"Billy" wrote in message
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:
"Billy" wrote in message
"David E. Ross" wrote:
On 5/9/2009 6:45 AM, wrote:
I had an organic gardening book from Sunset many years ago - we're
talking decades - that contained a recipe for making your own soil.
It had peat, sand, dolomitic lime and low-nitrogen fertilizer.
I'm looking at Sunset's "Western Garden Book" (second edition, 9th
printing, December 1965). On pages 31-31, they describe "U.C. Mix:
The
New Artificial Soil". According the the book, the mix was first
developed in 1950. The primary intent was to develop a mix for
container gardening and raised beds.
There are four different recipes for the mix, depending on the types
of
plants:
* general
* cacti, succulents, and other drought-resistent plants
* azaleas, rhododendrons, camellias, and other acid-loving plants
where
drainage is restricted
* light-weight for azaleas, rhododendrons, camellias
The mix is hardly organic. Even your cited dolomite lime is
inorganic.
All four recipes involve potassium sulfate and superphosphate. For
all
four recipes, there is also a single, standard follow-up monthly
feeding
that includes ammonium nitrate (which I think is restricted since the
Oklahoma City bombing).
If you want one specific recipe, let me know. I won't bother
transcribing all four recipes (almost 1-1/2 pages of small type).
You have the answer but you won't give it to him, because your's is
better? He didn't ask for your opinion. He asked for the recipe which
you acknowledge having. If you are a mench, you'll give him what he
asked for. Otherwise, know what you'll be? Yeah, you know ;O)
David's response makes sense to me.
I wouldn't want to type out a page and a half without more info from the
OP.
He didn't ask for more info.
He wrote:
"If you want one specific recipe, let me know."
That fits any definition of "asking".
He gave him a bunch of bull-shit and the
suggested his own mix that he has been publicizing in many of his recent
posts.
Billy, will you please stand back and have a good hard look at yourself.
You're beginning to make me think of James Lee Burke who can't seem to write
a book where any of his characters manage to have any civil interchange.
You post a lot of stuff that frequently doesn't answer the question being
asked and that many people would describe as being 'bullshit'.
That's your personal style. David answered the question using his own
personal style and from where I sit his response was not only pertinent but
sensible. I too would not bother to answer a question that involved that
amount of typing without knowing which recipe the OP wanted.
He did give the guy the issue to look for, which is good.
And your answer was to criticise someone who did answer.