The Grass Doctor

Is there an organic fertilizer for vegetable garden?

Public Comments

1. Milorganite can be used anywhere, without burning anything. It decomposes fast so make sure you use up the entire bag with one application. Use it on shrubs, trees and lawns.... It is reprocessed sewer sludge. It's all I ever use.
2. If you're looking to buy fertiliser, try going to a local garden centre and see what they have. They'll have brands that are available, and maybe even good ones for specific types of vegetables. Give them a call. They'll probably have organic brands. But it's always good if you have your own compost pile and use that.
3. All rotting organic material that is composting is organic fertilizer. Leaves, clippings, coffee grounds, vegetable peels, just keep mixing, turning, medium moisture and areate. Worms aid and speed the process. Newspapers,
4. Compost is excellent. Feathermeal, cottonseed meal, bone meal,green sand.lava sand, corn glutten.
5. Oh sure. Blood mean or Cottonseed meal for nitrogen, rock phosphate for phosphorus, manures for potassium are just three. Greensand, composts are two other possibilities. Don't forget manure teas. More companies are developing their own organic fertilizers........I use YumYum mix. You won't get as high a concentration of nutrients in an organic source as you would with a inorganic fertilizer so you may have to adjust your growing techniques a bit (don't try to cram the plants shoulder to shoulder, give them so room to expand their roots and find the nutrients. Milorganite used to not be for edible crops.......it's made from sewage sludge that's been composted. Apparently Milwaukee has cleaned up it's sewage from the high toxic metals. Many organic fertilizers are high in salts so you have to apply the fertilizers carefully and manage water so as not to allow the salts to build up to a toxic level.
6. Fish emulsion. Kelpmeal or liquid. Compost. Check the lists on Peaceful Valley Farm Supply. www.groworgainc.com Check your soil and see what it needs. If you have good soil you don't need much fertilizer. Check out cover crops.
7. Fish your fertilizer out of the toilet BEFORE you flush the toilet! *laughter* Well, at least we both have ONE thumbs-down vote, Dr. Plant. Your answer says the same thing as mine does, just the source of the poo is different.
8. ASK A FARMER FOR SOME BARNYARD. HE CLEANS IT OUT OF HIS BARN , GREAT FOR A GARDEN.
9. I highly recommend using fish /seaweed mix...I uses Neptune's Harvest. Buy it in concentrate form..mix teaspoon per gallon. Works great for vegetables, squash and pumpkins. I got it at local nursery.