The Urban Farm Fertilizer Company

The Urban Farm Fertilizer Company High-performance fertilizers for eye-popping results!

The Urban Farm Fertilizer Co is a small, family-run business dedicated to the
crafting of high-performance fertilizers for the backyard gardener and homeowner. We began in hydroponics, and have now taken our knowledge of specific plant nutrition and applied it toward the production of highly accurate, balanced fertilizers for soil and containers.

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02/14/2013

What causes blossom-end rot? Clearly calcium deficiency is a major factor, but in containers, inconsistent watering is just as bad. You can have all the calcium you want available in the root zone of a container, and still get BER because of a watering problem. That's what we've seen.

So if you're container gardening, set up an automatic drip. Without it you will likely forget irrigations, and then you open yourself up to BER. Urban Farm Fertilizers certainly reduce the likelihood because of the high calcium content and our micro-nutrient package, but the best way to be sure is to use our fertilizers, and make sure you have automatic watering.

02/13/2013

Never fails! Every Spring our chain of distributors and retailers wait until the last minute and then......bam. The orders flood in and we go sleep-deprived. But we love it, because making the finest specialty fertilizers is a passion for us.

We're just like farmers......late Fall and Winter are down time, and then come Spring, we plant our crop and hope for a good harvest.

02/05/2013
URBAN FARM FERTILIZER

Randy Lemmon loves us!

Urban Farm Fertilizers are micro-brewed, high performance fertilizers for vegetables, flowers, citrus, and lawns.

01/09/2013

Can't stop now! Retail Urban Farm Fertilizers are expanding into Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Despite all the competition out there in this business (and the snake oil), a solid, high-performance product that produces consistent results can succeed. Game on!

01/07/2013

We're alive! Yes, we kind of go dormant on FB in Fall, even though we had a good crop. Now it's time to gear up for Spring. Urban Farm Fertilizers is proud to present it's newest formula.....Rose Garden.

You should see what it is doing to our container roses! (well, before this last cold wind storm) As soon as it warms up a bit and they go into full bloom we'll post pictures. It is the best rose formula you can lay your hands on.

Roses are not your normal flower: unlike annuals, they don't like a lot of phosphorus, but they do like a fair amount of nitrogen, and a ton of calcium. Rose Garden contains 4% calcium, instantly available.

It will be on shelves in February. Try some and you'll be a believer.

10/29/2012

Happy Halloween! Here is an 817lb pumpkin one of our customers grew with Texas Tomato Food. TTF says on the label, "For All Large Vegetables". And you thought that was just a sales pitch. Texas Tomato Food is no joke. Get some.

09/17/2012

We're not kidding when we say "handmade". We get down, dirty, and sweaty. BioActive is our answer to a correctly formulated dry organic fertilizer.

09/07/2012

The verdict is in: most vegetable container gardens will be disappointing without an automated watering system, especially in the hot months. Inevitably you'll miss irrigations and the plants will get stressed, they'll grow poorly, and the meager harvests will be of low quality. Also, inconsistent watering is a major cause of blossom-end rot, despite additional calcium.

The ideal container setup is with a drip system that forks off to both a house tap and a nutrient tank. Your automatic irrigations come from the timer/tap, and your manual feedings come from the nutrient tank. This is where Urban Farm Fertilizers shine! Short of an Urban Farm, this is a great setup.

This also works just as well for soil gardening.

09/05/2012
08/24/2012

Coastal Agricultural Supply, Inc.

BioActive™ Premium Organic is an advanced biologically-active
fertilizer. It contains full, balanced macro and micro nutrients, along
with a heavy dose of Mycorrhizae fungi and benecial bacteria,
which enhance life in the rootzone and aid in the uptake of nutrients
and water. BioActive™ is an all-organic fertilizer that produces results
similar to synthetics while improving soil at the same time.

08/24/2012
The Urban Farm

The Urban Farm

We at HydroSystems make The Urban Farm 3,5,10, and 20 pot automated vegetable growing systems for patios, decks, rooftops, greenhouses, and garden replacement. For people with no time or space, but a love of fresh vegetables: www.the urbanfarm.com

08/23/2012

Whew! The TNLA show last weekend at George R Brown was great! Here is our booth, with master organizer Timora Pole leading the way. Check out the sage green company shirts.

08/16/2012

We're off to the TNLA Trade Show tomorrow, Sat, and Sun at George R Brown Convention Center in Houston. Booth 2719. If you're a retailer please stop by. Our products really picked up steam on the shelves this year, and we're looking to expand.

08/14/2012

We're still here! Check out this morning's harvest. These were produced on a combination of All-Purpose Vegetable and Texas Tomato Food. We are inundated by peppers, eggplant, and cucumbers at the moment.

07/07/2012

When it's too hot to set tomatoes, our emphasis shifts to chiles, peppers, eggplant, squash, cucumbers, and now tomatillos.

06/25/2012

Here's a simple way to grow tomatoes in soil or containers.

Instead of tilling every organic amendment you can think of into your garden plot, just get a pickup load of the oldest cow manure you can find. Till that into your soil at about 50%-50% in the Fall. You won't get much NPK food value, but you'll get the aeration and bio-activity. You'll have wonderfully conditioned soil ready for plants.

People use many different mixes in containers, from inert potting mixes to straight soil. Put some cow manure in there too.

From that point on, just feed with our liquid nutrients, by hand or with a drip system. This is the easiest and quickest way to get great results.

The reason we recommend against plowing a ton of organic amendments into your soil is because it's so easy to get "upside down". We've personally confirmed this with soil analysis from customer's gardens. What happens is.....without a scientific approach to what you are adding, you often times end up adding too much of some elements and not enough of others. This can really be a problem with micro nutrients. Next thing you know, you're toxic on boron, and you'll see chlorotic leaves and think you have a nutrient deficiency. Then you'll add more "stuff" to try to correct it, only making it worse.

Even with the average backyard gardener, we can't recommend enough the benefits of a soil analysis to know where your soil stands.

By using old cow manure, you are in no danger of overloading your soil with any one element, but you've just greatly increased the quality of your root zone. You can transform poor soils in this manner. From that point on you are in control of delivering nutrition.

Basically, this is manual hydroponics: your cow manure/soil mix is your growing medium, and you are manually supplying perfect nutrition by using our hydroponic-grade fertilizers.

06/19/2012

The 118's are starting to come in. We drive them with both All-Purpose Vegetable and Texas Tomato Food. Both do a similar job on chiles. There are three plants in this pot, and they are up to nearly 6' already. The tops are full of little bitty ones. Upload your pics.

06/13/2012

This is a professional greenhouse bell pepper called Orange Grande. It does really well in our Urban Farms, and also in soil and containers. Truly awesome and sweet like candy.

06/13/2012

The Urban Farm Fertilizer Company's cover photo

06/12/2012

Our garden is our test garden. The boss uses it to check out the performance of the fertilizers. He likes to leave things on the plant a long time "to see what happens." Me? I just want to eat it, so every now and then, I launch a stealth mission, and "borrow" some for dinner.

05/31/2012

Where to buy Urban Farm Fertilizers? We've been getting a lot of calls. Click on "About" above left to see the list. Call stores in your area to see what they have stocked.

05/29/2012

What to do with hundreds of tomatoes? Make stuff! Then freeze or can it. Fresh from the garden. All of our tomatoes were grown in our hydroponic Urban Farm vegetable growing systems. Taste response has been outstanding!

05/14/2012

Despite an attack of late blight, we're still averaging 50 tomatoes/plant. And no Blossom-end Rot! The BB letters are for Big Beef. It's a tasty tomato, but not as prolific as Better Boy.

05/06/2012
The Urban Farm

Here's a good video on changing out Urban Farm pots.

You gotta see this root ball! The video is a bit long and the wind has hurt some of the audio, but you'll see how easy it is to replant one pot in mid-season.

05/03/2012

It's time for Texas Tomato Food! With it's big bump in potassium, calcium, and magnesium, Texas Tomato Food is what large fruiting vegetables need to finish big, sweet, and juicy.

04/29/2012

You can now find our fertilizers in 52 locations throughout Texas! Yup, count'em! To find a store near you, click on the "about" button above and scroll through the list.

04/29/2012

Which formula is your favorite Urban Farm fertilizer?

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1544 State Highway 60 N
Bay City, TX
77414

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