I recently Tweeted about fertilizing container gardens and asked for feedback about what other gardeners do. I received many different responses, including:
- @containergarden: I use fish emulsion and seaweed combo. Also mix in Bradfield Organics’ All Purpose fertilizer into soil.
- @DebraLBaldwin: For succulents, add 1 T timed release fertilizer per gallon of cactus mix. Liquid fert @ 1/2 strength during growing season.
- @MulchMaven: Container fert.: growing mix w/worm castings and slow release fertilizer works great for me! Also bat guano. <not kidding>
- @Elle_Ann: When potting, I mix good organic soil mix w/ worm compost. Sometimes also add organic 4-4-4 (powder) but not consistently.
- @VantagePointeSD: Fish emulsion! It just smells like it’s working magic! Often add coffee grounds, too.
This isn’t really the time of year to fertilize anything other than indoor plants (at least not for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere). But for some odd reason I’ve been thinking about fertilizers lately. Probably because my plants are totally confused by the weird weather we’ve been having and it’s been hard for me to resist giving them fertilizer when I see them putting out new leaves, flowers and fruit.
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