I use chicken manure. I mix it in with the planting mix before I pot things up, and I mix it in with the soil when I plant things out. Sometimes I add a little slow release chemical fertilizer, usually Walmart's brand.
The chicken manure works better for me than anything else I've used.
Sherry

I use Epsom's Organic fertilizer and fish emulsion. Compost is the biggie.

I have no idea--there's a local nursery that makes their own dry fertilizer sold in brown bags. Smells awful (and is dusty, so I wear a sick-mask when I spread it!), works great. I asked for something organic that wouldn't hurt the earthworms, and haven't tried anything else (but compost) since.

I do use Miracle Grow for container plants, though, I'll admit.

I switched over from Miracle Gro to an organic product called Medina Liquid Plant Fertilizer "Hasta Gro" :o)

~ Cat

A few years back, MissSherry suggested using the Chicken Manure. It is more of an all-around organic fertlizer, containing not only the nitrogen that most animal fertilizers contain, but phosphorus as well. I have used it ever since she mentioned it, and it has worked wonders in my garden.

I highly suggest it as a fertilizer for butterfly plants.

I used some accidentally on my moonflowers (Ipomeae alba), and they have responded with a lot of bloom and huge blossoms. Normally, most vines in the ipomeae genus do not like fertlizer at all, preferring lean soil. I have never seen such large blossoms on an ipomeae! Even my datura doesn't have such large blooms as the moonflower. This is the first year I've been able to actually get them to germinate and grow, and I recommend the chicken manure for most everything in the garden. It improves the soil naturally, instead of using the artificial fertilizers.

Susan

Ditto to what Susan said, plus chicken manure gives you lots of big earthworms, which also aerate and fertilize the soil.
Sherry