Homemade Fertilizer

[CrealCritter]

This 70's book 10,000 garden questions answered from 20 experts is pretty handy.

Another home made fertilizer recipe on the cheap.

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[baymule]

You mean like a manure tea?

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Yep!

 

[Chic Rustler]

Like corn, onions are heavy nitrogen feeders. If your corn produces in your soil without any ammonia nitrate, then your onions should do fine also. Most all soil is deficient in nitrogen around here. That's why I see farmers with big tanks of anhydrous ammonia around planting time. Most always it's corn that's being sowed.

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when we grow corn in the garden i mulch it heavily with manure and compost several times. when i grow corn outside of the garden i also used a balanced fertilizer.

 

[CrealCritter]

when we grow corn in the garden i mulch it heavily with manure and compost several times. when i grow corn outside of the garden i also used a balanced fertilizer.

You are in Texas, I'm sure the soil is a lot different there, than here in southern IL. We get a lot of rain and need fertilizer to keep up with what the rains make less abundant in the soil, expecially at the beginning of growing season. The best approach here is to flip the soil over by plowing deep. That way the good black top soil is covered down deep to rot, for the roots to find and the clay is at the top to help get things established without washing away the seedlings during down pours. Think of it like a clay pot almost filled with black dirt, covered in clay with and slow drainage. My current garden spot was plowed deep, like a good 12 to 14 inches deep the good stuff is at the bottom rotting away.

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[Chic Rustler]

i wonder if epsom salts is any good? i always hear about it for tomatoes

 

[Hinotori]

Epsom salts are really good for leaves and greenery. Mom has used it for decades. Too much can delay flowering

 

[CrealCritter]

My limited understanding Epsom salts, is it makes sulfur, nitrogen and potassium that's already in the soil more available to the plants. It encourages both leaf and root growth.

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[crooked-creek-farm]

The magnesium helps prevent blossom end rot....Epsom salts. Other help? Probably.

Only if your soil in depleted in Magnesium, keep in mind Magnesium is Micro-nutrient plants need very little of it.

Increasing Magnesium around the root zone can in fact cause Blossom End Rot just the same as too much Ammonium Nitrate or the lack of Calcium in the soil or the lack of Calcium getting to the fruit.

 

[crooked-creek-farm]

Welcome to SS @crooked-creek-farm!

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[flowerbug]

Thank You

welcome to SS from mid-Michigan.

your chosen name here is amusing to me because we have a Crooked Creek not too far away (and it was close enough to where i grew up that we sometimes would swim in it and hunt for golf balls).

i'm pretty sure you are not from my area but can you update your location in your profile to give an approximate location?