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Growing Organic Vegetables - Generating Your Own Personal Fertilisers
Introducing organic fertilisers to your garden soil ensures that the soil get the needed nutrients it needs. All gardeners growing organic vegetables will tell you that if you do this 2-3 times each year it will greatly improve all of the soil in your vegetable garden.
Keep in mind that doing this the organic way makes certain that there are no man made chemical compounds being put back into your soil.
Varieties of fertiliser:
These can be broken down into two basic varieties.
Organic animal based and organic plant based fertiliser.
Organic Animal Fertiliser:
Organic animal fertiliser is more usually known as manure.
For the most part you will find that it comes from cows, horses and chickens. Also you can include bats and rabbits in our list of animals.
This manure will ideally have enough time to decompose and age before mixing it in completely with your soil. If you are doing this yourself it is very important that the manure has fully decomposed to ensure the removal of bad bacteria.
Once your fertiliser is fully decomposed you can now mix this in with your soil. It will depend on which form your fertiliser is in as to precisely how you could do this.
But in basic terms, if it is in either liquid or solid form you ought to ensure that it is mixed in completely with your soil. It is also a good idea to schedule your planting for not less than 3-4 weeks after you apply your fertiliser. Not only will this permit the fertiliser to work it's magic through the soil but it will eradicate any bad odors from the manure that will otherwise make your planting an unattractive undertaking.
Organic Plant Fertiliser:
Widely known in most gardening circles as "Green Manure" Plant based fertiliser comes from various sources.
Most common originate from seaweed and kelp. This kind of fertiliser is excellent for growing organic vegetables as seaweed has been shown to comprise of nutrients such as manganese, copper and zinc. All of which are directly associated with excellent growth of your produce and give the soil with the beneficial nutrients an organic gardener looks for.
Numerous organic gardeners currently work with worm casings to fertilise their soil. It is possible to buy this in your neighborhood gardening store, but many people now produce their own.
To get this done you need to make sure you have the right worms that you can get once again from the garden shop. A covered container and damp vegetable matter or old newspaper. This is a wonderful and reliable way to get free fertiliser for your garden all the year round and costs very little.
There is an additional "Green Manure" fertiliser you can use if you can find the appropriate plants. Usually this is a crop such as soya which is grown and then harvested and blended with the soil so that the plant basically decomposes in the soil. This works very well as the decomposing plant matter produces nutrients as it breaks down in the soil.
Being sure that you keep the soil of your organic garden well fertilised at the very least twice a year will ensure that your crop is gaining it's highest growing potential. It is comparatively cheap to do and the minimal costs involved will ensure your eating a good crop of organic vegetables though-out the year.
Why not give growing organic vegetables a go, you really will love the taste of your own naturally produced vegetables and herbs
