Fertilisers

[PJW_Letchworth]

I am trying to keep my plot as organic as possible but am unsure what fertilisers I can use for what plants.

The plot was manured last year completely.  I have been blood, fish and bone but I'm not sure if this is suitable for everything.

I'm growing onions, brassicas, beans, spuds, carrots, beetroot to name a few.

Any help would, as always, be gratefully appreciated.

[PJW_Letchworth]

[Georgie]

I'd say that one of the first rules of 'being as organic as possible'  is asking whether you need any fertilizers at all.  Depends on your soil condition for starters and the greediness of your plants.  I was concerned to learn that Blood Fish and Bone isn't always organic and it worries me that many gardening articles these days advocate feeding just about everything weekly/fortnightly with tomato fertilizer. 

I grow all my edibles in pots.  They get a good homemade compost with a few organic chicken manure pellets and a spray with seaweed solution a few times a season if they need it.  That's it.

G x

[Marymary]

I've also got some organic chicken manure pellets which I am digging in, also manured earlier this year - apart from that & tons of my own compost the only feed I shall use is some organic tomato feed when they get going [and the cues & melons & squashes all get a weekly dose].

[jennym]

Think I'd save your blood fish & bone and use it on shrubs and fruit bushes. trees etc. It tends to act over a long period, so is good for plants that grow slowly.

[Eristic]

You need to be carefull with the use of fish blood and bone or bonemeal these days as it attracts the foxes. Nothing worse than finding your lottie covered in big holes after sowing your seed.