Organic Plant Food - Healthy Treat for Plants

If you are a seasoned gardener, but new to Organic Gardening, you are probably accustomed to using sprays, fertilizers, and other chemicals to raise plants. You have used these wonderful products on indoor house plants, in the herb garden, and in the vegetable garden. You can’t imagine getting the same huge blossoms and produce with organic plant food.

Organic plant food has many advantages, however, which you will come to appreciate as you use it. Above all, you will appreciate giving your plants a healthy treat rather than chemical-laced food.

Advantages of Organic Plant Food

* Organic plant food spreads more slowly, delivering a stable, steady release of nutrients to your plants. They will not go from underfed to overfed and back to underfed in a matter of days. The nutrition will come at a more consistent rate.

* Organic plant food supplies a number of micronutrients that your plants need, but that are not found in chemically produced plant food.

* Organic plant food serves as an effective soil conditioner. By supplying needed organic compounds, it keeps the soil friable.

Disadvantages of Chemical Plant Food

* Fertilizers with chemical compounds usually cause an unwanted accumulation of inorganic salt. This can greatly affect soil condition, which in turn will affect the development and health of your plants. Inorganic salt build up will also decrease the population of helpful microbial and soil insects. While organic plant food can have minor build-up of insoluble salts, less harm is done to the soil.

* If you use chemical rather than organic plant food, you can easily burn your plants. The chemical-based fertilizer, being released quickly into the soil, can harm roots. In addition, application of too much chemical-based fertilizer will also burn plants. Organic plant food, being released slowly, does not present this danger.

Switching from chemical fertilizers to organic plant food can be a challenge, but the reward is healthy plants and healthy soil.