Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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May 30, 2010 | #16 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: PNW
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Sources of organic nutrients, for future reference:
http://www.primalseeds.org/npk.htm http://www.the-organic-gardener.com/Comfrey.html
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May 31, 2010 | #17 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Canada
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Hi dice,
The websites you posted are very useful. I am trying to compare with one other website I looked at. http://www.healthalternatives2000.co...ion-chart.html And reflecting off: http://www.primalseeds.org/npk.htm One deals with mineral contents and the other one deals with compost materials. Would you see these two webs similar? |
June 2, 2010 | #18 |
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The website that you posted there is nutrional analyses of fruit,
etc for eating. Normally the only parts of those fruits one might use in the garden are the skins, either as compost ingredients or directly amending soil or container mix with them. So I don't know how useful that chart would be for analyzing the usefulness of just the rinds of those fruits as fertilizer. I have a similar chart that compares a few "foods" that includes nettles, where it was interesting to compare some of the nutrients in nettles foliage with some things normally grown as green vegetables: http://www.prodigalgardens.info/Nutr...20Analysis.htm (Nettles are often recommended for including in compost. One poster observed that nettles are apparently a high-nitrogen additive, based on the behavior of plants that have been mulched with shredded nettles or had them mixed into the soil around the plant, and they seem to accelerate the rate of composting in compost piles. Crushed bracken fern rubbed on a nettles sting seems to alleviate the pain in a very short time.)
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June 2, 2010 | #19 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Rock Hill, SC
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I spray the plants with Maxicrop fish emulsion or seaweed emulsion at 50% strength (about 1 tsp for a 32 oz bottle) when the plants are coming up on their 2nd set of true leaves.
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