Neptune's Harvest CS604 Crab Shell Multi-Purpose Plant Food 2-3-0 4lb

Real quality product. Smell like lobsters and ocean seashells (does not stink). Mix into soil when planting vegetables and flowers and every year around fruit trees and grapes. Purchased twice and definitely will continue to buy as it is natural amendment for our garden.

This has made a fantastic addition to my organic soil mix.

Be prepared for the strong fishy smell. It'll attract flies to your garden. Once I covered veggie plants with mulch, it cut down the fishy odor. I'm assuming it's working. This is my first time using the product.

This is what is says and more - crab shell and scraps, which for my needs is perfect. I use this to help satisfy land hermit crabs and crayfishes cannibalistic yearnings. Few things are as tasty to crabs as other crabs, and I suppose eating yourself is as close the perfect diet as you can get. Most of the time social and gregarious, land hermit crabs do have a dark side and will sometimes dig up a molting friend, pull them out of their shell, kill and eat them. (Crayfish can hardly ever resist making a meal out of a newly molted buddy, no 'sometimes' about it.) Both species will eat their own molts as well as any others they can get a hold of which further tends to indicate their shells are an important and coveted food source. A lot of attention is given to providing invertebrates with extra calcium but I doubt supplementing calcium alone is really of much use. The mineral makeup of skeletons and exoskeletons is complex and letting the animal supplement their own diet as naturally as possible is probably a better solution. I was very happy to find this big bag-o-crab which the critters enjoy picking through for the best bits - whatever they may be. I rinse it to remove any surface salt for the crayfish, and feed it 'as is' to the sea loving hermit crabs. According to the ingredients it contains only crab shell and scraps. As far as being "organic" - well....... your guess is as good as mine just what that means but I've had no issues with any animal eating it. It smells fishy, I would expect that. I would be suspicious if it was odorless. I've no idea what it does for plants, but it is a great find for someone with many invertebrate mouths to feed.

I am writing a review after the season is over. Very good product. I used another brand prior to this brand. I am using this product for the first time. I noticed a big difference. I decided to switch to this comanyTrying / brand.