Understanding The Importance of Organic Gardening Fertilizer

Organic gardening fertilizer is a must have thing if you are planning to create your own organic garden. Organic fertiliser is an organic based product, which means that this fertilizer is composed of natural elements that can be decomposed in the soil. This organic fertilzer is healthy to humans and also to the environment.

Why use organic fertilizers instead of commercially prepared fertilizers?

There are a lot of answers to that question, and you need to know and understand them so that you will be certain of what are their major differences. Understanding the difference between organic garden fertilizer from a commercially prepared fertilizer will also make you realize their good or bad impacts to the plants, humans, and also to the environment.

1) If you are planning to use organic gardening fertilizer, you do not necessarily spend money because you just have to utilize the wastes from garden and kitchen. But if you are planning to make use of commercially prepared fertilizers, for sure you have to use your money to purchase one.

2) You need to know that organic fertiliser is made up of organic materials that came from natural sources, while commercially prepared fertilisers are composed of chemicals and other inorganic substances. You can make organic fertilizers from compost, animal manures, agricultural by-products and processing wastes, domestic wastes, green manures, and industrial wastes.

3) You also need to understand that when you are using organic fertilizer, you have to apply it in the soil on a regular basis, especially if you are going to apply an organic matter. It takes sometime to decompose the organic matter by biological organisms and turn the organic matter into compost. Biological organisms include the following: algae, protozoa, bacteria, fungi, and earthworms. Commercially prepared fertilizers are applied on a scheduled time, for about every two weeks or depending on the manufacturer's instruction.

4) You can make your own compost from kitchen and garden wastes. The ingredients for your compost include sawdust, soft prunings, tea bags, tree and shrub clippings, leaves of trees, remains of vegetable plant, weeds, ashes from wods, wood shavings, woody prunings, coffee grounds, cardboard, fallen leaves, egg shells, peelings from fruits and vegetables,old straw and hay, grass cuttings, towels and bags made from paper material, rodent bedding, egg boxes that are made up of paper, plant material, and manure from rabbit, cow, pigeon, and horse.

5) You have to understand that organic gardening fertilizers contain more essential nutrients compared from commercially prepared fertilizers.

6) Organic garden fertilizers improve the condition of the soil. They improve the water-holding capacity of the soil, so that there will be more or sufficient amounts of water ready for absorption by the organic garden plants.

7) Organic fertilizers also improves the soil's ability to hold nutrients so that the soil can hold enough nutrients for the growing organic garden plants. Organic garden plants need enough nutrients so that they can grow and flourish well.

8) Inorganic fertilizers or commercially prepared fertilizers can be drained easily, especially when heavy rain occurs. And, nitrogen is the nutrient that can be easily drained from the soil.