bacteria eat the nitrogen. Nitrogen as Dave said is easy to get rid of it's that pesky bi-product nitrate that is hard to get rid of. The bacteria that eats Nitrates is aerobic and takes a while to develop because oxygen is rather hard to avoid, so to speak.