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To: Desparado; Diana in Wisconsin

Fertilizer is a good thing to have for gardening, enough for several years.

Nitrogen encourages fast leafy growth. (For other things maybe ammonium nitrate And several bags of soil sulfur. You can manufacture charcoal.)

Also Phosphate based. 20 or 40 Lb bags of bird guano is good. 0-11-0. Encourages blooming in tomatoes for example. Potassium: Langbeineite (and mutate of potash if you are not strictly organic.) Potassium is needed to develop ridgidity and other things.

Micro-nutrients: 4-5 containers of Epsom salts—very cheap (magnesium sulfate). Magnesium is needed to produce chlorophyll which provides plants with energy.

Good to have several gallons of digested kelp and maybe several of liquid fish fertilizer, although the fish scent may attract things like raccoons I am told. Bag of humic acid.

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282 posted on 03/16/2021 7:20:44 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

“A book on crypto gardening. Hiding your crop in plain sight.”

Interesting! Never head of that. Would also he of interest to those that want to grow food but have strict HOA busy-bodies to contend with!

Great suggestion on the fertilizers!

My mule and steer give me plenty of fertilizer, and anyone that’s raised chickens has the same benefit, but their manure must be composted for at least a year before using it around plants; too acidic. :)


283 posted on 03/16/2021 8:00:10 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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