It is better to use organic fertilizers for a number of reasons, not the least of which is what you are leaving behind in your environment as you garden.\u00a0 However, chemical fertilizers can actually damage plants, causing a speed of growth that weakens the plants to disease and damage in the long-term.<\/p>\n
Bonemeal:\u00a0 Promotes strong root growth, use as a base dressing before planting shrubs, fruit, and other perennials.<\/p>\n
Plant-based Fertilizers:\u00a0 Such as comfrey, alfalfa, and soy.\u00a0 Use to feed vegetables.<\/p>\n
Soybean meal:\u00a0 High-nitrogen source.\u00a0 Use on annual vegetable beds or as a base dressing in poor soil.<\/p>\n
Seaweed meal:\u00a0 Helps build up humus levels.\u00a0 Use for annual beds, fruit trees, bushes, lawns.<\/p>\n
Rock Phosphate:\u00a0 Use to correct a phosphate deficiency, good non-animal alternative to bonemeal.<\/p>\n
Organic garden potash:\u00a0 Use to feed fruit and vegetables.<\/p>\n
Gypsum:\u00a0 Supplies calcium without altering PH<\/p>\n
If you do need to alter the PH of soil, use ground limestone or dolomitic limestone to make it more alkaline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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