Thank you, Laura!

Awesome! Glad it helped!

The ash will give them potassium, but it can also change the pH. I would put the ash into the compost pile, but not use it on your plants without a soil test. If you used homemade compost and aged manure, it’s hard to say whether it’s a nutrient issue. Have you ruled out disease and pests as a cause for the yellowing? Watering and weather can also cause poor production and dropped flowers. If you rule out the other issues and don’t want to do a soil test, I would add liquid organic fertilizer with equal NPK (all the same numbers). Synthetic fertilizer is okay on occasion as long as you don’t use too much and burn your plants.

I’m in fruiting stages and close to harvest for a lot of my crops. Some of my plants are starting to yellow and other are dropping flowers and just not producing like I had thought. I have tried to grow an organic garden, so I have only used my own compost and some of our aged horse manure.

I don’t have anymore compost that is 100% ready (I can still see brown grass clipping in it, but all of the food has decomposed). I can use more manure and I have a bucket of ashes from burning a stump, other logs, and brush.

My question is, what would be most beneficial to use? I can’t really afford to go out and purchase fertilizer, but if I did, what would be the most beneficial at this stage?

Would adding the ashes and watering in help with the leaves and flowers, and then the fruits? Or should I do a combination?

Is synthetic fertilizer harmful in any other way than eventually depleting the soil of nutrients?

Lots of questions, sorry and thanks in advance!

I’m so glad to hear that! Thank you!

I’m glad the article was helpful! Thanks for visiting, Jack!