Natural Garden Fertilizer Ingredients

If you want to grow an organic garden, then you need to use a natural garden fertilizer.  Natural garden fertilizers work well with the soil ecosystem already in your garden.  Natural fertilizers are not harmful to the earth and frequently use renewable and sustainable ingredients from plant and animal byproducts.

Ingredients Found in Natural Fertilizers

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  Seaweed--This is one of the most renewable natural fertilizer ingredients because it is bountifully found in the sea.  Seaweed contains numerous minerals that are absent from synthetic fertilizers.  Minerals such as magnesium, manganese, zinc, iron, calcium, molybdenum, phosphorus, potassium and boron are micronutrients that foster plant growth.

  
  


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  Decomposed fish--Finely ground-up fish, a byproduct of the fishing industry, supplies plants with necessary nitrogen and nutrients for their growth.  This ingredient is popular with organic gardeners and will help the plants in your garden reach their maximum yield potential.  This ingredient is also available to purchase separately and is sold as fish emulsion.

  
  


• Crab shells--Fertilizer that features ground-up crab shells has the added benefit of curbing garden pests.

• Animal blood and bone meal--These ingredients are derived from sterilized slaughterhouse animals. Bone meal comes from crushed bones and blood meal comes from dried blood.  Bone meal contains copious amounts of calcium, which helps channel nutrients down to the roots of plants.  Root growth is particularly important for root vegetables such as onions and carrots.  Blood meal contains a large percentage of nitrogen. 

• Cottonseed meal--Cottonseed meal is derived from the holes of cotton kernels.  In addition to providing nitrogen and micronutrients, cottonseed meal can help lower the pH of the soil.