Heading out to Fort Worth to see some friends and to stop by Marshall Grain http://www.marshallgrain.com/marshall/
Anyone have experience with the Garden-Ville 7-7-2 ? http://www.garden-ville.com/4429729_36600.htm
How about the lady bug products http://www.naturalgardeneraustin.com/ladybugbrand/824.htm
or Texas Tee http://maestro-gro.com/texastee6-2-4.aspx
Please comment on any organic products you like.
Organic gardening products
I love all of the Garden-Ville products I've ever used. Their stuff is top notch, in my opinion. I've not used that particular LadyBug brand product, but I've used some of their other fertilizer and potting soil and have been very pleased with those as well. I purchased Texas Tee a couple of months ago, but haven't started using it. I need to get some on the yard before any rain might come our way.
Gardenville's "Rocket Fuel" is good starter fertilizer. I have been using it on every new planting this year and they seem to like it. I also have the bat guano, which is a great source of nitrogen. I used their 7-2-2 in the lawn in the back yard this spring, and the grass seems to be growing strong, though only time will tell.
Their premium compost is also supposed to be fine enough to spread in the yard with a fertilizer spreader. I saw it on a recent Gardening by the Yard. Paul James was happy he found a brand he finally found that was fine enough to spread using the spreader. Compost is all he uses in on his lawn - no fertilizers. I kept rewinding and replaying the show and you could just see "Gardenvi" on the bag and it was a yellow and white bag like theirs. :)
Sweezel, you have the same eye. I saw the show and figured out what he was using. Figured I try some. Will purchase some Garden-Ville tomorrow.
Oh, how funny. :) I am going to try to find it and use it in my spreader.
Most of my organic products seem to be Epsoma or Gardenville. There are other brands mixed in but those two brands seem to offer the best selection of good stuff.
Gardenville's "Rocket Fuel"....A++++
I have used Gardenville's bulk rose soil for years. This year so far I have bought six yards of their bulk rose soil and one yard of bulk compost.
I like their bulk soils as a base for my raised beds and their Rocket Fuel for seed starting and seedlings. The location I use has a fairly decent nursery and they also have a good selection of products for the organic gardener.
As far as Texas Tee, there is a product called Medina HastaGro for Plants that a lot of us use around this part of Texas. It is made in Hondo, Tx a little West of San Antonio. http://www.medinaag.com/medina.swf
I haven't found anything in my garden that doesn't like Medina HastaGro. Just pour it around the plant and/or spray it on the foliage per the directions on the label.
Jerry
Just got back from Marshall Grain with the Garden-Ville 7-7-2 It was difficult to hold off on other purchases. Will be spreading it tomorrow.
In the past (including early April), I have hand tossed compost/alfalfa meal. Then rotary spreaded green sand and epsom salts.