What foliar fertilizer do you use?

[dice]

For foliar feeding, I have only used fish, fish plus a little
Miracle-Gro, and homemade stuff like

handful of kelp powder
handful of alfalfa
handful of comfrey leaf
gloveful of dried nettles
handful of dried chickweed
1/2 cup of liquid molasses, unsulfured
(few tablespoons of liquid humic acid
if I have it)

Mix into 5 gallons of water and let sit for
a couple of days, then strain off and foliar
feed or soil drench. It is probably low on phosphorus,
but you can get that other ways (soil might have
enough, add a little guano if you have that, etc).

I have not used the Omega products (expensive), but on paper
they look effective:

http://www.groworganic.com/item_F181...66_Gallon.html

There is a low nitrogen flowering and fruiting formula, too:

http://www.groworganic.com/item_F182...55_Gallon.html

I have used Fertall MB, but it was just to treat a mineral
deficiency. It is not a complete fertilizer (does not even
cover that many trace minerals, really, but it is absorbed
easily through foliage if it happens to contain one that
your plants are showing a deficiency of):

http://www.groworganic.com/item_F173...ted_Miner.html

[natural]

Dice,

I have used the Omega products for years. I have been very pleased with the products. I start with the 6-6-6 and switch to the 1-5-5 from bloom onward.
The application rate of Omega is 1-2 TBS per gallon, so it goes a long way.

I mix the Omega with the Algamin Liquid. The Algamin is a great kelp extract product, though I just found out last week that it (Algamin) is no longer available from the manufacturer. Bummer. I have used this for years and consider it the BEST source of Kelp. I am going to try the PVFS Kelp Extract liquid in its place. Anyone have experience with this product?


Bill

[stormymater]

Originally Posted by kygreg

Read a post some time back where someone had put actual fishhead in their tomato holes; said the buzzards had a field day digging them up.

We used to go dip netting for hickory shad on the Potomac in the spring when I was a kid. My Dad would use the entire bucks & the roes (sans roe) in our downtown garden (waaay before gardening was cool - only our neighbors in their 90s still gardened threir Victory garden) & we had OUTRAGEOUSLY productive pole beans, tomatoes, cukes, peppers & squash.
Ladybug, my little fox terrier, would occasionally drag a carcass out but otherwise they stayed underground doing their nutritious goodness.
Hmmm... now I'll have to ask my favorite fishmonger about what they got!

[decius]

Michael- Since I'm the wife I get to use fish emulsion! To answer your original question I use fish emulsion and seaweed. (I make my own compost but am too lazy to make compost tea - even though I know my roses would love it.)

Elizabeth

[mdvpc]

Elizabeth:

Good to see you posting!

Fish is definitely out at our house! I am trying a product called seaplex. Its a kelp, plus they have a micronutrient foliar and a calcium soil drench for those folks that just have to put supplemental calcium in their containers.