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What Is In Fertilizer With Trace Elements?

People also need minerals and vitamins. And so do plants. They need "trace elements" like Copper and Iron and Zinc and many more, and other substances, in small amounts. Just like our minerals and vitamins.

You can buy bags or bottles of fertilizers that have "added trace elements".

So now you are feeding your kids protein shakes and vitamin tablets. Hm. The ideal diet? Not really...

Ok, what else have we got?

What Is Organic Fertilizer?

There are natural, organic fertilizers that aren't made by mixing chemicals together. Organic fertilizers are made by mixing natural ingredients, ingredients that are naturally high in N or P or K or all of them, and that also contain trace elements.

 

Chicken poo or blood and bone meal or fish extract and things like that. They contain the NPK in varying ratios, and some trace elements, and maybe other gobbledigook like growth factors, auxins, macromolecules, enzymes...

A bit like mixing herbal supplements and vegetable extracts and the like with your meal replacement diet. Certainly better than just NPK.

However, it's still easily possible to get the balance wrong, especially if you don't know what exactly is in that bag and what exactly your plants need.

Maybe it's theoretically possible to grow reasonably healthy kids on a diet like that, if you do add enough different herb, fruit and vegetable extracts, in a high quality form where most of the goodness in them is actually preserved. And if you really understand what you are doing there, what EXACTLY the kids need!

But it is getting a bit difficult now, isn't it? Tricky and expensive...

Many people think they have to learn all that to fertilize plants correctly.