Homemade compost and well composted manures (use primarily cow and turkey litter).

Dave

blood meal for N bone meal for P and black kow manure

I agree with Dave. I like composted rabbit manure though. I also feed seedlings with Neptune's fish fert and I feed the garden a few times during the spring and summer.

Jon

I have a flock of chickens. Need I saw more?

Bone meal (P) seems to give everything a boost, from tomatoes in the ground to house plants in pots.

Alfalfa pellets (N)

Fish emulsion in a weak solution is what I use on seedlings when they first show a need for fertilizer. Soilless seed starting medium has no added fertilizer. Fish emulsion provides a little of everthing, including trace elements.

Composted leaf mold is my favorite soil ammendment, no so much a fertilizer.

Jim

compost, seaweed from beach, my pee, neptune's fish emulsion

I use
sea solids-www.seaagri.com
and/or
fish/seaweed emulsion-www.neptunesharvest.com

I guess it is time for me to chime in. I like compost and it is fun to make but in my short gardening experience I have really become fond of fish w/kelp emulsion. So much so that I am going to be burying 3-15 lbs salmon scraps and carcasses in the garden bed this year. Deeply of course.

sigh

I buried fish frames and fish guts under the corn in my three sisters garden this year. The corn is doing well so far but it's too early to know if it is from the fish.

Jim

I use bonemeal, kelp, woodashe and bloodmeal for my favorite houseplants. Orgainc ferts are too expensive to use out in the vegetable gardens. Manure is not available here from farms. I do sheet compost shredded organic trash from the town shredder place. It's usually a shredded mix of branches, twigs, grass and weeds. Yet every time I have the soil tested it needs Nitrogen. I supply that with Ammonium Nitrate.

Any kitchen scraps, yard waste (without seeds in it), chinchilla bedding (Yesterday's News Bedding) and chinchilla droppings. My dog's waste I have a separate composter for and use only on my flower bed.

I especially like that I can compost my chinchillas' bedding. Their bedding is already made from recycled newspaper, and so it's great to know I can continue the trend of recycling and reusing. Yesterday's News is a bit more expensive, but everywhere I have read on the Internet, it is hands down the most recommended bedding to use if you plan to compost it when your furry friends are done with it.

Ok just by chance I found two half pound bags of catfish which had been in the freezer for about one year and as you can guess they were pretty freezer burnt. So I took one of the bags out and buried it about 9 or 10 inches down. I don't have to worry about critters (fenced yard) althoughb I do have a small dog. I will bury the other bag under a young Dwarf Japanese Cherry tree that is slow to putpn size.

I use the fish emulsion and my corn is really loving it corn is already +4ft tall and has close to 2 more months to go :).

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Sat, Jun 27, 09 at 16:58

sigh

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justaguy- why the sigh? or should I quess?

Maybe justaguy sighed from the environmental impact of harvesting fish and kelp for fertilizer? I have heard the people against it say that is takes fish away from the worlds poor fisherman.

Well what if you are making your own fish fert from fish you caught and ate? Thats what I am doing :)

Justaguy is right. Organic is nothing when it is not sustainable. For woody plants and most perennials, I love the long term help that FREE, SUSTAINABLE wood chips provide. They mulch and very slowly add minerals while adding modest amounts of N.

For vegetables, kitchen scraps and sustainable urea mixed with dead leaves provide everything a garden needs. I just spread a trash can of compost made this way, and I marveled at the disappearance of several catfish heads in 3 weeks (including the bones, I had fly larvae in there), into crumbly soil. I do like manure, and all I need to do is go to my neighbors to get unlimited amounts, but except for chicken it is not as rich as kitchen scraps, and the latter is something most people can do.

My own compost AND Winterwood Farms organic shellfish compost. I've been buying it by the pallet for the last 4 years and I love the stuff.

Sustainability is a necessary thing. I always assumed Neptune's used fish waste from the industry since they are so close to it, literally in the midst of it, but I have never asked them about that.

I get my seaweed from the washed up beach seaweed that will otherwise be gathered by the town for compost.

My pee is free, if only I could convince my family to join

Glib, where does your urea come from?

I too love Winterwood Farms Shellfish compost. It had a little odor, but that's how I know it's working!

no fillers, no bark, no dirt, just pure organic compost baby!

After 27 days of rain this June, no fungal infections or mold in my veggie garden. Most of my friends lost 50% or more of their gardens this year due to the wet weather!
I tell 'em 'it's the compost'

Here is a link that might be useful: shellfish compost