Posted on 08/03/2018 7:21:28 PM PDT by greeneyes
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It seemed to work pretty well. I didn’t do a controlled experiment or anything. Sometimes I use bone meal and/or blood meal. It seemed to work as well as those. It doesn’t stink as bad as blood meal.
I always include a dose of my own compost - kitchen scraps, paper, leaves, coffee grounds, and garden stuff - like the wheat or corn stalks. I stick it in a compost bin and empty it out in the spring.
The large bits go back in the bin or another compost pile and the rest gets used.
In a previous article from Mother Earth News-magazine that I bought a few years ago, Alfalfa meal was the best bang for the buck among the many fertilizers listed-specifically using nitrogen as the main measurement.
I have never looked for it on line, because our local feed store keeps it in stock. I’m sure that somewhere on line, you could order it.
I am thankful that we don’t have it here in that case!
My sister bought it locally at a seed store. But we have a fairly large turkey industry here in the Midwest so it's easy for local merchants to get hold of it.
Chicken manure may be easier to find:
https://www.amazon.com/Hoffman-20505-Dehydrated-Manure-Pounds/dp/B001ACPQGK
NO-BAKE STRAWBERRY YOGURT CAKE
PREP Soak env plain gelatin in 4 tb water. Heat 1/4 c milk or cream; add/dissolve in soaked gelatin.
Puree 2 c fresh strawberries, cup Greek yogurt, 2 tb honey. Add gelatin/milk. Fold in 1/4 cup whipped h/cream.
FINAL Chill 6-24 hours in 6" springform (or use a lined 6" cake pan). At service, mound w/ assorted berries.
SERVE wedges garnished w/ berries, maybe a bit of berry sauce, a mint leave, and a curl of whipped cream on the plate.
And various squash are big and flowering. Hope some mature fefore the first freeze!
Hope so too. The volunteer squash has been larger than any we have ever grown in the last 10 years. The power of compost! LOL
Have a good night-I’m off to take a nap.
Thanks... I’ll run this by Lady Bender
I’m getting roughly blueberry size or slightly larger. I have grape tomatoes in there with them but nothing yet it seems.
This hasn’t been one of our better years for gardening here in North Fort Worth. May was one of the hottest Mays on record and June didn’t get any better. Got a few tomatoes but once it gets to triple digit temps blossoms just dry up and die. Peppers got “sunburn”. Never had that happen before. Seems next year I’ll have to tent everything. Still had enough to fill the deep freeze with pkgs. of tomato sauce, roasted red pepper and tomato soup, carrot soup, carrot muffins, corn, green beans, sausage and peppers, and stuffed peppers. I also have a bin full of potatoes. Now my garden is basically just flowers. Already thinking of next years garden.
Awesome !
Do you have any personal experience with it? Before and after?
Glad it went well. Best wishes to her!
Glad to hear about Lady Bender. Give he our best! :)
What are you growing that strictly needs Nitrogen? Salad greens?
Or do you have a deficiency in the soil you’re trying to correct?
It’s been so hot around here that even my herbs are shriveling up. Oh Well. Thank God I don’t have to garden to EAT!
If you know anyone with chickens try to get some of the manure.
Manure from poultry is by far the best thing you can put on your garden. It has a high nitrogen content, doesn’t carry weed seeds like other manures and breaks down quicker to show better results faster.
Alabama A+M and Auburn both did great studies on chicken manure and found it the King of the garden.
Lowes carries 20 lb bags of ready to use chicken manure and I’m sure most feed and seed stores carry or can order it.
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