Fertilizing Fruit Trees
Contrary to popular belief, fruit trees need fertilizer in order to thrive. June/July is the best time to fertilize your trees. It’s surprisingly easy, I’ll show you what to use and how to do it using organic materials
Three ingredients are required: Blood Meal, Bone Meal, and Azomite.
I bought all of my materials from a nursery company online, you can find most of this stuff on Amazon or locally. I’ll provide Amazon links below.
These three materials are mixed together in equal parts. Each adult tree will get 2 cups. Young trees should get one cup.
These links are for 50 pound bags each, so you’ll end up with 150 pounds of fertilizer.
1 pound =1/2 cup roughly. So you can fertilize about 37 adult fruit trees with this mixture.
I doubt you have that many fruit trees, but before you freak out, this stuff is GOLD for any vegetable, plant, or bush in your yard. You can use it in your flower beds, indoor potted plants, wherever you need to give some plants a quick boost.
It’s ok to have extra trust me.
Also, if you’re interested in starting your own plants from seed, these are the main ingredients for making super dank potting soil. Read more about that here.
Here are the three ingredients:
Blood Meal - Down To Earth Blood Meal is a fifty pound bag of all natural fertilizer with 12-0-0 formula and is listed by the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) for use in organic production
Bone Meal - Down To Earth Fish Bone Meal is a fifty pound bag of all natural fertilizer with 4-12-0 formula and is listed by the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) for use in organic production
Azomite - AZOMITE is a natural mineral substance which is mined directly from its Utah desert source. OMRI-Listed for organic production, AZOMITE can be used as an agricultural fertilizer and/or soil amendment product, It is easy and safe to use and good for the environment.
Take these three materials and mix them together in equal parts in a bucket or plastic bin.
Get a cup and pour it around the base of your tree. Water it in with a bucket of water or a hose. You can do this right before a rain and let Mother do the work.
It’s this easy…
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Important Note:
The bone meal and blood meal will attract critters like trash pandas, possums, and more so make sure you store your this stuff in an air tight container and keep in a safe place before and after application.
I would put each ingredient into a plastic storage container with a lid.
It’s also important to water the mix into the ground right after you put it down, because animals will be attracted to it and scratch around your trees.
You only need to do this once a year. Thanks for reading, good luck growing healthy trees anon!
Please note, for the autists out there, I screwed up the calculations. You can fertilize roughly 40 adult trees with 150 pounds of fertilizer, lol!