Re: seedlings & fertilizer

> We do not use fertilizer on our seedlings and they seem to do just fine.  
> I know their are those out there that do with good success but we like to 
> use as little chemicals as possible.  Also we seem to get good results 
> without fertilizer so why mess things up.

Again, a weak solution applied more often is better than a lot applied
rarely.  Like food in humans.  Also like humans, better to be on the
lean side than the fat.  This is (unlike humans) especially true for
seedlings, whose delicate root systems may not survive a heavy
fertilization.

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Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com)  Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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