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William Rose · 15-05-2007, 04:21 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible

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wrote:

Thanks Bill and Vern. Much appreciated. I will transplant with no
worries.

Ignore the unfounded ruminations of Jon Shemitz. Plants don't care where
their NO3- come from as long as they get it and it isn't too
concentrated. Using chemical fertilizers is like hydroponics, where the
dirt is the inert medium but, you can't recycle the nutrient solution.
In the midwest (among other places), it ends up in the aquifers where
NO3- makes babies sick when tap water is boiled and added to powdered
formula.

Give your transplants some nice organic fish emulsion. Amend your soil,
if you can, and mulch your plants afterwards. Amend the soil more in
late Fall or put in a cover crop.

Enjoy your day of making the world a better place.

- Bill

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