Re: OT: 0:60:0
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- Subject: Re: OT: 0:60:0
- From: D* L* <d*@dynamicro.on.ca>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 06:24:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca>
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Jan Clark wrote:
> From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
>
> >In the standard listing of the fertilizer analysis the first number
> refers to the nitrogen content, the second number to the phosphate
> content, and the third number to the potash content.
>
> Oops! BIG OOPS! Yes of course N-P-K, and I know this well.
>
> BTW I was planning on using Yeates plant food which is:
> 5.0:5.5:4.1, with 12.0 Calcium and 11.5 Sulphate
> Any comments on this? I also have a large heap of wood ash which I would
> like to use. Some will go around the lilac. Should I put this around my
> TB's or just layer it in the compost? Jan Clark, Australia
> Take it easy with wood ash. It will give a very basic pH to any
garden bed( like 9 or 10). Put it on your Compost heap with a sprinkler
ie a plastic bottle with holes drilled in the top. Basic stuff, even
dry, attacks glass so don't use your salt shaker.
Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca> <- private email address
cold edge of Zone 4 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
AIS, CIS, SIGNA, IRIS-L, Canadian Wildflower Soc.
URL for the North American Native Irises web page
http://molly.hsc.unt.edu/~rbarton/Iris/NANI.html
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