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The white/grey granules are also water-soluble fertilizers and their
effects lessen as the season goes on.  They can also have several
negative side effects when used in large quantities -- but I use 5-10-5
in small quantities when I think it appropriate.  Sometime our late-June
weather is cool and rainy so I give the corn a boost with a very little
5-10-5, for instance.  

I always buy my fertilizer materials at feed stores.  The little boxes
are designed to appeal to yuppie organic wanna-bees.  Way too expensive
for a good Scotsman like myself.  They are much cheaper when sold as
animal feed.  Kelp meal is pretty expensive no matter what, but it does
incredible things in fairly small quantities.  I buy the materials in
40- or 50-pound bags and mix them as necessary.  Of course my garden is
1/4 acre of which 4000 square feet is in cultivation in any given year. 
(Some of that is perennial beds like strawberries and asparagus, which
don't really count as cultivated.) 

Steve


nonayobusiness wrote:
> 
> -- [ From: nonayobusiness * EMC.Ver #2.3 ] --
> 
> Hi, Steve, When you talk about water soluble fertilizers, do you mean
> something like Miracle Grow?  I am talking about the whitish grey granules
> that come in a bag, and you just sprinkle them all over the soil and turn
> it in.  Unfortunately, where I live, NOTHING is inexpensive.  All those
> things you were talking about come in little 5 pound bags, and each thing
> costs about 5 or 6 dollars a bag.  I have no complaints about our yields,
> though, I guess the compost we add each year is helping out.
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