organic Organic Recommendations Please...

[lidawn]

Okay, a real question concerning peppers....

ordinarily my pepper plants flourish like crazy, very rapidly and produce early.

this year, i was give my pepper plants by a friend of a friend who owns green houses and sells at farmer markets and such.

they are not flourishing early or growing rapidly or producing. yet.

maybe i need some fertilizer.
i prefer to be organic (i know... most are technically organic).
what do you all recommend for me????

rest of garden (except carrots) is going crazy!!!!

I did plant in the same spot as last year. but early in spring about a month or month and a half before planting, the entire garden got a wealthy dose of compost and cow poop.

thanks in advance!

 

[thepodpiper]

It could be that the plants you were given were subjected to below acceptable temps early on and may be stunted. They may recover or they may not if that is the case.

 

[Pepper Ridge Farm]

Bone meal. This stuff will take your sickly plants and make huge green bushes out of them.

 

[mrmulcher]

i use neptunes harvest fish emulsion and seaweed extract however this year i have been used composted chicken manure and i am like OMG i have already picked two batches of peppers and about to pick about a bushel of beans and tomatoes

 

[POTAWIE]

I also like the fish emulsion(high nitrogen type) and seaweed(kelp) as well as cow and chicken manure

 

[ABurningMouth]

I also like the fish emulsion(high nitrogen type) and seaweed(kelp) as well as cow and chicken manure

Mmmm- That does sound tasty.

 

[Silver_Surfer]

Composted chicken manure is da sh!!!!!!t

 

[joeknowsjolokia]

Composted chicken manure is da sh!!!!!!t

I just bought some in a box! Smells just like it anyways!

 

[Silver_Surfer]

I just bought some in a box! Smells just like it anyways!

Thankfully mine is a free byproduct.

My composted sh!t don't stink.

 

[joeknowsjolokia]

Thankfully mine is a free byproduct.

My composted sh!t don't stink.

:[

 

[AlabamaJack]

My composted sh!t don't stink.

ROFLMAO - liar, liar, pants on fire....

 

[lidawn]

LOL. hey, thanks everyone!

i was reading through the older posts on here and read a lot about epsom salts. I take it you're all not thinking that this is the cure?

Is the goal potassium? Or Nitrates?

or just the sh*t? LOL. Cause I could poop on it myself... LOL... j/k

I was just about to work a little epsom into the soil when i decided to log back in to check out the comments.

I have bone meal on hand anywyay, but will that just make them bushy? or does it promote fruit also?

Seriously the things are 1/2 the size of my tomato plants. They (pepper plants) are starting to produce fruit, but they are like midget plants!!!! Very frustrating.

If they don't grow, then I want everyone on this website to send me a box of peppers this summer!!!!!

:-D