Organic gardening revolves around the concept of using all natural products to grow your garden. Organic gardeners depend on Mother Nature to rid their gardens of unwanted byproducts, forgoing their chemical counterparts that have devastating effects on the Earth.
Decomposing plants and animals are excellent fertilizers for enriching the soil. Enriched soil allows plants to grow and thrive using the available nutrients from the dead organisms, all while increasing the soil's microbial life.
Organic gardeners know that it is important to know a fertilizer's nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium ratings. These micronutrients promote leaf growth, fruiting, flowering and rooting. The N-P-K fertilizer compound can be applied by either the method known as top dressing, which is a process in which the gardener adds the fertilizer to the top couple of inches of soil by the root zone and mixing it to avoid run-off, or by brewing a tea of fertilizer mixed with water. Either method will encourage increases in microbial life.
Worm castings are also a great, natural fertilizer. Worms eat the compost and soil in the garden and excrete castings that are five times as rich as what they had eaten. They also aerate and oxygenate your garden by digging tunnels as they eat. This act provides much needed oxygen to the roots of the plants.
Compost is often used as an organic garden fertilizer and can be created easily with home items such as grass clippings, table scraps, and dead plants.
Of course, these are just a couple of natural fertilizers that can be used in your organic garden. A gardener could also use such fertilizers as manure, bat guano, fish emulsion, seaweed, and many products that are available commercially now. If every gardener would use one or many of these methods to fertilize their fruit or vegetable garden, they will surely reap the benefits of their organically grown produce.
Decomposing plants and animals are excellent fertilizers for enriching the soil. Enriched soil allows plants to grow and thrive using the available nutrients from the dead organisms, all while increasing the soil's microbial life.
Organic gardeners know that it is important to know a fertilizer's nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium ratings. These micronutrients promote leaf growth, fruiting, flowering and rooting. The N-P-K fertilizer compound can be applied by either the method known as top dressing, which is a process in which the gardener adds the fertilizer to the top couple of inches of soil by the root zone and mixing it to avoid run-off, or by brewing a tea of fertilizer mixed with water. Either method will encourage increases in microbial life.
Worm castings are also a great, natural fertilizer. Worms eat the compost and soil in the garden and excrete castings that are five times as rich as what they had eaten. They also aerate and oxygenate your garden by digging tunnels as they eat. This act provides much needed oxygen to the roots of the plants.
Compost is often used as an organic garden fertilizer and can be created easily with home items such as grass clippings, table scraps, and dead plants.
Of course, these are just a couple of natural fertilizers that can be used in your organic garden. A gardener could also use such fertilizers as manure, bat guano, fish emulsion, seaweed, and many products that are available commercially now. If every gardener would use one or many of these methods to fertilize their fruit or vegetable garden, they will surely reap the benefits of their organically grown produce.
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