Organic Fertilizing : Organic Vs. Chemical Fertilizers

Chemical fertilizers can actually cause damage to your plants. Learn about the difference between organic and chemical fertilizer in this free gardening video about how to use organic fertilizers on plants.

Expert: Michael Clark
Contact: www.tropicofcapricornsantafe.com
Bio: Michael Clark is a trained horticulturist with a B.S. in agriculture and a strong sense of responsibility for the natural world. He is the co-founder of the Santa Fe Botanical Garden.
Filmmaker: melissa jenkins

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[emforty2]

non-organic is only for the lazy

or greed crazed corporation who cares about profits than health

nature is organic how can you argue about that

[abyssquick]

I'm going to have to disagree with previous posters--

I opt most often for organic gardening because it has several advantages.

1. It is dynamic. You are learning about the structure of soils and chemical composition of nature. Very utilitarian.

2. You are creating more nutrient dense food. No question about this.

3. You are creating an ecosystem, learning to control it in your favor.

It is a hands-on course in ecology and biology. As a biologist, it is fascinating to learn from nature.

[teamsourcesalkoasia]

Always go or use organic fertilizer it won't harm our nature. It's an high time to think the natural solution for fertilizing plants.

[TheProphetNabob]

1. Compost is composed of chemicals. It is a howling idiocy to pit "chemical" fertilizers against "organic" fertilizers. N is N, P is P and K is K.

2. Dissolved N P and K is not "a direct line of shooting energy into the plant." That is an ignorant comment. Energy comes from the sun, not elements.

3. If it were true that "chemical" plants were fed just the three nutrients N P and K, the plants wouldn't grow.

4. Organic farming is a religion.

[YouthQuake04]

I agree with Organic, but this video doesn't directly address the pros vs cons. It simply says 'Organic is good; Chemicals are bad'. I'd like to see more videos breaking down the ecological & biological pros & cons so that people UNDERSTAND the difference.

[workwithnature]

Organic rocks,

It is the best of natures bounty

[2012stargirl]

Prescot Bush, The Rockefellers, and I G Farbin were behind Chemical Fertilizer Industry . They also funded Hitler in WW2 ..They are made from coal tar and crude oil.(Ammonium Nitrate , Ammonium Sulfate) HIGHLY TOXIC. !! linked to Alzheimers and cancer!..Use organic its much safer..

[smb12321]

I grow organic (continual composting) but if our nation had to rely on organic food we'd starve after running out of money! LOL Organic is expensive because it is so labor intensive. It does not produce in quantity or size that fertilizer does. Also, many fertilizer are "friendly" (unlike the old days). Finally, farmers using fertilizer do not have to select only certain plants to use - they can grow almost anything.

[Yorkcityknight]

There's more to fertilisers than N,P & K.

The roles of secondary and micro-nutrients are just as critical to crop yield and quality and can be provided by no other way than foliar fertiliser application.

Like it or not, fertiliser application is here to stay in one form or another... and as an increasingly expensive and sparing resource it's use is becoming more discrete with every passing year. Just look at the growth of GPS fertiliser application for proof.

[000iraqialia1]

i dont know how i buy that i hope someone tall me

[ic300x]

I only use chemical fertilizers during vegetative growth

[thestonerz3]

Alaska Fish Fertilizer, 5-1-1 & Alaska Morbloom, 0-10-10, & i compost everything. i have used miraclegro, but only 1/2 or 1/4 of the recommended mix.