Organic fertilizer

[biddybarn]

I have free range backyard chickens, but I also have a garden, a variety of fruit trees, vines, and bushes. My wife has floweres and shrubs. I've used all of the chicken compost in the vegetable garden, and its doing great. My fruit vines, trees, and bushes have suffered due to a lack of fertilizer for fear of the chickens eating it. Today I found this:

I know that just because it's organic, it doesn't mean that you can eat it, case and point, uranium. However I tried reading up on the product and found this on Amazon:

About this item
Features
All-in-one granular pellets make feeding easier - no yucky, dusty blend here
Poop-free, no-manure, no-manure-odor formula
Contains animal feed-grade ingredients with high-quality, protein-based nitrogen energy
Contains 6 beneficial microbes that biologically enhance
Feeds plant for up to 2 months

Does this mean it's safe for the birds if consumed by the chickens? Would the eggs have to be withdrawn?

 

[lazy gardener]

Why don't you contact the manufacturer?

 

[biddybarn]

I will on Monday. In the mean time, I've been looking at the Iable, I don't see anything that looks harmful, but I'm not a chemist. I also don't see anything that really stands out to be concerned about, just wondering if anyone else does.

Here's the package
http://www.naturescare.com/smg/products/CFLS/naturescare_organicnatural_vegetablefruit_cfl.pdf
Here's the MSDS
http://www.scottsmsds.com/file.php?id=3931

 

[A-K-A]

Why don't you make your own organic fertilizers? Save money and know what is in it to start with. Simple teas of grass clippings and water egg shells dried banana peels and the one i just finished.

http://www.hardcorehomesteading.com/index.php?topic=162.msg1147#new

 

[lazy gardener]

AKA, nice recipe. I often make weed tea to fertilize my garden. If the weeds are tossed into a bucket before they set flower or seeds, you eliminate the weed problem while also producing some high quality, though stinky fertilizer. After using all the tea, the remaining slime can be dumped into the compost pile.

I'm too cheap to use good sardines in the garden. Though, fish from the lake... that would be a great option.

I bought some comfrey plants last summer. They will be used both for chicken feed, and for "instant compost". They mine minerals deep from the soil, and store it in the leaves.

 

[A-K-A]

Thank you - i wouldn't had used sardines but had no other fish available at time. The bulk i strained out and into the compost box. The solution is to be used 4parts water to 1part fish emulsion. So this buck will yield about 20 gallons of product.

I would like to know more about growing Comfrey. Stop back by and share with us.

 

[A-K-A]

C

 

[lazy gardener]

I bought mine from Coe's Comfrey. I believe it's Bocking # 14. This is a Russian cultivar which is sterile, and has a better nutrient mix to allow it to be used for animal feed. You'll need to do the research before deciding to use it for animal fodder.

 

[A-K-A]

Thanks i will research it.

 

[victor568]

why not starting to produce your own organic fertilizer with your animal manure