你需要食物. 你的植物需要食物. 你需要健康的食物. 他们也是，尤其是那些有一天会的人 be 你的健康食物. 我们可以帮你.

After yielding to temptation and loading up at our seed racks, continue down the aisle towards the 熟食店 and you're met with a tidy but probably less inspiring display of our garden dry goods: soils, 化肥, 有机害虫防治, 小型手工工具, 诸如此类. All useful, sure, but less fun than the seeds – and reminders that this gardening thing is work!

Anyway, this is where you’ll find your garden’s buffet table. There’s a wall of neat brown boxes facing the seeds, 15 varieties of 主要是-organic 化肥 and soil conditioners with retro illustrations that give clues to what's inside or what they're for. These are from Down To Earth Distributors in Eugene, 俄勒冈州, a "green lifestyle" company that manufactures or distributes a majority of our dry goods and 化肥.

If you're reading this I presume you can read a box, but today I’ll give a short blurb on each that you can further investigate on the Google from the comfort of your home. 当你研究的时候, educate yourself on the N-P-K numbers found on most packaged 化肥 (the three hyphenated numbers following the name) if you don’t know them already; it will really help you decipher this article!

I apologize that I don't have space to go into them in-depth here, 但快速的“n”肮脏:氮(n), 第一个数字是绿色增长, 磷(P, the second) for roots and flowers and Potassium/potash (K, 第三)为植物的整体强度和活力. Different plants have different needs and our selection covers most of them.

肥料混合

好了，开始吧! The mixes first, and the first three are our bestsellers:

混合酸4-3-4

Put on your tie-dye and apply these groovy granules to your blueberries and other acid-loving plants like rhododendrons, 绣球花, 大多数常青树. Apply in early spring for strong green growth, then again when blooms appear. Contains cottonseed and 鱼骨粉s, 无水钾镁矾, 磷矿石s, 腐殖酸, 还有海带粉.

通用的4-6-2

The name says it – if you don't want to fuss and just need something that's organic and works for pretty much everything, 就是这个. Maybe the rest of this article is suddenly pointless! 鱼骨粉, 血, 羽毛粉, 苜蓿草粉, 磷矿石, 无水钾镁矾, 腐殖酸, 还有海带粉.

菜园4-4-4

相对较新的产品，好评如潮, perfect NPK balance that works for leafy greens and tomatoes alike. 鱼骨粉, 苜蓿草粉, 羽毛粉, 无水钾镁矾, 玄武岩, 硫酸钾, 白云石石灰, 还有海带粉. 有机.

Bio-Fish 7-7-2

这是一种更丰富的混合物，适合玉米等重饲料动物, 油菜和番茄, 它在滋养植物的同时也滋养了土壤. 鱼骨粉, 鱼粉, 羽毛粉, sulfate of potash, 苜蓿草粉, 腐殖酸, 还有海带粉. 有机.

Bio-Live 5-4-2

去年我们刚推出，我试了一下，印象很深刻. It contains most of the usual suspects – 鱼骨粉, 鱼粉, 苜蓿草粉, 无水钾镁矾, 腐殖酸, 还有海带粉和蟹粉, 虾吃, and our special guest stars: mycorrhizal fungi and beneficial bacteria! 好吃。. The myco stuff attaches to roots almost like a prosthesis to take up more water and nutrients, 使植物生长更旺盛. 棒极了，有机的.

素食混合3-2-2

No ground-up critters or their by-products in this mix! A mild, all-purpose feed that you can feel good about and get great results while you're at it. 含豆粕, 印楝籽粉, 苜蓿草粉, 磷矿石, 无水钾镁矾, 湿砂, 腐殖酸, 还有海带粉. 有机的,自然的.

玫瑰 & 花4-8-4

氮、钾平衡，P值越高越好, more abundant blooms on your roses and most other flowering plants including bulbs, 一年生植物, 和多年生植物. 鱼骨粉, 血, 无水钾镁矾, 苜蓿草粉, 海鸟粪便, 磷矿石, 腐殖酸, 还有海带粉. 有机.

3-3-3混合

对你的孩子来说真是好东西! Milder than most of the mixes so as not to burn delicate sprouts, and with that mycorrhizae stuff to provide jet fuel for the developing roots. 苜蓿草粉, 鱼骨粉, 无水钾镁矾, 牡蛎壳, 玄武岩, 羽毛粉, 腐殖酸, 海带粉, 以及内生菌根真菌. 有机.

单独肥料

除了混合物, these single ingredients allow you to create your own custom mix(es), enhance one you're already using or enjoy them on their own with an adult beverage (kidding, 请别):

苜蓿粉2.5-0.5-2.5

Soil conditioner with trace elements and natural growth stimulants. For flowering shrubs, especially roses, and often used with the 玫瑰 & Flower fertilizer to supplement what's already there. Many rose growers swear by it and it's safe to use lots of it, so why not? 也是有用的堆肥生物活化剂. 有机.

Azomite 0-0-0.2

开采自犹他州一座死火山, azomite is called "the A to Z of trace minerals" – over 70, 事实上. 微量元素, 对土壤健康至关重要, 被植物消耗，然后被冲走, 特别是在轻质土壤中, 所以时不时地把它们加回来是很好的. 在堆肥和盆栽土壤中也很好, helping your plants unlock the nutrition in 化肥 and the soil itself. 有机.

鱼骨粉4-12-0

Phosphorous is an essential plant nutrient for root growth, 味蕾, 和华, 这是我的首选来源. 我在秋天用它, 主要是, for garlic and flower bulbs to help them root strongly, and for the flower bulbs to grow bigger and stronger 味蕾和华. Don't overdo phosphorous - I add a little to each individual planting hole, 但我不会在整个地区广播. 有机.

羽毛餐12比0

作为有机成分，氮含量非常高, 非常适合莴苣等绿叶蔬菜, 菠菜, and kale and there's no pesky phosphorous to make them bolt (flower). It releases slowly and is best added to the soil before you plant, not so much during active growth. 有机.

海带餐1比0.1-2

A general tonic for your plants with a misleadingly low N-P-K rating, but it's the K (potash/potassium) that's readily available and makes for stronger, 几乎异常健康的成长. It's kind of magical, really, though I've never met anyone who can explain it very well. 有机.

印楝籽粉6-1-2

叶子植物，包括绿叶植物, with high nitrogen content and low phosphorous so blooming isn't encouraged. I've sold neem products for years (and still do) as safe, organic insecticides and fungicides but it's great fertilizer, 太, and one of our few boxed ingredients that can be steeped to make a foliar tea to spray directly on leaves to feed the plant. 有机.

牡蛎壳

A rich source of calcium that sweetens acid soil and enables better nutrient uptake and, maybe my favorite thing: helps prevent blossom end rot on tomatoes! 有机.好了，伙计们... 整个肮脏的交易. 如果你有问题可以来皇冠博彩找我, need to correct my information or tell me how much you appreciate my informative articles! Ha. garden@skagitfoodcoop.Com也可以.

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