What are the most inexpensive sources of chemical fertilizers for high
nitrogen application?

ooha wrote:
What are the most inexpensive sources of chemical fertilizers for high
nitrogen application?




Pee.

Human urine contains lots of urea, a good nitrogen source. And the price
is right.

Lorenzo L. Love
http://home.thegrid.net/~lllove

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Cicero

I use a bale of straw in a corner of an unused shed. Anybody wishing to relieve themselves while in the garden is free to do so. After about 3 months I get a wonderful rich brown composed ready for garden use. Obviously easier for men than women!

Hair.

It takes a while to compost in the pile but it is a god source. I collect a
bucketfull a week from a local barber. I would avoid the hairdressing salons
because of the chemicals.

Ed

In article , "ooha"
wrote:

Just get urea. It is 40-0-0. That is almost all nitrogen. You do not
pay for the other, frequently non-essential, items.

Dick

What are the most inexpensive sources of chemical fertilizers for high
nitrogen application?

"ooha" wrote in message . ..
What are the most inexpensive sources of chemical fertilizers for high
nitrogen application?

I of course have used urea (46-0-0) in the past but another good,
cheap source of nitrogen which is virtually free are green manures,
grass clippings (best mixed with brown), and another really "green"
(stinky) is when we go picking peas right around this time of year
(maybe next saturday). the shells of two bushels of peas (which we
freeze) go bad very quickly, and are nitrogen rich (smell really bad).
Currently in my developed garden (one that has been composted
regularly since 1997) my only sources are kitchen scraps, grass
clippings, horse manure and pea shells, applied about 2 inches every
second year.

also, lets not forget pulses crops, with peas and favas my favorite
ones. One crop injects enough nitrogen in the soil that no fertilizer
is needed for three years of normal veggie gardening. More if the pea
plant is chopped and thrown back in.

Pee.

Human urine contains lots of urea, a good nitrogen source. And the price
is right.

don't forget to spread the pee around, not just in one place...too
much pee becomes a herbicide...

Another excellent source of HIGH nitrogen content is chicken manure. Look in
your yellow pages for a chicken of egg farm. Be carefull with it though. It
not only stinks like ---- but it will also burn your plants.

Ed

ooha wrote in message
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What are the most inexpensive sources of chemical fertilizers for high
nitrogen application?

Grow comfrey, then chop the leaves and compost them in water as a liquid
fertilizer. Smells like hell, though.

Comfrey flowers are great for attracting bees.

s.

Here's another god source

http://www.christiananswers.net/kids...gbenefits.html


(Laser6328) wrote in message ...
Hair.

It takes a while to compost in the pile but it is a god source. I collect a
bucketfull a week from a local barber. I would avoid the hairdressing salons
because of the chemicals.

Ed

In article ,
someone wrote:

ooha wrote in message
.. .
What are the most inexpensive sources of chemical fertilizers for high
nitrogen application?

Grow comfrey, then chop the leaves and compost them in water as a liquid
fertilizer. Smells like hell, though.

Comfrey flowers are great for attracting bees.

IIRC comfrey is illegal in some places -- due to invasiveness.

-f
--

I was told to help kill slugs in my garden, mix 1 part ammonia with three
parts water, and spray around my plants where I saw the tiny baby slugs. Well,
in my back yard I now have 6 foot tomato plants. In my front yard they are half
the size. I guess Ammonia is a real good and cheap nitrogen source.

In article ,
(Jack1000) wrote:

I'm not sure that ammonia is all that cheap in the quantities you would
purchase. Certainly, it is almost totally nitrogen. It is probably the
major fertilizer used comercially.

Dick

I was told to help kill slugs in my garden, mix 1 part ammonia with three
parts water, and spray around my plants where I saw the tiny baby slugs.
Well,
in my back yard I now have 6 foot tomato plants. In my front yard they
are half
the size. I guess Ammonia is a real good and cheap nitrogen source.

On 06 Jul 2004 13:30:43 GMT in
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Hair.

It takes a while to compost in the pile but it is a god source. I collect a
bucketfull a week from a local barber. I would avoid the hairdressing salons
because of the chemicals.

Ed

a bucket of urine from the barber a week? Surely he could do better
than that.

I'm not sure that ammonia is all that cheap in the quantities you would
purchase. Certainly, it is almost totally nitrogen. It is probably the
major fertilizer used comercially.

Dick


My supermarket sells ammonia for about $1.50 a gallon. I thought that was very
inexpensive.