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Re: Fish and kelp meal

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If you want to purchase fish meal or kelp meal, don't go to the garden
store; try the feed store instead. You can buy 50-lb. bags much more
cheaply there (if they don't have it, they can order it). It's a pricey
initial investment for so much, but you can split the cost with a
friend, or know that you won't have to buy more for a long time!

I also buy cottonseed meal, alfalfa pellets and calf manna through the
feed store for fertilizer and to keep the worms happy! I learned about
these things from a "Building Healthy Soil" class at the local botanic
gardens.

Kitt
Rocky Mountain Zone 5



S McCoy wrote:
> 
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> Right on target Dore:
> Kim, there are many types of natural fertilizers that are not necessarily considered manures.
> 
> You can buy or make your own fish emulsion. I learned how to make fish emulsion from an article in Organic Gardening magazine...the same place I learned about Mel. Just remember that fish emulsion is like any strong tonic...it stinks!
> 
> Fish emulsion is probably the very best and cheapest organic fertilizer...I remember when I learned, in Social Studies, how the Native Americans taught the Puritans how to use fish to fertilize the corn?
> 
> Drop one small fish or large minnow in the whole, cover with a bit of soil, plant three corn seeds, and cover the seeds with about a half inch of soil. Water!
> 
> Some people mentioned using kelp for fertilizer!


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