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Old May 13, 2017   #16
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Rabbit poops and Shake 'n Grow.
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Old May 14, 2017   #17
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I call my cow field dirt "Sugar's Black Magic." It's the only fertilizer I use.

Here's Sugar giving her head-scratch blessing to a truckload of it:
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Old May 14, 2017   #18
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Glad to meet Sugar again. She obviously enjoys life in spite of the weight of years. Obviously the manure doesn't come right down from its source. How did you take care of it ?

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Old May 14, 2017   #19
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Fish emulsion and Happy Frog Fruit and Flower (5-8-4). Tried Tomato Tone to compare it with the HF last year but just can't get past the smell!!!
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Hi Bulldog,
TTF - I got a fresh gallon in yesterday - makes 256 gallons of fertilizer.
My 3rd year using it - great stuff.
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Old May 14, 2017   #21
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This year I used about 50 gallons of homemade compost, an 18 pound bag of Tomatotone, and 8 ounces of DieHard Biorush Plus. All were tilled into a 450 sq ft bed about a month before planting. I used the intensive method of planting so in that bed are tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, onions, kale, peanuts, corn, a couple of Zucchini and a couple of vines that volunteered out of the compost which I suspect is Spaghetti Squash. Weeds never had a chance in this garden.
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Old May 14, 2017   #22
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A spoon of Shake n Grow preplant, then fertigating w/ Masterblend tomato + CalNit + Epsom salt this season.
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Obviously the manure doesn't come right down from its source. How did you take care of it ?
Most of the material in the black dirt is actually rotted hay, where the big bales of hay have sat in the cow field. Obviously, there must be some manure mixed in, but the material itself has all been aged for many years in the field.
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Old May 15, 2017   #24
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Horse manure before planting... 1/8-1/4 cup Tomato Tone at planting time and now that I have flowers and tomatoes forming I am using Texas Tomato Food. I had to try TTF after reading bills (b54red) endorsement of it..
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Old May 15, 2017   #25
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Meals:
Crab shell meal
Kelp meal
Fish bone meal
Neem seed meal
Alfalfa meal
Composted chicken litter

Minerals:
Liming mix of 2 parts hi-cal lime to 1 part gypsum, 1 part dolomite lime
Azomite
Rich Earth
Glacial rock dust
Feed grade diatomaceous earth with bentonite clay
Montmorillonite clay
Soft rock phosphate

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Old May 15, 2017   #26
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Rabbit detritus. Over 100 lbs of it. And some Ca Nitrate, SuperBloom.
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Old May 18, 2017   #27
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I use hydroponic fertilizer.
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Old May 18, 2017   #28
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Rabbit detritus. Over 100 lbs of it. And some Ca Nitrate, SuperBloom.
Rabbit manure is supposed to be pretty awesome, I hear.
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I use hydroponic fertilizer.
Do you use a hydroponic system, or just the fertilizer? I've got some hydroponic strawberry fertilizer I'm planning to experiment with on strawberries in the ground. I may have to add extra nitrogen, though, because of all the potassium they add. It looks my few transplanted tomatoes could use some nitrogen now, too. (I must have too much potassium/calcium there, since there shouldn't be an issue otherwise.)
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Do you use a hydroponic system, or just the fertilizer? I've got some hydroponic strawberry fertilizer I'm planning to experiment with on strawberries in the ground. I may have to add extra nitrogen, though, because of all the potassium they add. It looks my few transplanted tomatoes could use some nitrogen now, too. (I must have too much potassium/calcium there, since there shouldn't be an issue otherwise.)
I grow in Coco which is considered a hydroponic media.
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