Organic fertiliser?

[Chiana]

Great thread, but I'm getting a headache trying to work out what's best to use for what! Any chance of someone simplifying things for me please? For example, I've been adding the manure from my sons Organic Guinea Pigs to the compost, but if I make a "tea" from it, what do I do with it?

[smallblueplanet]

Don't drink it!

Just use it as a diluted liquid feed?

[robD]

I think I've heard of the product idea, but never seen it - do you have a link rob? (I think it seems an odd idea to add 'rocks' to your garden! )

SEER Centre home of ROCKDUST

Although I bought it from Organic Gardening Catalogue with our Association order - despite the weight still got free postage

[hawthorns]

im going to use the liquid i get from my new bokashi system. i think its similar to wormery liquid.

[Chiana]

Don't drink it!

Just use it as a diluted liquid feed?

That's a relief!

[Protea]

Don't forget good old green manures as fertilisers! mustard, clover, rye grass etc, all add or recycle nutrients in the soil and really are an essential part of gardening (regardless of the size of the O in organic!!)

Garlic preparations are also used as a 'foliar feed/tonic', some also contain mixtures of seaweed and citrus extracts.

seed meal (pelletised remains of seeds from things like oil seed rape and mustard) are a fantastic source of organic N, they're bulky products so you're also adding lots of organic matter to the soil at the same time. YOu use them before planting and wait a certain amount of time for them to break down. Currently they're most often used as cattle feed, but are starting to be used by commercial growers and will eventually filter down to home gardeners, although there's no reason why you can't buy a bag from a merchant. Care needs to be taken as depending on the process used to extract the oil from the seed, gasses can be given off by the meal that is toxic to plants. Some are advertised as only having to wait 14 days for example and have soil amendment effects too (biofumigant).