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You can use any seedmeal.  Some places the local seedmeal is cottonseed,
others it's soy -- whatever the feed store sells.  You can also use
alfalfa meal.  They all have an N value in the range of 3-6, but it's
not the number that's important, it's how and when the nutrients become
available.  

If you use one application of 10-10-10, for example, most of the
nutrients have leached away by the third good rainstorm.  If you use one
application of a seedmeal-based fertilizer the nutrients become
available in small quantities over the season.  They are not washed away
because they are either taken up by the plant as they are released, or
they are still locked up in the seedmeal.


Michael D. Cook wrote:
> 
> At 09:41 PM 3/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >>I use soybean meal(50# bags), bone meal (20# bags), and green sand (50#
> bags).
> >>All cost under $10 per bag.
> >
> Hi; what is the nutrient ratio of soybean meal?  I have never seen it for
> sale around here.  Does it release nutrients quickly, or is it a
> slow-release fertilizer like bone meal?  Green sand you use to condition
> the soil, is that right?  Thanks for any information.
> 
> Sheila Smith
> mikecook@pipeline.com
> Z 5/6
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