Back to the Roots Back to Roots Organic All-Purpose Plant Food, 5lb

Fantastic fertilizer. I needed something which does not have any animal products and this works well. I am seeing great improvement on my plants in their appearance, size and health growth.

I love this product is easy to use it doesn’t burn out the plants they are healthy and day are greener and vibrant. Is not like mother products that you get a big bag and is less than half full no this one is full I want to say an inch from the top. The best part is that it’s organic.

Will purchase again

This is a good all purpose plant food. But little did I know it's much healthier just to use my native soil that my chickens have worked up and added their own little gifts to enhance it. You really can't do better than that.

I use this for transplanting flowers in vegetables in the garden. It's easy to use, doesn't burn, and seems to provide enough juice to seedlings. I'm not sure Milorganite, which is much cheaper, would be inferior. Both are "organic" provided the sources of the nutrients don't bother you.

I'm a "veganic" gardener who chooses to not use any soil amendments that contain animal by-products or slaughterhouse by-products. No manure from factory farms; no bone or blood meal, etc., so Back to the Roots Organic All-Purpose Plant Food, with alfalfa meal, rock phosphate, soybean meal, dolomitic limestone, potassium, magnesium sulfate, sulfate of potash, and kelp meal fits the bill vegan-wise, but it's not clear whether the Alfalfa or Soybean meals are certified organic (I wish they were, but fear they are not). I buy this because it's a good amount of product for the price in the present market, and because it's a fast, easy, "all in one" solution to having to feed or side-dress our backyard crops, but I don't rely on it as our only fertilizer, as I feel more comfortable when I know with certainty that the seed meals ARE certified organic, non-gmo, grown on farms that don't use herbicides, pesticides, or genetically modified varieties. I mix the bulk of our soil amendments using certified organic seed meals (like organic alfalfa pellets from the feed store or from online vendors), kelp, locally available soil amendments (leaves, forest duff, compost we make here, etc.), some minerals as needed - like sulfur to adjust our alkaline soils for the more pH sensitive crops, etc. I find the Back to the Roots Organic All-Purpose Plant Food (5 lb. Value Size) a decent value, and, to be honest, I wish it came in an even larger, more economical size. I do wish, however, that all of the inputs were Organic, as I worry some about the seed meals in it. It's my favorite "fast food" solution to vegan fertilizer on a budget. It's never burned or otherwise mistreated any of our crops, and I plan to continue to use it as part of our soil amendment and side-dressing plan in our mostly "organic" vegan garden. I use it on everything from beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, and corn to peppers, roses, snapdragons, stocks, squash, tomatoes, and zinnias. I'm not entirely comfortable with the non-recycle-able, non-biodegradeable packaging, however, and I wish the company could pursue more environmentally sustainable packaging solutions (like the cardboard boxes with paper bagged products that some other brands - like plantonix - have adopted for their neem seed meals, etc.).

All of my plants have been super happy with this fertilizer! I'm talking, zucchini, broccoli, tomatoes, kale, collards, honeydew, you name it, it's been loving it. I can see the plants that don't have this look smaller and less green than the ones that do. I will be repurchasing, I just follow the directions and let it grow, very easy to use!

Smell will attract dogs. The bane of all natural fertilizers.