There is no mistake that going green is top of mind with just about everyone in the nation. With the Obamas growing their own organic garden in the White House to celebrities hiring gardeners to build organic raised vegetable gardens.
The single most important piece of an organic garden is the soil. However, often times your vegetables will not get the proper nutrients it needs to survive from soil alone. Your plants need three major nutrients and they are phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen. There are some other components like magnesium, zinc, copper, iron, sulfur and calcium.
Why Use Organic Fertilizers?
Organic fertilizers in your raised vegetable garden release nutrients slowly over time. Also the materials of organic fertilizer end up as a wonderful texture to your soil. After you harvest your crop you can simply turn over your soil to incorporate left over vegetables and organic fertilizer to re-use the soil. This is an effect soil recycling system. This creates a compost naturally.
A Definition of Organic Fertilizer
To call these components of nutrients organic they must be natural in nature. These include manure, green sand, rock phosphate or bone meal. Whereas synthetic fertilizers are man made materials and considered chemicals.
What Organic Fertilizer Do You Use?
It’s important to know what types of organic fertilizers provide as nutrients. As an example cow manure contains all the essentials including potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen and other organic matter. You can use this directly on vegetable plants. Dry or powdered seaweed contains all the same as manure but also include iron and zinc.
In short this topic is always a great debate starter among organic farmers. The goal is to not contaminate your vegetables with man made chemicals.
Please let me know how you fertilize your garden. Happy gardening.
