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Perfect Blend Organics: good stuff?

Hi guys!

This year I decided to start going organic. I had planned to start early spring, but wasn't able to due to some set-backs. Oh well, I guess the second best time to do it is right now!

I still need to do more research into grains etc, but thought buying a bagged organic fertilizer was a good first step for me. I did buy some alfalfa pellets, which I will use soon.

I went to Lowes a few weeks ago and bought some bagged fert that is called Perfect Blend Organics. I really have no clue as to what is good and what isn't. I was hoping you experts could tell me if this is a good kind or not. If not, what would be better?

Thanks for any advice!

CMK

Comments (9)

  • 17 years ago

    As a rule spending your money on "organic fertilizers" is more often than not a waste of that money since most people, just utilizing the organic matter they already have and mostly throw away, is sufficient.

  • 17 years ago

    -kimmsr, I didn't find the price of bagged organic fertilizer was any more expensive than what I was paying for non-organic. Sounds like a fair enough trade to me.

    I have a compost, but it makes only enough to supply my gardens. It is too much for me to have compost hauled in. And even if I did I don't know that I would be able to do that much work.

    I may use corn meal, soy bean, (etc) as soon as I locate some and figure out how much to use. I only have enough corn meal laying around to make my sweet cornbread- which I am not sharing with the lawn! ;-)

    I read on this forum about another brand of bagged organic fertilizer. Some said it had salts in it that were bad. I just want to know if this Perfect Blend is good or not. I don't expect that I can make the change overnight! Like I said above, I think organic fertilizer is a good first step for me. At least it is a step in the right direction!
    CMK

  • 17 years ago

    Find the Organic Lawn Care FAQ over on the Organic Gardening forum. That will help you with what to put on and how much.

  • 15 years ago

    I found a corn gluten based organic fertilizer that works well in my vegetible garden and inside on my house plants.

  • 15 years ago

    Perfect Blend is the world leader in biotic fertilizers. Biotic fertilizers are high technology fertilizers that accelerate natural soil fertility by providing focused nutrients for use by soil bacteria. Soil bacteria are the foundation of the regenerative protein cycle - the basis of all natural soil fertility.Perfect Blend accelerates this normally slow cycle to rapidly build natural soil fertility in any soil type regardless of mineral content. Over 90 different types of organic foods are commercially grown with Perfect Blend by some of the world's largest organic and conventional growers.

    Here is a link that might be useful: Perfect Blend Organic & Biotic Fertilizers

  • 15 years ago

    The contents of the fertilizer are more important than the brand. To determine what your lawn needs, get a soil test done. For more info on soil tests and the contents of organic fertilizer, see below URL

    Here is a link that might be useful: Organic Lawns of New England - Using Organic Fertilizer

  • 15 years ago

    Soil bacteria, the Soil Food Web, are important to not only our soils health but to ours. To get a good active Soil Food Web you need to build up the soil you have with organic matter since the soil bcteria, the Soil Food Web, needs organic matter to live. When first starting, for the first 3 to maybe 5 years, one might have a need to add something that could get more soil bacteria into their soil, because it can take time for them to regenerate naturally, but if the soil does not have enough organic matte to support that Soil Food Web adding some commercial "fertilizer" is not going to help much if at all. For those of use with ample quantities of organic matter in the soil, and that has been there for a while, adding some commercial "fertilizer" will not do much, if anything since our soil is good and healthy already and a good reliable soil test will show that, soil pH in the proper range and a balanced nutrient supply in the soil.

  • 11 years ago

    John Marler has it! As he posted July 3, 2011, there's nothing like a well made biotic fertilizer.
    There's no way to come close to building your soul quickly and in a balanced way like biotic fertilizers do it. This is because they will put everything into the soil that bacteria need, including the bacteria, fungi, etc. plus the food (minerals) to feed the microbes and get them to grow exponentially. Then, as the massive buildup of bacteria mostly die, their billions of bodies are the perfect mix of minerals, in the perfect organic form, to feed plants. You have almost immediate humus built right inside your soil, not in a compost heap waiting to cure but losing most of it's nitrogen and carbon to the air in the meantime.

    Another brand besides Perfect Blend Organics is EarthWorks.
    For more on the science of it, the link is

    Here is a link that might be useful: Biotic Fertilizers - a first lesson in detail

  • 11 years ago

    Humus is the undigested organic matter left in soil after the Soil Food Web works on what they want. Spending money on products that are supposed to "add" humus to soil is generally a waste of money since most sources of humus, organic matter, can be obtained for free.
    About the only people that benefit from selling things like this are the people selling it.

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