What exactly is an organic fertilizer?

Culture Indoor explains you what is an organic fertilizer, their compositions 100% organic, their effects, their recommendations in organic farming, discover ecological and efficient growing methods.

Normally, a fertilizer or fertilizer "said bio" and or a fertilizer or fertilizer "natural" are synonyms and refer to organic fertilizers said 100% biological, ie they are fertilizers from living matter, animal or plant.

Natural fertilizers and organic fertilizers can be prepared yourself or bought ready-made in the shops in bottles for liquid fertilizers, in bags or pots for powdered fertilizers, granulated or in amendments and with slow decomposition for a slow fertilization of your plants and gardens, as an example the bat guano decompose over 8 to 10 weeks of cultures, however, gardeners, farmers, growers, horticulturists, purely organic growers tend to trust us and the fertilizers that they can possibly prepare themselves, thinking they are alchemists of organic farming.

The main organic fertilizers that can often be used by these organic gardeners are often wood ash, green manure, they make their home-made compost with grandmother's recipes, discover their manufacturing of plant purins like nettle purins, comfrey purins as well as fern purins and garlic purins practical for the long-term treatment of organic crops . The purines are effective products for certain disease or pathogen controls in your gardens or on your plants and remain 100% organic treatments. Apartment gardeners, indoor growers, terrace or balcony, grow in a grow cabinet to get 100% organic crops 365 days a year thanks to the new indoor gardening methods. Or you too can make 100% organic fertilizers at home with your own hands.

Organic fertilizer

Culture Indoor cites an example of wood ash used in organic agriculture by gardeners.

Did you know that wood ash is a fertilizer?

It is a fertilizer which brings potassium and phosphorus.
This fertilizer is mainly rich in potash, and a little less in phosphorus, this ash-based fertilizer also contains calcium. You should know that wood ash is used as a fertilizer for your plants even if it may surprise you and leave you skeptical. The fine and powdery texture is applied as an amendment and also lightens the sometimes heavy and unbalanced soils for your crops.

If you use wood ash, be careful not to use just any ash or any method for application to your plants and gardens.

When using ash as a fertilizer, you must first make sure that you burn only untreated and unpainted wood and plant waste. Do not add old newspapers or magazines. Otherwise your ash will not be organic! And it may even be toxic for your plants.

For what types of plants can we use wood ash in our gardens?

Wood ash is an excellent fertilizer for your lawns, tomatoes, melons, potatoes, leafy greens and many other interesting vegetables to grow organically in your gardens.

How to use organic wood ash?

The ash is to be used in very small quantities. Be careful not to use more than 4 handfuls per m² per year and never in calcareous soil, otherwise it will be too much.

Organic fertilizer : you are looking for recipes to make your own organic fertilizer for your house plants or your indoor vegetable garden ?

You should know that there are also some grandmother recipes to make 100% organic fertilizers for green plants or for flowering plants, flowers, fruits, vegetables on the balcony, terrace or in the growing cabinet for the pleasure of gardening all year round at home.

For example, vegetable cooking water, as well as hard-boiled or boiled egg water, are excellent homemade formulations to bring minerals and trace elements to your plants, which is essential for your plants, provided only that the water is not too salty. Use the cooled water to water the plants and it will work very well.

It is also possible to water your plants with leftover tea, coffee, wine, or even with the water from your aquarium if you have one and yes many things are possible in organic and urban gardening.

Coffee grounds can enrich your crops when repotting larger containers.

What exactly isorganic agriculture?

Everything you need to know aboutorganic agriculture is important.

Organic farming is a production method that finds its originality in the use of cultivation and breeding practices that respect natural balances and the environment. And in this way, it totally excludes the use of synthetic chemicals, GMOs and limits the use of inputs.

The benefits that society can derive from organic farming are multiple in terms of creating activities and jobs, preserving the quality of soil, biodiversity, air and water. This mode of production allows for full-scale experimentation of innovative practices that respect the environment and that are likely to be developed more widely in agriculture. Its processing methods emphasize the natural characteristics of the products.

Organic farming

UAB fertilizers

We see everywhere fertilizers stamped UAB without really knowing its exact definition.

What does UAB mean?

UAB = Usable in Organic Agriculture.

In general, the term " organic" encompasses anything that is related to or derived from living organisms.

In the garden fertilizer industry, organic simply means what grows naturally. Organic is grown without any chemical or mineral based additives or fertilizers. From a chemical perspective, organic refers to the way carbon-based molecules act and react in all types of compounds and materials.

With respect to food, in order to be officially designated as organic according to current legislation and certifications, fertilizers and stimulants must be produced without the use of hormones, antibiotics (except for medical purposes), synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.

Organic farming also prohibits the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and processes such as irradiation.

Simply put, organic farming allows nature to do what it does best. It is therefore a culture based on holistic and ecologically balanced agricultural principles, based on soil fertility, crop rotation and pest control by natural means, which is essential to preserve our fragile planet.

If a farmer cultivates with organic products and fertilizers, he will never use pesticides or synthetic fertilizers on his organic crops and he will avoid using synthetic hormones..

Organic farming is simply the obvious choice.

Industrial chemical fertilizers destroy the natural, living elements of the soil rather than multiplying them. Once the soil is depleted by this quick fix, these industrial chemicals are washed into the water table and destroy or alter wildlife, algae and coral reefs.

Residues of these chemicals and pesticides can also end up in some of the products we eat.

Feeding organic fruits, vegetables, or herbs grown without the use of chemicals or pesticides can strengthen the immune system of animals and even help them recover from illness.

In our opinion, agriculture must escape from the laboratory and rediscover its roots in organic farming for the good of the Earth, of all the beings that inhabit it and always with the aim of preserving their future on this fragile planet.

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What is a green manure or named green manure?

Did you know that the term "green manure" refers to temporary crops of fast-growing plants, intended to cover the soil between two cultivations of a plot, then to be cut and buried in the soil to enrich it naturally with nutrients.

Associated with crop rotation, the green manure technique is used on large areas in agriculture, as well as on vegetable plots in gardening.

Advantages of this fertilizer

A green manure planting not only provides nutrients, but also a vegetal cover to the soil, which :

significantly reduces weed growth and avoids the need for herbicides before recultivation;
fixes nitrogen in the soil;
reduces soil erosion and improves the physical structure of the soil: the soil is aerated and decompacted by the action of the roots;
free or almost free: only costs the price of the seeds.

What does green manure mean? Which plants are used as green manure ?

Plants used as green manure

Discover thanks to culture indoor your specialist garden and organic fertilizer that the plants used as green manure are often clover, vetch, phacelia, mustard, rape and alfalfa Did you know that? Do you know other plants that can be used as green manure?

Most of the time, only one plant is used for a plot of land, but there are also ready-made mixtures of several plants, for example red clover, vetch and oats for a particularly nitrogen-rich mixture adapted to your organic plants and gardens.

Where to buy organic seeds of these rare plants?

You can buy seeds of clover, vetch, phacelia, mustard, rape and alfalfa from companies specialized in the sale of seeds, in the big distribution channels, especially in DIY or gardening stores like indoor culture the leader of urban gardens in France and in Europe, the specialist of organic seeds, he became the leader of gardening with deliveries in 24h, your gardens will not have any more time to be thirsty of organic fertilizers.

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Green fertilizer : how to use it ?

green fertilizer on seedlings for example.

Sowing time: Green manure is sown as soon as a crop is finished in order to occupy the soil without delay: either in spring, before the first plantings, or in late summer or fall, after a harvest.

Sowing technique: We start by lightly scratching the surface of the soil. The seeds are broadcast, then very lightly buried by raking.

The green manure thus buried in the soil decomposes quickly, providing the plot of plants with humus and nitrogen, thus a fertilizer and green manure for organic farming.

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Or brun organic fertilizer
General organic fertilizer
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Hydropassion organic fertilizer
Pachamama organic fertilizer
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How do organic fertilizers work in amendment?

Amending means that you have to prepare your soil before growing your plants and enrich it with NPK fertilizer, discover what is an organic NPK fertilizer or mineral NPK fertilizer.

What is organic fertilizer ?
A fertilizer in suspension, allows to hold the fertilizer in suspension and that it does not become active once mixed with water or soil directly

Is an organic fertilizer as efficient as a mineral fertilizer?
I would say yes because with the new organic technologies the organic fertilizer has made great strides and allows you today to obtain harvests almost as abundant as with non organic mineral fertilizers.

You should know that there are mineral inputs certified and adaptable to organic agriculture under the EC regulation

What does the NOP definition mean ?
NOP is an organic certification standard for the USA.

What does the OMRI label mean?
The omri label is a label for organic food in the USA.

What does ecofert mean ?
Ecofert for ecofertiliser, a French charter and label allowing to certify fertilizer manufacturers on their low consumption in effect and or little expenditure in carbon tax and to fulfill certain conditions ofecological bottling

What does natural fertilizer mean?
An organic fertilizer without chemicals.

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