Fwd: HOW MUCH fertilizer?!

There was a recent post by Brock regarding how much fertilizer to give your
plants. I talked to an expert at Miracle Grow and posed the following
question. If you had a 1000 gallon tank of water and a 1000 square foot garden
and you were watering enough to give the garden one inch of water per week
(640 gallons of water) and you only wanted to add enough Miracle Grow to your
water such that you would only be replacing the fertilizer used by your
pumpkin plant and that which leached out of the soil from watering and if you
soil was 70% sand, 20% silt and 10% clay with 10% organic matter, how much
Miracle grow would you add to the 1000 gallon tank of water? He told me to add
8 pounds of Miracle Grow Tomato (lower in phosphate than the regular). What do
you think of this advice? And how much does one cup of Miracle Grow (16
Tablespoons) weigh? Help me with this Brock.

Marv in Altoona

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  • To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
  • Subject: Re: HOW MUCH fertilizer?!
  • From: b*@pacific.net (Vickie Brock)
  • Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 14:42:38 -0300
>O.K., I figured on feeding my pumpkins with Miracle Grow 15-30-15, at least
>until fruit sets, but nothing ever mentions how MUCH to feed, as in how many
>gallons at 1 Tablespoon per gallon. I read where someone said they fed about
4
>POUNDS (POUNDS?) of it to his plants. That is confusing since I always
measure
>in gallons. I don't think it is supposed to be any stronger than 1 Tablespoon
>per gallon. Tha standard recommendation on the package is 1 gallon for every
>10 square feet. Should this be different for AG pumpkins? How do all the
heavy
>hittters do it? (and how often?) The AMOUNT of fertilizer is always left out
>of all the stuff I have read about growing AG pumpkins! Oh, at planting time,
>I did add an organic (Ringer) 7-7-7 granular fertilizer (with slow release
>nitrogen) already. Anyway, can any of you give me some advise on this?
>Thanks!!!!
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Steve,

This is a common question.....and there is no fixed formula by all
growers....they all do different amounts of fertilizing...according to the
soil test...it is best to stay within the reccomendation on the package and
stay consistent,,,,,,, that  amount of fert,,,,,was put into how many
gallons of water?........i have a 300 gallon tank and it makes it easier to
figure the right ratio 16 table spoons to a cup and thats only for 16
gallons so for the whole tank takes about 18 cups  I use half that
amount.or 1/4 of that..so mine equals about a 1/2 Tb. per gallon.......but
it sounds outrageous like 8lbs of fert..........brock


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