Re: Fertilizer Mixture
- To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: Fertilizer Mixture
- From: "* F* <s*@concentric.net>
- Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 06:57:36 -0800
dot use miracle grow to anything this is not good for you plants, use
something better suited for this
steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Lubadub <Lubadub@aol.com>
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date: Saturday, March 07, 1998 5:49 AM
Subject: Re: Fertilizer Mixture
>Ron:
>
>You are asking whether to add one or two tablespoons of miracle grow to
each
>gallon of water that you add to your plants? Well another consideration is
>"How many gallons of water are you adding and how"? Along the vine? At the
>base of the plant? How often?
>
>There are many ways to do this. One way is to add one tablespoon to each
>gallon of water and to distribute two to four gallons of water to each
plant
>by putting it along the main vines and at the base of the plant three times
a
>week. Diluting it down in this manner tends to keep from burning the leaves
>though the more concentrated solution of two tablespoons per gallon
probably
>would not hurt them.
>
>The main rule for adding fertilizer is to add it slowly and regularly and
in
>amounts that will replace what the plants are using up and what is washed
out
>of the soil by your watering techniques. If you could start out with
perfect
>fertilizer content in your soil at the beginning of the year and then just
>maintain it throughout the season in as constant a manner as possible, I
>believe that would be ideal.
>
>There are many thoughts on this and by persons much more expert than I.
>
>Marv in Altoona PA
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