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Organic fertilizer
From my research of people's opinion, the best organic food for the veggie garden is brewed compost teas. My problem is that I have a plot away from home so lifting tea is too much work for a bad back and there is no where to brew it at the site. So I was curious what everyone's favorite food/fertilizer is for the garden, especially tomatoes? Thanks all!
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How do you water your garden? Why can't you make the tea there? You can either use a battery aerator, they make them for fisherman or you can make non aerated tea. It works just fine.
For organic fertilizer, I use fish emulsion in my miracle grow sprayer. You can also used aged manures, blood meal, bone meal, or kelp meal. Sustain is a granular organic fertilizer 4-6-4 is a general purpose fertilizer that is omni rated.
it is mostly fish meal.
Some people use azomite, as it improves root development
I have also used Scott's organic lawn fertilizer NPK 11-2-2 . Based on my soil test I do not need phosphorus, potassium or calcium. Just nitrogen. This product has one of the highest nitrogen ratings next to blood meal.
For organic fertilizer, I use fish emulsion in my miracle grow sprayer. You can also used aged manures, blood meal, bone meal, or kelp meal. Sustain is a granular organic fertilizer 4-6-4 is a general purpose fertilizer that is omni rated.
it is mostly fish meal.
Some people use azomite, as it improves root development
I have also used Scott's organic lawn fertilizer NPK 11-2-2 . Based on my soil test I do not need phosphorus, potassium or calcium. Just nitrogen. This product has one of the highest nitrogen ratings next to blood meal.
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I used to use fish emulsion but that was recently taken off the organic list and it makes my garden smell funny. I like to use Liquid Kelp and this stuff called Earth Juice Grow. You use a splash per gallon of water. I also have gotten this seabird guano stuff - Peruvian Seabird Guano and this is really high (12-11-2) but everything LOVES it. I will use the kelp and earth juice about once a month - they're both light fertilizers. The Peruvian Seabird Guano I will just use once unless something really needs it as it packs a powerful punch.
It used to be labeled as organic but now it isn't anymore because it is no longer considered organic. Maybe it is different brands. But I know the brand I used to buy - I think it was called Alaskan or something like that - had a note that it no longer could be labeled organic. It says on the label not to be used if you want to use it for organic gardening.Decado wrote:What do you mean fish emulsion was taken off the organic list?
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That's interesting. I use Alaska 5-1-1 and it still has the OMRI label. Was the note pertaining to OMRI or another certifying agency? I live in CA, so it's possible there's something your state's agency believes that mine does not. I would be interested to know more.RogueRose wrote:It used to be labeled as organic but now it isn't anymore because it is no longer considered organic. Maybe it is different brands. But I know the brand I used to buy - I think it was called Alaskan or something like that - had a note that it no longer could be labeled organic. It says on the label not to be used if you want to use it for organic gardening.Decado wrote:What do you mean fish emulsion was taken off the organic list?
However, that brand in particular is currently listed on the OMRI Products List:
https://www.omri.org/simple-opl-search/r ... er%205-1-1
https://www.omri.org/manufacturers/65436 ... ler-brands
This is OMRI's current postion on Stabilised Liquid Fish: Allowed. (some formulations are allowed with restrictions). Read more about it here:
https://www.omri.org/simple-gml-search/r ... stabilized
It could be my state. Although CA is usually pretty on top of things. These folks on this forum are discussing what I saw on my label a couple years ago: https://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/loa ... 341.html?6
Maybe they changed their formula
Maybe they changed their formula