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Phil: So we talk about fertilizers, how about you go first.
H: Okay, so first of all when you are picking a fertilizer you donÕt want to in your garden
center and pick up something like miracle grow. We donÕt want to have the toxic chemicals
particularly when we are spraying it on food plants. We personally donÕt believe in supporting
a company like ScottÕs. Phil: I am a big fan of ScottÕs.
H: Well, I am a big fan of ScottÕs even though they do some organic stuff, a lot of things
like miracle grow fertilizers like this are big in macronutrients like NPK and is really
interesting history of why conventional fertilizers focus on NPK but we want a more broad selection
of nutrients, so we want trace minerals, micronutrients, all the other amazing things that fertilizer
will do for us so. Phil: We went to the garden center today and
we were trying to, again we didnÕt have ingredients on their fertilizer which is crazy, most I
mean in North America, you are going to be able to read the ingredients, so you are gonna
want to go for organic fertilizer but I am actually going to stir you away from going
and buying just like a general purpose organic fertilizer.
H: What sort of fertilizers do you use? Phil: Well my favorite is ocean water or if
you donÕt live by the ocean you can buy it a very concentrated low sodium chloride ocean
water. ItÕs full of 80 plus trace minerals that have made their way into the ocean so
itÕs very good for getting broad spectrum nutrition, so if you need chromium in your
life or molybdenum in your life you get into your soil onto your plants, eat those plants
then you have nutrition. So it is that there is liquid [indiscernible 01:45] which is very
similar, has lots of nutrients in it and then there is [indiscernible 01:50] growing up
to us.
Nobody even know or tell me right now although, and there is like any kind of sugar molasses
sugar, coca cola, all these things are great for us. Well, actually molasses is okay for
us but the rest are not great for us they are actually just being onto your plants.
So those are the main things I use. Now I am kind of health nut so you probably pretty
much never drink coke. I even had a coke for ever but if you have
coke I donÕt mind it as a fertilizer because it has sugar which feed the biology, feeds
the microorganisms in the soil. It has phosphorus, it has carbon, so just I donÕt know I have
never figure out the ratio for containers but I would say mix it with 20 parts of water.
So take a little bit of coke mix it with 20 times much water, water your plants with them
and thatÕs going to provide a lot of food for the microbes which in turn are going to
take that food and make available for plants. Container Gardening Series - My Favorite Organic
Fertilizers