"Tim" wrote in message
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I grow everything in containers, and use Pro-Mix BX as the soil medium.
Very happy with it. It drains so well, I worry that the water soluble
fertilizer leeches out too quick. A garden expert whose podcast I listen
to Ron Wilson is an avid proponent of Osmakote, a time release
fertilizer.
Does anyone use a time release, and how do you think it works for you?
Do you still give your plants extra feedings?

I use Osmacote for indoor plants and pot plants. I'd never consider using
it for something I planned to eat.

FarmI wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message
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I grow everything in containers, and use Pro-Mix BX as the soil medium.
Very happy with it. It drains so well, I worry that the water soluble
fertilizer leeches out too quick. A garden expert whose podcast I listen
to Ron Wilson is an avid proponent of Osmakote, a time release
fertilizer.
Does anyone use a time release, and how do you think it works for you?
Do you still give your plants extra feedings?

I use Osmacote for indoor plants and pot plants. I'd never consider using
it for something I planned to eat.


Ok, round two....8-)
Please explain.
And btw, thanks for your input!

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"Tim" wrote in message
FarmI wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message
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I grow everything in containers, and use Pro-Mix BX as the soil medium.
Very happy with it. It drains so well, I worry that the water soluble
fertilizer leeches out too quick. A garden expert whose podcast I listen
to Ron Wilson is an avid proponent of Osmakote, a time release
fertilizer.
Does anyone use a time release, and how do you think it works for you?
Do you still give your plants extra feedings?

I use Osmacote for indoor plants and pot plants. I'd never consider
using it for something I planned to eat.
Ok, round two....8-)
Please explain.
And btw, thanks for your input!

For decorative plants, I am concerned about how they look therefore the
bigger and more overblown they are the better they meet that criteria.
Chemicals do that in bucket loads - think gross or force feeding.

For food, I am concerned about taste, nutritional quality, yield and
keeping ability. Organic growing gives me that although given that I use
trace elements once a year that come in a pack I don't claim to be a true
organic grower. I use only animal manures, compost and teas however on beds
in additon to the once yearly trace elements. I started my veg garden on
dirt (not soil) that looked and acted like concrete and where not an
earthworm was to be seen.

Justification for that would be impossible to do in a post as I'd have to
give you 40 years reading, and garden observation cut to less than a bone.
Some clues: Billy's post about soil biota and ad to that brix and baume.
Do a google.

In article , Charlie wrote:

old *******

Hey! I represent that remark. Humph.

Odd you planting Jersey Giants tomorrow, I'm planting UC 157.
Planning on getting an early start and it should be cooler. Hit 95F
(35C) today after 68F (20C) a couple of days ago. I came back from
shopping feeling as light headed as an old man.
I plan on starting early tomorrow and the high is only supposed to be
81F (27C). Sliding back to 66F (19C) on Friday. Eating from the salad
patch and the carrots are showing. I'll enjoy my head start for awhile
but your warm evenings will have you out in front of me in no time.

The hanging petunias are showing very nicely. They may replace some
geraniums that have gone toes (?) up.

When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too. ~Linda Solegato
--

- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI29wVQN8Go

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html

In article ,
Rick wrote:

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:55:17 -0400, Tim wrote:

FarmI wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message
...
I grow everything in containers, and use Pro-Mix BX as the soil medium.
Very happy with it. It drains so well, I worry that the water soluble
fertilizer leeches out too quick. A garden expert whose podcast I listen

to Ron Wilson is an avid proponent of Osmakote, a time release
fertilizer.
Does anyone use a time release, and how do you think it works for you?
Do you still give your plants extra feedings?

I use Osmacote for indoor plants and pot plants. I'd never consider using
it for something I planned to eat.


Ok, round two....8-)
Please explain.
And btw, thanks for your input

It works great for heavy feeders like the strawberries I grow in
containers on the deck. It is not "organic" but actually it is made
from organic materials. I do, however, supplement on occasion, but
only with an occasional feeding when growth is rapid or a lot of
berries are forming.

Is he lazy or just malicious.
His senses are disconnected from rational thought.

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/whoOwnsLifeNotMonsanto.php
Who Owns Life? Not Monsanto.

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/DMPGR.php
Death by Multiple Poisoning, Glyphosate and Roundup

Four different Roundup formulations of the herbicide glyphyosate
manufactured by Monsanto are highly toxic to human cells, and at
concentrations far below the recommended agricultural use levels.
Researchers at the Institute of Biology in Caen , France published their
latest results in the current issue of Chemical Research in Toxicology

http://www.naturalnews.com/023254.html
Monsanto: History of Contamination and Cover-up

http://deltafarmpress.com/news/070903-Monsanto-Patent/
Monsanto seed patent 'rejections' leave questions
Sep 3, 2007 5:06 PM, By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/f...monsanto200805
Monsanto's Harvest of Fear

Know your enemy.
Archer Daniels Midland, ConAgra, Cargill, American Cyanamid, Ciba-Geigy,
Monsanto, Dow, and Syngenta are the most obvious.

They want to be paid, every time you eat.
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- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI29wVQN8Go

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html