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You know the stuff i'm talking about the bags of thos
Sheep or Cow Manure that can be purchased fairly cheap
at the local nursery or garden center

is this stuff any good?

or should the money be saved for other additives?

I when planting my tomatoes peppers, cucumbers ext ext

i use to dig a few bags of this stuff in around the roots
before planting then around the top every couple of weeks

seemed to work well for those plants

but how do you feel about adding a few bags of this stuff around the pumpkings before and after planting?
another question


how do you guys feel about the Granular fertilizer that
is layed on top of soil thats a "slow re lease" when watered?

DaveM

1/2/2004 1:02:18 AM

Norton, MA

I use that granular for my nitrogen. Seems to work well.

1/2/2004 9:41:27 AM

Montoursville, PA

Dave........Nothing wrong there at all except that it is the most expensive way to enter organics. In addition some of the goodness is processed out as it is made for the home gardener.

If you can manage to get real manure and some kind of compost pile going looking towards fall of 2004 for use you will be miles ahead in quality building at this time next year. I use no synthetic fertilizers in the soil building program.

A nice and valued support to your present program would be to make a feed sack tea bag. Place in it manure in the amount of about a ten quart bucket full. Put your tea bag in a 55 gal drum and let it sit there for three or four days. In three or four days dip out a tall clear glass full and hold it up to the sunlight. If it looks like tea you would drink you have a living major support item to feed your plants by drenching. If it is to dark dilute it. As soon as you can see tea you are ready to use it. Used at tea strength you can drench soil in the nursery and along the vines once a week for a major healthy patch improvement and to replace what has been cooked out of most commercial bagged products.

Your single bucketfull of manure will make a couple hundred gallons of tea for your plants. When done toss what is left on the compost pile and start with new contents for your tea bag.

1/2/2004 10:10:47 AM

moonachie,n.j.

is there 2 different types of bag manure , like composted and another type? which is best?? normie123 normanmeier@aol.com

1/4/2004 6:30:07 PM

Montoursville, PA

normie.......there are as many different types as there are labels. You really have to know what is in that bag. You can be relatively sure your product is good if you have a good company with experience bagging up the contents. Even so it still comes down to the most expensive way to build up your patch with humus content. It gets a little confusing and maybe even scary if you read the labels. The fact that any given store sells it is not the assurance that it is a top quality product.

Investigate the price of a cubic yard of mushroom compost at your local nuserys and compare that volume to a bag of so called good stuff at the other retail outlets.

1/10/2004 9:41:02 AM