The best natural fertilizers

The principle of fertilizing in the organic vegetable garden

If you prepare the soil well in autumn and spring, you hardly need any additional fertilizers during the growth phase. If there is still a lack of nutrients, biological fertilizers are used, which are bacteria and fungi down in the soil supply. These decompose green manure, compost or mulch and thereby release substances that are valuable for the plants. You can recognize a good substrate by the pleasant earthy smell, by the many worms and creatures that cavort in it and by a loose structure.

Animal manure

Crap from

• Beef
• horse
• sheep
• goat
• Rabbits
• chicken

has been one of the most important fertilizers since ancient times. It contains all nutrients in a balanced and mild composition. This is applied as follows:

• Cattle manure is applied to the surface in a very thin layer in autumn and supplies heavy eaters.
• Horse manure is one of the "heated fertilizers" and is suitable for heating up Cold frames.
• Pig manure contains almost no lime but a relatively large amount of potash. It should be composted.
• Sheep, goat and rabbit manure are also among the "heated fertilizers" that should be composted.
• Poultry manure has a high potash and up to 12 percent phosphorus content. It is composted mixed with soil.

Horn meal is also one of the valuable animal fertilizers. The coarser the substance, the slower this fertilizer will be implemented.

Green manure

This is a very old method of soil improvement. In the vegetable garden it is used like a kind of shift change. Once a bed has been harvested, plant species that regenerate the earth are sown.

Manure

Both manure and plants can be put in water, fermented, and diluted accordingly, poured as fertilizer. Manure are perfect for heavy consumers.

compost

In the organic vegetable garden, compost not only serves as fertilizer, but also as a source of humus and for soil maintenance. A high humus content increases the soil's ability to hold water and nutrients.

Biological fertilizers from specialist shops

You can get universal and special fertilizers that are optimally matched to the nutritional requirements of certain vegetable plants in garden shops. There are even vegetarian fertilizers here that are made exclusively from vegetable raw materials.