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Post by catfishtony on Jun 20, 2012 16:27:55 GMT -5
the picture should say enough  this is the baby pool i cook the tea in for bulk feeding.  old fish tank water,rabbit poop,and rain water. and the final mix= about 13.5 gallons for 70 plants  each plant gets a cup full a little over a pint i never measure it out i just use a old cup right at the base of each plant.
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Post by nuts on Jun 24, 2012 16:21:47 GMT -5
Must be yummie for tomatoes,not sure about the milkpowder.
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Post by Good Mind Seeds on Jun 25, 2012 10:56:34 GMT -5
i use milk on my tomatoes for the calcium and nitrogen. people use it to prevent blossom end rot (BER). i put in the milk 2-3 times in a year, from when they start flowering to when the first fruits are ripening. after that there is usually no more risk of BER. the milk is best in a ratio from 1/10 to 1/20, milk/water.
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Post by Good Mind Seeds on Jun 25, 2012 10:58:28 GMT -5
nuts what all do you use for your tomatoes?
i use very few things. just milk and soil tea here and there. mostly i dont even water but i put soil tea in my container plants.
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Post by catfishtony on Jun 26, 2012 18:15:00 GMT -5
that it for the most part
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Post by nuts on Jun 28, 2012 15:21:56 GMT -5
nuts what all do you use for your tomatoes? i use very few things. just milk and soil tea here and there. mostly i dont even water but i put soil tea in my container plants. Well I just gave a moderate amount of chicken manure,in march with the tomatoes planted in may.it's better to have some rain on the manure before planting anything, to make it 'melt'. That was ok this year,but maybe it's better to spread it earlier,in winter, to be sure. I give them loads of grass to. I thought in stead of feeding the grass to the cows,milking the cows transporting the milk to the industry,transporting the powder to the store,then transporting it to your house,I might as well feed the grass directly to the plants(as mulch),in fact to the soil fauna that transform it in kind of milkpowder(lol) for the plants. If you count a cow have to eat 50kg dry grass to produce 1 kg of milkpowder (just a guess),that gives an idea how much dry grass your lawn have to produce. Interesting idea though,milkpowder,in case I run out of grass. ;D I'd like to learn about your secrets about container growing,how do you make soil tea. I try to grow some tomatoes in containers just for trying,in this case a dwarf type of tom wagner(Betames Mc Beth) Maybe I just should try that milk powder thing,soil organisms are maybe not so effective in containers.  You see they produce tomatoes(cherry) but the the plant is looking ugly and won't go on for long time I think |
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Post by catfishtony on Jun 28, 2012 21:08:33 GMT -5
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Post by Good Mind Seeds on Jun 28, 2012 21:54:43 GMT -5
cows accumulate the calcium into their milk. it is much more effective to prevent blossom end rot than just mulching which i do also. the soil here has less calcium than what tomatoes need and also the containerized fauna culture is not sufficient to quickly transform mulch to water soluble nutrients to the end of preventing BER. i know that oak leaf ash is another place to find accumulated calcium as it remains after the other substances burn off. container tomatoes have always needed some help in my experience.
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