Garden fertilizer

[JoHo]

What is the best fertilizer for a small garden? The garden will have mostly tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers.

[Buckwabit]

Triple 13 used gently or triple 8 used liberally...That's what I use

[Blake Williamson]

Triple 13 used gently or triple 8 used liberally...That's what I use

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And cow crap (HOME GROWN) makes mirical grow look like childs play in the mater bed!!!

[kevinw]

My neighbor is an elderly gent that grows an awesome garden uses chicken litter from Cal-Maine on his. Makes our place literally smell like crap for a few days.

[SwampMan]

My neighbor is an elderly gent that grows an awesome garden uses chicken litter from Cal-Maine on his. Makes our place literally smell like crap for a few days.

Gee, wonder why?

[Dux Be Us]

Osmocult (sp) small pellet thingys...works great on everything

[brandon327]

Chicken crap, use sparingly as it will burn some plants up if you are not careful. It builds the soil up unlike commercial fertilizer.

[Mark Sehon]

Chicken crap - the best.

[MudHog]

Ideally: compost amended into the soil

If your growing a garden, then you have scraps that you can compost yourself. Just make sure you tumble it to get air mixed in.


Cow manure is mostly nitrogen. Chicken or rabbit manure would be a much more balanced fertilizer. P and K don't go anywhere and build up in the soil over time. Nitrogen leaches and gets consumed faster and you spend more time replacing nitrogen than anything else. Be more concerned about Ph over fertilizing and use lime to control Ph. P and K is more root and N is more foliage.


Miracle Grow is alot cheaper than using over priced Osmocote. Osmocote Vegetable is just triple 14 (your better off just buying Triple 13). Regular Osmocote for flowers is 19-6-12.

[Wingman]

I could dig you up a load of catfish pond dirt. It puts chicken poop to shame. Lol.

[dukmisr2005]

I could dig you up a load of catfish pond dirt. It puts chicken poop to shame. Lol.

yea it does. we water a 20 acre rice field out of a fish pond one year. it was nearly black it was so green, stooled out really good, and never once applied any N. cut 230 bpa.