http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=246x11269Oh my. Plain old horse shit won't do, apparently.
tekisui (1000+ posts) Wed May-06-09 08:37 AM
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The Source---- the Best V****e Fertilizer I Have Ever Used
http://www.smartpakequine.com/productclass.aspx?product...
The Source is a horse supplement. It is dried and ground blue-green algae.
From their website:
SOURCE contains an extremely broad spectrum of at least 60 elements and their associated micronutrient compounds in a biologically active form. SOURCE contains small amounts of naturally occurring vitamins (14), the 14 currently recognized "essential trace elements", the 21 trace elements now under special consideration with respect to essentiality, plus other unidentified associative factors whose role in nutrition has not yet been established.
SOURCE contains a proprietary blend of Pure Dehydrated Seaweed Meals...and nothing else! All-natural, concentrated herbs of the ocean.
It is marketed as a horse supplement but is an AMAZING fertilizer. I put one small scoop mixed with the soil for each tomato, and then feed the plant about once a month. It is the only fertilizer I use, and my tomatoes jump out of the ground. When my friends' plants are about 2 feet high, mine are chest high. I get more tomatoes than I can eat, and canned 12 jars last year off of 9 plants. It is good for every veggie I have used it one, I haven't found a down side. No burning, all organic. Just wanted to share.
No comment. Thus saith the owner of the William Rivers Pitt.
madeline_con (1000+ posts) Thu May-07-09 12:09 AM
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1. Wait, one scoop is a 1/2 ounce...and 5 lbs. is $7.85? Is that accurate?
tekisui (1000+ posts) Thu May-07-09 09:39 AM
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2. That is correct.
I can't believe how cheap it is online. I have to pay $40 for a 5 lb. bucket at the Horse store.
HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Fri May-08-09 06:43 AM
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3. At your price it's economical about 5 cents per application.
If you live near the ocean, though, you can pick up all the seaweed you like for free. I sometimes put it in the compost.
Mom, the primitive woman bothered by cold weather:
troubleinwinter (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-03-09 06:01 PM
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5. NO.
14oz. = $7.95
5 lb. bucket is $25.95.
amerikat (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-15-09 12:06 PM
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4. I ordered 5 lbs.
Should be delivered tomorrow. I'll let you know how it works in my garden.
beac (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-04-09 05:15 PM
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6. I Googled and it looks like several farm-related stores in my area carry it.
I've heard seaweed is a good fertilizer and this seems like a more economical way to get it as compared to some of the $10-a-pint brands I've seen at my local nursery.
What ratio of water-to-Source do you use when mixing up a batch? (or do you side-dress it into the soil every month?)
tekisui (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-08-09 12:52 PM
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9. I just scratch it into the soil around the base of the plant.
I have mixed it in a watering pail before, and just water the plants proportionally.
conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-06-09 09:01 AM
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7. worm castings is another good one
Our county farm agent recommended it this spring.The beds i used it in germinated faster and are doing better than the beds without it.
Blue Gardener (1000+ posts) Tue Jul-07-09 12:40 PM
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8. I'm using worm poop fertilizer this year
Everything looks fantastic!
Antique swine excrement works even better, though.
GardeningGal (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-09-09 03:44 PM
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11. For those of you that tried this, how has it worked so far?
I'm thinking of ordering some and using on my vegetable garden and maybe even my grass and flower gardens. Since it's close to the end of season, I was thinking it may be good to even use prior to the first winter snows to replenish the soil before spring.
You know, franksolich still thinks about taking the William Rivers Pitt, that 740-cubic-ton mountain of old pig droppings, bagging it up, and selling it to the primitives. This stuff is antique, from circa 1875-1950, pure, and produced by prize-winning pigs of yore.
If the primitives are willing to pay $26 for a five-pound bucket of unrecycled horse feed, I'm sure I could get at least $10 a pound for recycled swine food.
