Blood meal to fruit trees

 My friendly guardian angel/master gardener was concerned about the fruit trees and the steer manure. While normally I use 2 parts chicken and 1 part steer manure, this year when I went to buy them they were out of the chicken manure. I just got the steer, which is a poor substitute. It is too high in salt and low in nitrogen. The timing of putting out the steer manure before so much rain is good in that it will wash the salt away from the tree roots. To address the low nitrogen, I spread blood meal on the fruit trees. I'm considering repeating this in a month or two or perhaps using fish emulsion. I really would like to see some growth in some of the newer trees (like 5 years old - I'd have to look that up to know exactly). I'll also try to remember to only use chicken manure in the future, adding no steer manure at all. 

Amending Soil to Fix the Zero Nitrogen Issue

I am aware that some organic vegetable gardens may have very low water soluble nitrogen levels, but ZERO seems a bit low to me.  I'm hoping this is the issue with my North and West beds, because it is one that I can fix.  Just to be sure, I dug up a few of my pathetic tomato plants to take them back to the nursery for show and tell, along with my soil test results.

I came back with some new tricks.

The first is blood meal.  I've heard that it is easy to burn plants with this as it can be too nitrogen-hot, but really, with ZERO, is that going to be an issue?  (Were those famous last words?)  One of the nursery guys told me to use it in 2-5x quantities on the label and he wasn't concerned.  Another just said he's had trouble with it attracting animals, so he recommended I scratch it in.  I don't want to attract the raccoon pair that's recently been sited in the neighborhood.

I used the blood meal in the North Bed: 4 1/6  cups total.
Blood meal in the West Bed: 1 5/6 cups total

I clawed it in for both locations.

The second photo shows what I'm hoping will be my new best friends: Dial N Spray and Fish Fertilizer.  Today I used the Sprayer for the first time and it was super easy.  We had something like this about 12 years ago that wasn't nearly as intuitive.  I used the fish emulsion on the North Bed, West Bed, South Bed, Pots, and Front.  (Plus the camellias were in my way, so I foliar sprayed them, too.)

I hope to see some improvement in the sorry state of some plants.  I hope I'm on the right track.