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Is there anything better than Blood and Bone?
"Linda" wrote in message
... I know some swear by chook poo, some seasol, personally I can't find anything better than blood and bone. :-)) I don't limit myself. I use cow poop, horse poop, blood and bone, pelleted chook poop, bagged cow poop, seasol, 'Sudden Impact for Roses', Blood and bone with added sulphate of potash, compost, rotted leaves and anything else that comes to hand including elephant poop which grew the best corn we've had yet. I also use fire ash and dolomite, rice hulls, lucern chaff, hay and lucerne straw. I have a big garden on poor soil which is finally starting to improve and I feed it by direct fertilising, by mulching and with scavenging. |
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Is there anything better than Blood and Bone?
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:17:59 +1100, FarmI wrote:
:-)) I don't limit myself. I use cow poop, horse poop, blood and bone, pelleted chook poop, bagged cow poop, seasol, 'Sudden Impact for Roses', Blood and bone with added sulphate of potash, compost, rotted leaves and anything else that comes to hand including elephant poop which grew the best corn we've had yet. I also use fire ash and dolomite, rice hulls, lucern chaff, hay and lucerne straw. How much does all this cost each year? In the last five years, "chicken manure" (floorscrappings from chicken raising sheds) has doubled in price. This all sounds very expensive. I have a big garden on poor soil which is finally starting to improve and I feed it by direct fertilising, by mulching and with scavenging. Works, but can take a few years to start getting decent crops. |
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Is there anything better than Blood and Bone?
"terryc" wrote in message
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:17:59 +1100, FarmI wrote: :-)) I don't limit myself. I use cow poop, horse poop, blood and bone, pelleted chook poop, bagged cow poop, seasol, 'Sudden Impact for Roses', Blood and bone with added sulphate of potash, compost, rotted leaves and anything else that comes to hand including elephant poop which grew the best corn we've had yet. I also use fire ash and dolomite, rice hulls, lucern chaff, hay and lucerne straw. How much does all this cost each year? In the last five years, "chicken manure" (floorscrappings from chicken raising sheds) has doubled in price. This all sounds very expensive. Not a lot - in fact I think my garden is cheaper than any of my other hobbies if I dont' count the plants I buy. We have our own cows, I own chooks, a neighbour has at least 20 horses (and alpacas - I forgot to mention their poop - they poo in piles). The elephant poo was free when the circus came to a town near us and the local radio asked for gardeners to pick it up - I was first there with my ute. I last bought a big bucket of Blood & bone (now nearly finished) about 4 years ago and the plastic bags of Suphate of Potash aren't extortionate. I last bought a BIG bag of pelleted chicken poop I think at the beginning of last Spring and it's just about done now and I need more. I buy the 'Sudden Impact for Roses' in a huge box and that is the most expensive thing I buy but I believe it's worth it. The rice hulls I buy in a bale - dunno how much that is. Lucerne is expensive but it's THe best thing IMHO for mulching tiny seelding and it also feeds the ground - I think it's about $18-25/bag but the bags are huge. Compost and leaves are free and I even collect them from a Guild I belong to that has about 6 mature Oaks in the yard. they love me to collect them as the gardener rakes and bags them and if I take them they don't have to pay to take them to the tip. I also buy hay bales and use them round beds and after a season I break them up and spred them as muclch. I just bought a new lot and they cost me about $80 or $90 for 9 bales. I have a big garden on poor soil which is finally starting to improve and I feed it by direct fertilising, by mulching and with scavenging. Works, but can take a few years to start getting decent crops. My first veg garden was about 6ft long and 3 ft wide and the plants were pathetic. I now have a veg garden with some fruit trees too that is bigger than many townhouse plots and it's now very productive. That's taken about 17 years to get to it's current stage doing it a bit at a time but it gets more productive each year. I also have an orchard which also serves as the day run for the chooks and it'd be about a quarter of an acre and it seldom gets any fertilising because of the chooks. |
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Is there anything better than Blood and Bone?
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message . au... "Linda" wrote in message ... I know some swear by chook poo, some seasol, personally I can't find anything better than blood and bone. :-)) I don't limit myself. I use cow poop, horse poop, blood and bone, pelleted chook poop, bagged cow poop, seasol, 'Sudden Impact for Roses', Blood and bone with added sulphate of potash, compost, rotted leaves and anything else that comes to hand including elephant poop which grew the best corn we've had yet. I also use fire ash and dolomite, rice hulls, lucern chaff, hay and lucerne straw. I have a big garden on poor soil which is finally starting to improve and I feed it by direct fertilising, by mulching and with scavenging. importantly, you forgot coffee grounds. If you can persuade a local cafe to put them aside for you they are an excellent source of organic matter. Ask the cafe not to put bottle lids, fag ends etc in with the used ground. Paper is ok. I got a regular supply for a couple of years & it did my gardens fine. Also diverts the waste going in to the landfill. rob |
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