**For vegetable garden fertilizer I use mulch and organic matter.**

As the price of oil and natural gas keep getting more expensive that will flow over to the price of vegetable garden fertilizers. If your gardening method tends to the organic natural way of gardening

you will not need to add any extra vegetable garden fertilizer. The organic natural system should support the vegetables you grow. But all organic waste from the kitchen must be put back on the garden.

Nothing other than diseased and pest infested plants should be taken off.

These should either be buried very deep or burnt and the ashes thrown over the soil. For your garden to survive it needs fertilizer, but in this new oil-less world fertilizers that we used before will be replaced with nature’s way. That means all nature’s waste must be returned back to the soil to replace what we take out when we harvest the vegetables we eat. We should try and maintain a balanced system with outputs being replaced.

If you are into compost then set up a compost bin and throw all your garden waste as well as your food waste from the kitchen into the compost bin.

I have a bucket in the kitchen and all food waste ends up in the bucket. Sometimes I bury the kitchen waste and other times I just throw it on the garden. The chickens go through it and scratch it all up. It is up to you what you do with the waste but all organic material must be returned to the garden.

With this system you sometimes have to bring in more organic material like straw and hay for a mulch. I just go down the local park early in the morning and rake up the leaves. No one seems to mind but it all helps. So for your vegetable garden fertilizer try and use all the vegetable waste from your garden.

Check out our Vegetable Gardening page and see what you think, but now is the time to stop thinking and just throw a few seeds around the house to see what happens.