Question on feeding plants

[FairyDust]

I put in a bunch of plants this year. Hydrangea, azaleas, hostas, columbines, heather, dahlias, chamomile, ajuga, liriopes, lenten roses, honeysuckle, english lavender, munstead lavender, bleeding heart, a fern (can't remember the name off the top of my head), double impatiens in hanging baskets, etc.

I bought a bottle of fish emulsion when I first started buying the plants. After I'd plant anything I'd water them with the fish emulsion in the water. The directions say to water with it every week, I've been doing it every other week. It's a 5-1-1. Will I need to give them anything else this summer? The azaleas say to put azalea food during late summer, but if I use compost this fall and I'm using this fish fertilizer right now every other week, will I need to buy azalea food anyway?

I don't want to overfeed them all and I don't want to underfeed them either. Everything is donig fantastic right now and I just wanna keep it that way. Another thread I read in the organic gardening section made me wonder if I'm doing this properly or not.

[opabinia51]

Other than having your garden smell like dead fish, you can't really over feed your plants with organic ammendments. You might want to use some liquid fish fertilizer as well.

[lovetogarden]

Using a high nitorgen fertlilizer on flowering plants may inhibit flower formation. Most ornamental flowering plants are very light feeders as you are not removing parts of the plant to eat. Once or twice fertilizing is usually enough for the season. Also,flowering plants have higher phosphous and potassium needs than nitrogen needs. I would find a fertlizer with higher numbers of these nutrients than nitrogen. Seaweed is a good choice.

[opabinia51]

Great thanks for the advice!