Garden fertilizer
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 1:59 pm
What is the best fertilizer for a small garden? The garden will have mostly tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers.
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Re: Garden fertilizer
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 2:15 pm
Triple 13 used gently or triple 8 used liberally...That's what I use
Re: Garden fertilizer
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 2:21 pm
Buckwabit wrote:Triple 13 used gently or triple 8 used liberally...That's what I use
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And cow crap (HOME GROWN) makes mirical grow look like childs play in the mater bed!!!
Re: Garden fertilizer
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 2:33 pm
My neighbor is an elderly gent that grows an awesome garden uses chicken litter from Cal-Maine on his. Makes our place literally smell like crap for a few days.
Re: Garden fertilizer
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 2:51 pm
Gee, wonder why?kevinw wrote:My neighbor is an elderly gent that grows an awesome garden uses chicken litter from Cal-Maine on his. Makes our place literally smell like crap for a few days.
Re: Garden fertilizer
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 5:37 pm
Osmocult (sp) small pellet thingys...works great on everything 
Re: Garden fertilizer
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 8:27 pm
Chicken crap, use sparingly as it will burn some plants up if you are not careful. It builds the soil up unlike commercial fertilizer.
Re: Garden fertilizer
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 9:22 am
Chicken crap - the best.
Re: Garden fertilizer
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 1:59 pm
Ideally: compost amended into the soil
If your growing a garden, then you have scraps that you can compost yourself. Just make sure you tumble it to get air mixed in.
Cow manure is mostly nitrogen. Chicken or rabbit manure would be a much more balanced fertilizer. P and K don't go anywhere and build up in the soil over time. Nitrogen leaches and gets consumed faster and you spend more time replacing nitrogen than anything else. Be more concerned about Ph over fertilizing and use lime to control Ph. P and K is more root and N is more foliage.
Miracle Grow is alot cheaper than using over priced Osmocote. Osmocote Vegetable is just triple 14 (your better off just buying Triple 13). Regular Osmocote for flowers is 19-6-12.
If your growing a garden, then you have scraps that you can compost yourself. Just make sure you tumble it to get air mixed in.
Cow manure is mostly nitrogen. Chicken or rabbit manure would be a much more balanced fertilizer. P and K don't go anywhere and build up in the soil over time. Nitrogen leaches and gets consumed faster and you spend more time replacing nitrogen than anything else. Be more concerned about Ph over fertilizing and use lime to control Ph. P and K is more root and N is more foliage.
Miracle Grow is alot cheaper than using over priced Osmocote. Osmocote Vegetable is just triple 14 (your better off just buying Triple 13). Regular Osmocote for flowers is 19-6-12.
Re: Garden fertilizer
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 2:05 pm
I could dig you up a load of catfish pond dirt. It puts chicken poop to shame. Lol.
Re: Garden fertilizer
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 3:49 pm
yea it does. we water a 20 acre rice field out of a fish pond one year. it was nearly black it was so green, stooled out really good, and never once applied any N. cut 230 bpa.Wingman wrote:I could dig you up a load of catfish pond dirt. It puts chicken poop to shame. Lol.