Organic Fertilizer

We first figured that the compost in the soil mixture would be enough to fertilize the plants, but then decided to supplement the soil with organic fertilizers.  We added the following components; we scratched powdered fertilizer into the top one inch of soil, and we diluted concentrated solutions in a watering can and watered-in.

• Fish emulsion (whole garden)
• Blood meal (whole garden)
• Bone meal (whole garden)
• Tomato fertilizer ("Mater Magic") (around the tomatoes)
• Epsom salt (around the tomatoes and peppers)
• Kelp solution (whole garden)

The tomato fertilizer is a little redundant; it contains meat meal, hydrolyzed feather meal, bone meal, blood meal, and sulfate of potash 5-5-9 plus 4.5 calcium.  The plants have perked up in the warmer days, but I like to think the fertilizer and associated effort helped.