Fish Fertilizer 101

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The idea of fish fertilizer may sound strange. How can fish provide a food source for my plants? But it shouldn’t come as any surprise that like all other natural products, fish can be a great fertilizer. Chock-full of vitamins, amino acids, proteins and more, fish fertilizers are organic. They offer other micronutrients which standard NPK fertilizers lack. Yes, they can have a fishy smell to them, but once diluted, the smell fades quickly. And your plants will love them. You’ll grow to love them too! Interested? Let’s dive into the wonderful world of fish fertilizers and supplements. We’ll discuss the benefits that these can provide to us. I’ve even got a great story from a pro who relates the story of his first experience making some! And even if you don’t want to make it, I can help you find places to buy it in the US and beyond. Recommended Fish Meals: Down To Earth Fish Meal Fertilizer Down To Earth Fish Bone Meal Recommended Fish Emulsions: Alaska Fish Emulsion Fertilizer Fertilome Fish Emulsion Fertilizer Recommended Hydrolized Fish Fertilizers: Neptune’s Harvest Hydrolyzed Fish Fertilizer GS Plant Foods Hydrolyzed Fish Fertilizer Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. Today we are talking about a fish fertilizer so what it is and how to use it. So the idea of using fish in the garden might sound a little strange.
0:13.5	You know, how can a fish provide food source for my plants?
0:16.8	But really it should not come as any surprise.
0:19.3	Fish can be a great fertilizer, they're chock full of vitamins,
0:22.2	amino acids, proteins, and more.
0:24.3	They are certainly organic.
0:26.4	Fish are definitely an organic material.
0:28.5	And they offer other micronutrients which standard NPK style fertilizers typically lack.
0:34.8	However, there are a few different types or formulations or methods of creating fish fertilizer.
0:40.6	So that's what we're going to talk about today. What are the different types?
0:44.0	Well, first you've got fish meal.
0:47.0	So fish meal is a byproduct of the production of fish oils.
0:50.0	And it's created by cooking and pressing fish and then drying and grinding the meat and the bone.
0:56.5	While it's not composted, the fishmeal fertilizer, it's often used as a nice soil amendment.
1:02.0	A lot of the times you'll find it at the store in
1:04.0	compressed cakes or in a loose meal form and it's basically just like a fine
1:09.0	brownish material and it's pretty easily worked in through soil just because of the way that it's
1:14.2	created. Next you've got fish emulsion. That's a really common question of
1:19.3	what is fish emulsion? There are two different variations of the fish emulsion process. So most
1:26.2	commercial fish emulsion begins with fish meal, what we just talked about. The meal that is
1:31.7	left over from oil extraction will get put
1:33.9	through a steam bath that is going to extract proteins from the meal which
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