An organic fertilizer is composed of organic matter, like manure, ground alfalfa or soy, or the byproducts of chicken farms (feather meal) or fisheries (fish meal, fish bone meal, fish emulsion). Organic fertilizers need soil organisms to break them down and release their nutrients, so most of them release their nutrients slowly, over an extended period. Organic fertilizer blends can be built into the soil so they release over the entire season, instead of fertilizing every few weeks.
Chemical fertilizers are water-soluble salts that are available to plants as soon as they're dissolved in water. Because they're water soluble, they can be flushed through the soil by heavy rains, and contaminate streams, rivers, and lakes, where they can cause algae blooms and fish die-offs. "Dead zones" at the mouths of some major rivers may be the result of excessive fertilizers washing into the water.
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Local resources, natural inputs, and on-site activities are the differences between organic and non-organic farming. An organic farm does not employ chemical, genetically modified or non-synthetic controls or products to improve yields and prolong shelf life. It focuses upon the health of the soil and of soil food web members over artificially pleasing appearances and vast quantities of edibles and ornamentals.
Organic fertilizers come from the land, and very often are decayed leaves and other organic matter. "Regular" fertilizers are man-made and add three main nutrients to the soil. Compost adds a range of nutrients to the soil.
Balanced steadiness versus specialized speediness is the difference in plant growth between using inorganic and organic fertilizers. Inorganic fertilizers tend to focus upon above-ground growth and therefore yield lush foliage very quickly. Organic fertilizers contrastingly will benefit the entire plant, from the roots upward, and therefore will produce harmonious growth of roots and shoots slowly but steadily.
It depends on the format of the fertilizer. If both are balanced then the organic will have a longer lasting effect.
Organic fertilizer is a natural based fertilizer used to help plants grow. They have organic (carbon based) materials present in it.
Inorganic fertilizers are man made generally and have inorganic materials in it.
Organic means that the chickens that laid the eggs were raised on organic grains and other organic feed and treated humanely. In turn, they become the organic chicken you can buy, when an organic chicken dies of a humane killing or old age, it becomes the organic chicken you can buy in stores. Organic eggs just mean that there are no chemicals being fed to the chicken that could be passed into the egg.
Organic seeds are seeds that are naturally formed and produced by plants in the wild. Non-organic seeds are seeds formed in genetic laboratories to produce cheaper and better harvesting plants.
I'm no expert but I believe being "organic" means that it is made out of other plant matter and aminal waste, all natural stuff, no added chemicals or other things like that.