Fish Pellets as Fertilizer

Fish Pellets as Fertilizer

Whenever I can I like to use organic fertilizers.  People ask me all the time how I grow such mammoth rhubarb plants and I always grin and I say I’m not sure.  That grin is my tell  – I do know, I’m just not telling.  Until today. Fish pellets as fertilizer are the secret.

How to grow massive rhubarb plants

How Do I Grow Mammoth Rhubarb Plants?

Well, I have a pretty good clue why I can harvest a truckload of 400 pounds of rhubarb from two plants in any given year.  It all started with my great-grandfather.


My great-grandfather was a fisherman and avid gardening king. As a grown woman, there are things that you remember from your childhood as if they were yesterday.  Like being told not to go under the electric fence…but you just GOTTA try it out for yourself.  Or, like that fact, your grandfather was always cleaning freshly caught fish from the creek or on the bay.

How to grow massive rhubarb plants

His Secret For Healthy Plants Was Simple

After he cleaned his fish, he buried the body.  Literally!  The fish has always produced wonderful, healthy plants.  As a woman who is married to an avid fisherman, I too, would fetch the remains and bury the bodies 🙂 It was free fertilizer and cost nothing.  You start early in the spring and continue until about a month before frost.

But There Was an Issue

My husband brought home this loveable lab puppy one fall.  Of, course I fell madly in love with him, even though I said that I would not.  The following spring – Scouty Rowdy Pumpkin Pie decided that he needed to dig up the buried bodies and roll in them.  Have you ever tried to remove the dead fish smell from a dog or your living room carpet? Well, let’s say; DON’T EVER put yourself in that position.

Sassy Lab Digging in Garden

Then I Tried

Liquid fish concentrated.  Worked well, after you get past the smell.   It was a just add the solution to water, and water your plants.  But, again.  Foiled.  Scout decided to just start ripping plants out of the ground and I spent the next three days shampooing my carpets after he ate my tomato plants.  Not fun!

Then I Ordered Fish Pellets Online

Fish pellet fertilizer - safe to use around my dogs.
Grow MASSIVE plants. Organic and safe to use around pets. Click on picture to purchase on Amazon

The magic bullet.  Only a slight smell, which Scouty didn’t pick up or bother with.  It gives me the same yearly production.  Maybe, a little less than using the full fish, but very comparable results.

Fish Pellet Fertilizer - Organic Garden Fertilizer


Oh, but don’t leave the bag out.  In small doses, the dogs can’t smell them well.  A whole package, ugh!  Thankfully, they are organic and non-toxic. But, if they eat enough; you will know it 🙂 Get your carpet cleaner ready….

Moral of the Story

Don’t bury the bodies if you have a dog, they love to roll in smelly things and you will be left gagging. Enjoy gardening again with organic non-toxic fish pellets as fertilizer because the worst your dog can have is bad breathe 🙂

 

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