Re: Fwd: HOW MUCH fertilizer?!
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- Subject: Re: Fwd: HOW MUCH fertilizer?!
- From: b*@pacific.net (Vickie Brock)
- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 19:18:27 -0300
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>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.
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Marv,
I would say approx 8ounces....per cup..................so 8 pounds would be
16 cups in a thousand gallons that is about 1/4 the dose which is proably
right.................the trick is how do you now how much is leached and
used and the word on that is watch the tips of your plants.......dark green
as they are unfolding chill out dont fert....lime green keep on
track,,,,,seems that tomato fert is high in nitrogen ....but I can't
remember.......good luck marv..................
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