What do people think about using fish emulsion for fertilizer. The bottle tells me to use it every 3-4 weeks. I have tomatos, various peppers, onions, eggplant, brocolli, cauliflower, cabbage, zuccini, and herbs. Will I cause any problems by using this during growing season? Last thing i want to do is hurt the plants.

Thanks

Fish Emulsion fertilizer is made from a certian type of fish(cannot remember name) which some feel is over fished and in danger, it is not made from fish waste as many beleive.

Stay away from FISH BASED fertilizer as it contains chemical fertilizer as does Alaskan Mor-Bloom.

Do Not get it on the plant leaves during the day as it can burn the leaves. Do not over use as with any Nitrogen fertilizer in the Veggie garden.

We use an organic fish emulsion/seaweed tea mixture on our nursery plants in the greenhouses, and it's wonderful stuff (3-2-2). When transplanting, we add willow water to the emulsion (do a search if you need to), and use this both as a transplant boost and foliar spray. Results have been excellent over the years.

Don't worry about using too much. It can't burn.

This stuff is too expensive to use as a soil fertilizer, however, and if you have enough compost in your soil you shouldn't need it.

Most fish emulsions are made from the cooked left over remains of the menhedan fish (cousin to the oily fishes sardines and herring).

The best parts of the menhedan fish are sold off as cat feeds and cosmetic products.

Fish meals are made from more of the better parts of the fish than fish emulsion. Some fish meals contain grounded fish bones, thus richer in calcium and phosphorus.

Fish oils are rich soil microbial foods. They can can use used in brewed aerobic compost tea recipes to build up beneficial fungi for soil building as a soil drench application. Most fish emulsions don't have any fish oils in them.

Fish emulsions are mostly rich in nitrogen and some of the major micronutrients. Seaweed teas are rich in potassium, and over 60 micronutrients. When fish and seaweed products are mixed together, you basically have every nutrient that every plant will ever need!

Keep in mind that no natural fertilizer is a total substitute or replacement for regular, constant composting and mulching for soil building.

All foliar applications (including compost teas, are designed to compliment and enhance the powers of composting, by adding extra beneficial microbes and/or adding extra soluble nutrients for plants to uptake in their foliage faster, while their roots are trying to feed from the soil below.

Yeah, that's what I meant to say. :^O

The Captain has,once again, explained it very nicely. I like to mix bt in when I make a batch of seaweed/fish foliar spray as caterpillars are a big problem in my garden...

If you have fishtanks, can you use the water from when you make water changes in your garden? My husband's hobby is fishkeeping, and we'll have four large tanks running...

Absolutely! Any aquarium water is rich in nitrogen and other micronutrients from the "poop" of aquatic microbes and the fish living in it.