What is the best way (most organic) to fertilize a vegtable garden?
Fertilising the garden is a multi-faceted affair in organic growing. You are literally feeding the life in the soil which in turn converts inorganic and organic molecules into forms the plant roots can use Compost is very important for feeding the soil but you also should be growing green manure crops to add organic matter. These include things like buckwheat in summer, annual rye, clover, cow peas, vetch in spring/fall/winter. Green manure or cover crops are crops grown to mowed down and incorporated into the soil. These do an amazing job of improving all soils. Most soils are deficient in an array of minerals so adding things like rock phosphate, green sand, sul-po-mag, gypsum, lime, etc can be very helpful. You should do a soil test before adding so you know what you are dealing with. Do not use the home rapid tests as they are wildly inaccurate and do not give you the in depth information you need to properly deal with soils organically (There is so much more to soil than NPK and p
