Which Organic Fertilizer Should You Buy for Your Vegetable Garden: Don't Get Fooled or Ripped Off!
Which Organic Fertilizer Should You Buy for Your Vegetable Garden: Don't Get Fooled or Ripped Off!
All organic granular fertilizer are pretty much made up of the same basic ingredients. Don’t over pay per pound and there is absolutely no need to buy different fertilizers for different flowers and vegetables.
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When I buy organic fertilizers its whatevers on sale and whatever has a slightly higher potassium ratio because I grow a lot of stuff that needs a extra bit of potassium.
I am mostly moving towards full synthetic due to massive cost savings its a lot cheaper and is just as good and most of the time i have micronutrients in various synthetic blends that organics just dont have. I ran into chasing a lot of nutrient deficiencies with organic fertilizers and trying to identify which nutrient was short and correcting it and then getting another problem.
You don’t have to be a mad scientist, lol
Hi! By mistake I bought 10-5-10 (2 LARGE bags) fertilizer. Since I don’t want to waste, will my flowering perennials/annuals benefit or be hindered by my applying it? THANKS!!!
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Maybe I need to start selling 💩 from my chickens & rabbits
Many will say non-burning organic fertilizer. Then I add 1Tbs, instantly locks out my plants turning them yellow or it completely burns them!
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Good video. I buy a 40 pound bag of alfalfa pellets for $22 at a home garden center which has an NPK of 2.5-0.5-2.5. It can be used with vegetable plants and on the lawn. Like you say, all the products you show are expensive and pretty much the same. Some people use dried dog food.
Organic fertilizers work slowly, how slow depends on the fertilizer and they improve your soil. Chemical fertilizers work fast but do nothing to improve the soil. After decades of use they can increased nitrate levels (salts). You can also use composted cow manure which has an NPK of .5-.5-.5 and costs about $3 for a 40 pound bag.
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Fort organic chicken manure. Where do you source it that it doesn’t have any pesticides chemicals in the manure itself?
FYI blueberries can’t uptake nitrogen nitrates fertilizer. Ammonium sulfate 21-0-0 is good for blueberries and helps with keeping ph down.
Some plants are very fertilizer specific some don’t really care.
I use liquid Neptune’s fish and seaweed with unsulfured Blackstrap molasses.
Had up to six feet of growth from my apple trees last year.
Dr earth is 3.5 per pound. Espoma is 3.75 per pound
Another thing to keep in mind is for the vegan gardner, there are varieties that use kelp meal…BUT please understand that kelp meal is definitely not a complete fertalizer. And it’s incredibly expensive. Manure, compost…all these things are not necessarily fertilizers. They help the soil microbiome….same thing with these products. These are NOT immediately avaiable to your plants…really these are foods for your soil fauna to eat…poop out…THEN it’s in a form that is available for your plant.
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I just bought some dr earth to give life to my potting soil from last year in my pepper pots and added compost. The compost didn’t have any analysis on it as far as an npk or anything but it did have composted chicken manure in it so I combined it with dr. Earth and my old potting soil.
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Sooooo many people do not understand "omri certified organic" and "organic" i appreciate you constantly doing your best to remind folks if it was ever alive its "organic" but not necessarily pesticide free orgnic per se…
I tend to use bone and blood meal and topping with good compost. I will use some fish emulsion for a little boost.
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Gary how about fish emulsion does it work well
You are right "however" Higher nitrogen for vegetative stage , and higher phosphorous for bloom is a proven fact if you want better results . it’s common sense if you need 2 bags to finish the season to buy two different NPK’s if they are the same price and or brand .
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I use chicken and rabbit poop from my chickens and rabbits. It’s what I have and what I can afford
This is mostly true. Key word mostly. Research every plant you grow and you’ll find some require specialized nutrients and soil conditions. However you definitely don’t need a single fertilizer for every type of plant. My blueberries are very finicky in my area and require a ton of berry specific fertilizer with high acidity and elemental sulfur to keep acidity up. If I put that on all my plants I would end up with half my garden dead. I recommend just getting a general even fertilizer and then some for each stage of a plants life, growth flower and rooting. Then if you have special cases get those and they will last you a long time seeing as you only use them a couple times at most
The exception you this is fertilizer for acid loving plants. You need the sulfur to keep the PH down
You did a video about this same thing maybe a couple of years ago, and it was a game changer for me. I just buy whatever is cheapest and on sale, no matter what the label says it is. Thanks for doing this again.
Love your channel. My garden is more successful every season, largely due to your info. I’m trying to incorporate rabbit manure into my fertilizing routine. I know the NPK of the pure manure, but I’m having difficulty finding the proper ratio to make tea. I compost it and make my own potting soil, but I’d like to use it in addition as a liquid fertilizer throughout the season. If you could recommend a couple reliable resources I could check out, I’d be so greatful 🙏
What an excellent informative video. Thank you so much for taking the time. I was literally adding all this stuff individually and my Amazon cart makes so much more sense to purchase just one large bag. Thanks for your time phenomenal information here.
I like the doctor earth but I only really buy what’s on clearance at the end of the year. If its there I look for it, I don’t really like granular fertilizers, don’t know why honestly I guess I just like how finer powders spread.
I do really like esponia bone meal.
I wonder if you can help me, Gary. I live in a cold climate so im trying to grow dwarf tomatoes, cucumbers and herbs indoor using shop lights and a south facing sunny window. I would like to fertilize my plants organically however i heard that i cannot bring compost or composted manure indoors due to insects and pathogens. I also heard that there is no soil life in indoor potting mixes so organic nutrients would not be bio available for the plants. I am doomed to only use chemical soluble fertilizers?
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Here in Illinois we have ‘Chic N Poo ‘ at $11 for 25 lb bag. At 2-4-3 there’s no danger of burning your plants. Works fine.
I’ve never looked at these ingredients, but I, too, buy Espoma. I always wondered why it tinks so much…chicken manure.
Nice info!
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The only exception might be the Berry Fertilizers that often contain peletized sulfur.
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Garden tone is what I stick to. Just under $29 for 27lbs.
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It would be interesting to send these to a lab for a test to see if they are really selling what they claim they are.
Coop Poop fertilizer is cheaper and will do the job perfectly. Fish meal, kelp, alfalfa meal, green sand, bone meal, Humus is all bunk imo. It’s wasteful. Perhaps people feel better buying it like people that buy very expensive dog food thinking is so much better. It’s all marketing. I’m in Minnesota and gotta lot of worms in my soil. That’s free fertilizer in my gardens with the worm castings.
you always here that your plants only need NPK. That is not true, adding azomite to your soil will improve the minerals in your soil that your plant also needs. There is a lot more I do but this is a start.
When i lived in bama you could get a load of chicken crap cheap just dump it and when you see red worms in it you ready to go
Hi Gary thanks for this video and all the great info on organic fertilizers! Do you apply them weeks before you start planting your garden so they can decompose and be ready to feed your plants at planting? or you fertilize at planting only, or both? Thanks so much!!
Another well made video! Thanks again for your time!
I’ve learned so much from this channel. I’m going into my fourth season of taking gardening seriously. I have two 24′ x 15′ plots and I’m seriously considering taking down some mature trees to add another 75′ x 25′ area on the other side of my 2 acre property. I start most of my plants indoors and it’s been really satisfying. I like the Espoma granular and for water soluble fertilizers, Agrothrive and Alaska fish emulsion. I credit Gary for teaching me to look out for whatever is on sale later in the summer and using that next year. One day I hope to have a garden like his.
I was headed to the store to buy all 3😂! Thanks Gary!!
What is the difference between different types? I bought a giant bag for camilas and azaelas by accident so i can go ahead and use in my raised beds?
Thank you for this video!