Why Organic?
It has been said that the externalized cost of chemical agriculture is being paid in the form of resource deletions, contaminated water, co2 emissions and greenhouse gases, soil depletion, and loss of species. The human cost is equally large. Loss of family-run farms and agriculture, the extermination of small towns and local economies, the sickness and cost caused by unregulated chemical and pesticide use, the loss of nutritional value in our food, and the hunger, and death of poor countries who produce for export instead of feeding it’s own people.
With this knowledge, it’s no wonder people are looking for alternate forms of farming. Organic is the next logical step. From the soil to the table there are organic options for every level of gardener. This article will discuss the virtues and options in organic fertilizers.
For the organic purist, organic fertilizer is something that comes from the surrounding land (manure from your own livestock or “waste” from your own garden). The fertilizer is recycled, often composted. Organic purists focus on soil health and use rotations, fallows, green manures and compost to maintain fertility.
For the not so purist, resources used in organic fertilizer must be sustainably used, and come from natural resources.
Whatever your reason for choosing to go organic, it is important to know that there are organizations which have strict international guidelines to deem an item ‘organic’. This includes fertilizers and food.This Organic Guarantee System (OGS) brings together the organic world through common standards, verification, and market identity. These organizations are very important in setting standards for a guaranteed organic product.
Basic principals
Organic foods and other products are made from organically produced ingredients that are processed primarily by biological, mechanical, and physical means.Natural, renewable, biological and regenerative resources are the basis of organic production and processing systems. Organic matter is recycled to maintain the soil fertility of organic agriculture. Availability of nutrients in the soil is primarily dependent of its own soil organisms. Cultural and local practices manage the problems of pests, weeds and disease. As well, livestock is managed with organically produced feed, and kept in living conditions conducive to natural behavior, and lack of strain.
This Organic Guarantee System (OGS) lists these as the acceptable natural organic fertilizer choices.
Plant and Animal Sources:
Farmyard manure, slurry and urine
Guano
blood meal, meat meal, bone, bone meal
hoof and horn meal, feather meal, fish and fish products, wool, fur, hair, dairy products
biodegradable processing by-products, plant or animal origin, e.g. by-products of food, feed, oilseed, brewery, distillery or textile processing.
Crop and vegetable residues, mulch, green manure, straw
wood, bark, sawdust, wood shavings, wood ash, wood charcoal
seaweed and seaweed products
peat (prohibited for soil conditioning) (Excluding synthetic additives; permitted for inclusion in potting mixes.)
Plant preparations and extracts
Most countries follow these strict guidelines, some with their own discrepancies. For instance Canadian standards are more stringent than some other countries. Raw manure and human sludge are not permitted on their organic fertilizer list.
Mineral Origin organic fertilizers
basic slag
calcareous and magnesium amendments
limestone, gypsum, marl, chalk, sugar beet lime, calcium chloride
magnesium rock, kieserite and Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate)
mineral potassium (e.g. sulfate of potash, muriate of potash, kainite, sylvanite, patent kali) (Shall only be obtained by physical procedures but not enriched by chemical processes)
natural phosphates
pulverized rock, stone meal
clay (e.g. bentonite, perlite, vermiculite, zeolite)
sodium chloride
trace elements
sulfur
Microbiological organic fertilizers
Biodegradable processing by-products of microbial origin. For example – by-products of brewery or distillery processing.
Microbiological preparations based on naturally occurring organisms
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When Babies eat organic baby food when they grow up, Do they have to keep eating organic foods?My baby is 4 months old. My husband accidentally bought organic baby food(applesauce) and she LOVED it! BUT a couple of my friends say if she eats organic foods as a baby she will have to keep eating it when she grows up.
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Farmers and gardeners have been dealing with "what is the best fertilizer" for, literally, thousands of years. The link below is one list of the plant nutrient content of available fertilizers. The one constant in all of this is that plants need to absorb certain nutrients to grow and only absorb nutrients they need to grow as certain specific ions.
Nitrogen, for example, is a required nutrient for plant growth and is only absorbed as ammonium ion or nitrate ion. Organic fertilizers, including seaweed extract, contain nitrogen which is usually converted by soil organisms to nitrate or ammonium, which can then be used by a plant.
Because the nutrient requirements are known for most plants, you can calculate how much fertilizer is required for your plants and apply that fertilizer accordingly. Too much or too little fertilizer each has negative effects on plants, and possibly the environment, whether the fertilizer is organic or inorganic.
For example, if I fertilize the grass in my cow pasture with seaweed extract at .7% nitrogen, I would apply 8571 pounds of seaweed extract to 1 acre to obtain the necessary 60 lbs per acre of nitrogen. If I used poultry manure at 3% nitrogen I would need to apply 2000 lbs per acre. With those numbers in mind, you can see that there are other considerations you have to take into account.
http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-0174/ANR-0174.pdf
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With the egg shells and the match tips, you're getting a decent shot of sulfur and that's probably what's smelling. Rotten egg smell? That's sulfur……
I'd try it on one or two plants and see if there are any negative effects.
Go to http://www.your-health-and-life.com/index.html and click on organic gardening. Great information on organic fertilizers.
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You could always do as Massasoit showed the Pilgrims, use fish. To be practicable for a moment, if as you say you have poor soil the first thing to do is introduce as much organic matter as you can. Do you live near a stable or farm where you can get plenty of manure, does your town collect the leaves every fall and compost them, all of those suggestions would be great for your garden. I would not suggest trying to use store bought peat moss, for one thing it is destroying the environment digging it up and two it oxidises and disappears too quickly. Good old farmyard manure is the best. Good luck and green fingers.
I see below that someone has suggested adding hay or straw to your garden, that's a strictly no-no.In the decomposition of the hay or straw it will delete the nitrogen from you soil. It needs nitrogen to break it down, that's why the farm manure must be well rotted and the leaves of course.
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The best organic fertilizer is probably compost. For run of the mill compost–
Do use:
1)Composted cow, horse, rabbit, chicken manure–most raw manure is too "hot" for plants
2)egg shells, vegetable and fruit scraps, ashes, grass clippings, leaves, garden waste, coffee grounds and tea leaves
Keep the pile moist, and turn occasionally to encourage bacterial breakdown of plant matter and manure.
You may want to add other organic amendments, example, lime or bone meal.
DO NOT USE pet manure except in nonfood applications. Additionally, don't use diseased plants, meat, fat, dairy or bones in compost.
Advantage of organic pesiticides is you don't have to worry about giving yourself cancer when you apply it or when you or others eat the food.
Another is its far cheaper and most of the time you can make them yourself with just a blender. Also, most organic pesticides don't poison drinking water and kill wildlife and pets.
With the fertilizers the biggest advantage is that they work better in the long haul, although chemicals work better in the short haul.They don't poison your drinking water supply permanently like chemical fertilizers can do. They don't burn and kill worms which are very desirable to have in your soil the way chemical fertilizers do.
I hope this helps you.
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They have tons of different types , all organic.I 've been using their
products for years , and they are great ! Their " tomatoes alive ! "
fertilizer for tomatoes is GREAT ! Some of my tomatoes this year
are over 6 feet tall already, and loaded with " Maters " ….
( they sometimes send you coupons for $25.00 tot ry their stuff. These are like a gift certificate ; if you send less than $25.00, your suff is free.. a great deal ! ) Enjoy !
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these fertilizers are made of natural substances which do not cause much damage to flora and fauna. They are environment friend y. they increase fertility of land.