I use organic fertilizer, but I'm still learning quite a bit still (disclaimer).

Anyways, I don't see why you couldn't use blood/bone meal on everything. I buy veggie, fruit, acid-loving, etc fertilizers and all have different ratios of ingredients and blood/bone meal are in all of them. Blood meal is high nitrogen though, and little (if any) of anything else! Bone meal is high phosphorus (I think...), and little anything else, so you're missing potassium if you just use those two.

Other things you can use (ingredients in many organic fertilizers) is alfalfa meal, cottonseed meal (apparently acidic and for acid loving plants), bat guano, composted chicken manure.

And for water soluable you can use fish poo/fish emulsion/concentrated seedweed fertilizer.

There are also many "pre-mixed" organic fertilizers that have appropriate ratios of NPK so you don't have to mix up various ingredients yourself. Epsoma is a fairly common brand.

And there is an Organic Gardening forum here that specializes in just this question. It is direct linked near the top of this forum's page.

Dave

I use compost, kelp, rock dust, woodash,etc.. I also grow a cover crop and mulch heavily... I used to use animal products like blood/bone meal but I found that it attracts animals and they would dig up all my crops! As mentioned, espoma is a good start... Personally I don't think you could beat a good compost with all the minerals from woodash,etc.. Rockdust, azomite is good if you have the money, but you could do without it.. I wouldn't lighten your wallet to much with all the fertilizers... If you didnt want to spend lots of money, some good compost with a little bit of woodash is what I use... If you got money to spend, azomite is good stuff.

Good luck,
Joe

Thank you all and thank you for telling me about the organic garden one I had no clue. YEA!!!!

Compost tea is good, right?

This post was edited by TheMasterGardener1 on Tue, Apr 2, 13 at 18:21

I have a friend who only adds steer manure (even cheaper than chicken manure) every year in the tomato bed. The plants look great.

I used composted chicken manure and fallen tree leaves from my yard in all my beds last year. Besides potatoes (set back by a late frost), I was very pleased with the amount of veggies I harvested with just those two things. My wife, however, was disappointed with the taste of our carrots, which she thought tasted too "herby" for her liking. I thought they were great compared to the store-bought carrots, but I don't generally like carrots anyway.

This year, I am trying out a mixture of composted chicken manure and "home-grown" compost from our kitchen scraps and such. Spring is taking so freakin' long this year to get underway, but I think once it warms up considerably, I will have an even better harvest than last year.

To sum up, I recommend composted chicken manure and old leaves and/or compost.

OK thank you all. I never did find the organic garden one on here. It's like finding a needle in a haystack there's soooo many forums on here.
I am getting me some chickens soon so that should help out quite a bit!

espoma makes good products plantone and gardentone are good ,but wood ash is good i have massive pile from the winter .they also have biotone which great stuff.

There is a link to organic gardening at the top of the main vegetable gardening forum page. If you're just starting out, I suggest you buy one of the complete organic fertilizers (like the espona products, Dr. Earth, etc.) The main way to do organic gardening is to build up your soil over several years by adding compost, composted manure and the various other things people mentioned like bone meal, kelp, rock dust. Many of these things take a season or more to break down to a form your plants can use.

Here is a link that might be useful: Organic Gardening Forum