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T & J Enterprises http://www.tandjenterprises.com
They market a mycorrhizae inoculant to enhance soil symbiont numbers.

To make compost tea
http://www.simplici-tea.com/index.html...

Dave's Garden Watchdog offers reviews from users
http://davesgarden.com/gwd/c/1617/

To make your own try Alfalfa Tea
Alfalfa is a good slow-release source of nitrogen, but since you will be "digesting" it by letting it ferment in water, the resulting tea is a soluble, fast-acting nitrogen source. In addition to nitrogen, alfalfa supplies enzymes and trace elements that are not present in chemical nitrogen fertilizers. it offers Triacontanol, a growth stimulant, an array of vitamins, co-enzymes, & 20 % crude proteins.
Choose a garbage bin or 5 gal bucket with no leaks and a tight fitting lid. Position it in an out of the way place - you don't want to have to move it once it's full.
For a full size garbage bin (20 gallons) add 16 cups of alfalfa pellets or alfalfa meal (4 cups to every 5 gallons or 22 litres of water)
Add 2 cups of Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate crystals) (or half a cup to 5 gallons)
Fill with water
Let stand for one week until it bubbles with fermentation. Your nose will tell you that it's ready.
Apply tea once per month in the spring and summer, especially after the first flush of flowers, to encourage repeat blooming. It can be used to drench the soil or sprayed on the foliage.
Alfalfa pellets or meal are available from garden or feed stores in 50 lb. bags. Pellets are easier to handle, but I feel that the meal makes a better fertilizer. Epsom salts are available in most pharmacies.
Fish and Seaweed Foliage sprays
Seaweed provides micronutrients and plant growth hormones. Fish provides nitrogen but is effective beyond that as an explanation.

Fertilizer is made to order if you make your own.
Nitrogen: (For producing leaf growth and greener leaves (chlorophyll), protein synthesis)
Dried blood 12-15
Desert bat guano 8
Cottonseed meal 7
Bone meal 4
Coffee grounds 2
Ground cocoa bean & peanut hulls 1
Compost manure 0.5
Phosphorus: (For proper seed development; hastens maturity; increased seed yield and flower production; fruit and vitamin content; increased resistance to winterkill and diseases)
Phosphate rock 30-32
Bone meal 21
Dried blood 3
Cottonseed meal 2.5
Potassium: (For promoting early growth (meristematic tissue); improves stem strength and cold hardiness; better color, flavor and keeping quality of fruits and vegetables; good for root system)
Basalt rock; wood ashes 7
Granite dust 5
Greensand 5
Seaweed (kelp) 5
Manures & compost 2.7
Shredded leaves 0.6
Potash, compost 0.5

Coffee is acidic so in large amounts it will change your soil pH.
Coffee Grounds N-P-K 2-0.3-0.2 Minor source of calcium & magnesium. Use at 1lb/100 sq ft unless on acid loving plants
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/groundsfo...

4 parts coffee ground
1 part bone meal
1 part wood ashes
Coffee is acidic while wood ashes are basic so this is a balanced use of the two.

University of Pennsylvania's Morris Arboretum uses:
In a large bucket combine
1 cup alfalfa meal
1 cup fish meal
1 cup greensand
1 cup gypsum
1/2 cup bonemeal.
Use a trowel to mix the ingredients well.

Sul-Po-Mag (0-0-22) 19% sulfur; 10% magnesium. Do not use with dolomotic lime. Rapidly available potassium and magnesium.

2007-05-23 06:44:00 · answer #1 · answered by gardengallivant 7 · 0 0

organic plant food is decomposed materials like grass clippings, leaves, manure, vegetable plant's , scraps from the table & ect. Buy a 'Organic Gardening Magazine" it will help you a lot on organic gardening. Organic gardening is not only for the garden but also flower, fruit trees, lawn & much more. You are on the right tract by organic gardening. Keep it up and good luck

2007-05-23 08:01:57 · answer #2 · answered by beautiful blue eyes 2 · 0 0

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