Re: Re: CULT: stratifying seeds, and more

Dear Jim,
Hear in Kansas. I go to the local Farmers C0-0P and tell them I want bone meal they feed to piglets for calcium. It comes in 40 or 50 lb bags and runs under $10.00. I have not priced it this year but I am certain it is not highter than that. It is steamed then dried to powder form to mix with feed for strong bones. Be sure to dig it in a little or the local dogs and cats will eat it. If you have a CO-OP in your area I am sure they can get it if they do not already have it. I get mine at the mill, but it is so popular with gardeners here all the outlets carry it. The same with alfalfa pellets and meal. Blood meal for roses. 10-10-10 granulated fertilizer. and many other things. All are cheaper by the quantity, 40lb. bags. I believe the brand name on a lot of this is Farmland Inc. CO-OP usually buys the cheapest in these ingredients as they are relatively the same regardless who packages them, they have few fillers except to keep some products from clumping. You can also get gypsum or lime from CO-OP. Anyone can buy there, or orderby phone. Here for a charge they will even deliver, come out and fix a tire, bring gas for your car. 
Good Luck finding what you need. I know I have saved hundreds going this way.
Sincerely Wendy Zone 5 still a lot of snow turned to shear ice by 50 degree weather yesterday. Hopefully it will melt off today.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: majorcanis@aol.com 
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 6:19 PM
  Subject: [iris-talk] Re: CULT: stratifying seeds, and more 


  Stratification:
         Last year I did the refrigerator method and got reasonably good 
  germination. This year I am letting nature do it. I rescue foam boxes that 
  fish come in holding about 1 cu. foot of soil from a local pet store. I have 
  a huge supply of potting soil I prepared last summer. I am planting the seeds 
  in these boxes and covering deeply enough, about 1", to take possible heaving 
  and squirrels into account, and watering generously. Tho hardly an authority, 
  I understand that some seeds have germination inhibitors and that repeated 
  flushing with water should wash it away/out. This week so far we are not even 
  going below 32 F, but later we will, and will likely have at least 8 more 
  freeze thaw cycles. I think that ought to work. 
         Re: PIG FOOD bone meal. I spoke with a local far supply today when I 
  bought some super phosphate and they could not identify a product or brand 
  that had a high bone meal content. Would the person who made this suggestions 
  please elaborate?
  They did warn me that oil prices will result in fertilizer prices when the 
  spring shipments come in, which was one reason I stopped by anticipating this.

  Jim Harrison
  Asheville, NC  




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