In article
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Billy wrote:

In article
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Bill wrote:

In article
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beecrofter wrote:


If you went crazy with soluble nitrogen fertilizer try pinching the
plants back, giving them a good soaking, and adding a little bit of
sugar as a carbon source to the soil to tie up some of the soluble
nitrogen as bacteria.

I can understand the first part of your statement. But adding sugar is
new to me for carbon as I think of wood ashes for the carbon.
I think you're preoccupied with your patient ;o)) We've been throug this
before. Anyway, take a look at
www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf1993/misra93a.pdf
Perhaps a
new trick for me. Sounds expensive some how. Still I think you mean as
remedial for imbalance on a small scale perhaps. . Adding sugar got me
way off present practice thinking..

Bill who spills Hummer sugar only 1-4 parts water.

Think "Teaming with Microbes", Chapter 1, where they write about plant
exudates.
. . .
Root exudates are in the form of carbohydrates (including sugars) and
proteins. Amazingly, their presence wakes up, attracts, and grows
specific beneficial bacteria and fungi living in the soil that subsist
on these exudates and the_ cellular material sloughed off as the plant's
root tips grow. All this secretion of_ exudates and sloughing-off of
cells takes place in the rhizosphere, a zone immediately around the
roots, extending out about a tenth of an inch, or a couple of
millimeters (1 millimeter = 1/25 inch). The rhizosphere, which can
look_ like a jelly or jam under the electron microscope, contains a
constantly changing mix of soil organisms, including bacteria, fungi,
nematodes, protozoa, and_ even larger organisms. All this ³life"
competes for the exudates in the rhizosphere, or its water or mineral
content.

I'll check it out.

Found this.

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/organic/msg0121101210881.html

"A SWEET END TO WEEDS
by Margrit Beemster
Sugar has the potential to control annual weeds according to recent
research trials conducted by researchers from Charles Sturt University."
From above url even speaks of sugar to help remove Dog Urine stains.



Is sugar water good for hummeres?

Yup just plain old sucrose 1 part to 4 parts water. No dye required
and it is not good for hummers. Have one feeder here and you have one
hummer. Have two feeders in sight of each other and I'll have one
hummer. Have three feeders not in sight of each other and we have many.

My latest book is "The fatal harvest reader : the tragedy of industrial
agriculture", edited by Andrew Kimbrell. Only just started and already
the book is into the fact that from 1982 to 2002 food production
increased faster than the population but that hunger increased by 11% in
the world. Fifty percent of antibiotics used in the US are used for live
stock and drug resistant bacteria are the 11th leading cause for death
in the US. Farmers who use standard agrichemicals have a seven fold
incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphomas in comparison to people who don't use
them.

Even rotenone is not good.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...tool=EntrezSys
tem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVD ocSum

Bill

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Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA