![]() ![]() Fido and friends think that blood meal, bonemeal, kelp meal, fish meal, and other organic fertilizing agents smell and taste delicious. This is appropriate most of the time, as plants should not be encouraged to grow too quickly when the weather is still chilly, yet when you are establishing vegetable starts or flowering annuals, a little nutrient boost can go a long way towards helping them get going. If you are growing cold tolerant crops and the soil is still below 50☏, a dry or powdered fertilizer will break down very slowly, as the microbial activity in the soil slows during times of cool weather. ![]() This isn’t appropriate for all landscape settings, such as when you are fertilizing shrubs, but when you are fertilizing brand-new plants or seedlings, or those plants with an obvious nutrient deficiency such as all over yellowing or yellowing in between the veins, a liquid organic fertilizer can act as an “energy drink” for your plants to give an immediate boost in health. A liquid fertilizer can be faster acting than a dry or granular fertilizer, because the fertilizer has already dissolved into the liquid and thus plants will take it up quickly in larger quantities. ![]() After sharing recipes for making your own granular organic fertilizer from inexpensive bulk ingredients, I’ve gotten a number of questions from readers asking how to convert a dry organic fertilizer into a liquid. ![]()
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