Fertilizing and Watering
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Subject: Fresh Fish as Fertilizer?
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Carolyn Phillips |
Nauvoo, Alabama
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Will Fresh Fish under the pumpkin vine do much help on fertilizing? One fish, two fish, three fish? Or am I talking my self into something too easy that will not work? OR not good enough?
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5/30/2007 6:03:27 PM
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Tremor |
Ctpumpkin@optonline.net
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Ahh.....ancient early American secret. Burying fish is good since bacteria get working on it quickly & animals are less likely to find it. Rather old school though. Plus animals might dig & that might be ugly.
Grinding them up & straining it into a sprayable would be nice. Then bury the remaining slurry.
The amount to use? See first line or just consider that fish is 10% Nitrogen (about) so even 1 pound of fish is a lot for a seedling.
If you do this I would keep a large barking dog on a short leash a slightly greater distance from the buried fish. To scare away raccoons & cats.
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5/30/2007 7:24:52 PM
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TruckTech1471 |
South Bloomfield, Ohio
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Steve's right. The critters will come a callin'.
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5/30/2007 8:34:44 PM
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Andy W |
Western NY
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I'll be putting some more fish in the garden tomorrow.
The white bass are biting, and I gotta do something with the guts.
Like they said, make sure you bury down at least a foot or so, more if you have critters. I put them at least 5 or 6 feet from the plant so they get a chance to break down before the roots find them.
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5/30/2007 9:43:19 PM
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springwater |
Gays Mills,WI
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Bury deep so they dont stink.
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5/30/2007 11:30:24 PM
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Carolyn Phillips |
Nauvoo, Alabama
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thanks for that info. grinding sounds yucky.
Will dig as deep as i can.---towards a foot. And several feet away from the pumpkin fruit that is already growing just under the vine/joints. and hope the coons dont find it.
No big doggies here. And the vine is 200 feet away from the house but near the road side.
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5/30/2007 11:32:51 PM
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WiZZy |
President - GPC
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Use a bassa-matic.....after making compost tea the next great trick will be to grind your own fresh fish......
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5/31/2007 8:44:50 AM
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UnkaDan |
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NO WAYYY,,bassa-matics are wayyy to valuable as collector items these days,,,,geeeze WIZ what are you thinking? :-)
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5/31/2007 12:03:21 PM
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WiZZy |
President - GPC
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Sorry Dan, Im Bad
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5/31/2007 12:45:04 PM
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Engel's Great Pumpkins and Carvings |
Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)
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Wiz just feed it to the dog...after it eats the fish it will barf it up :) problem solved
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5/31/2007 1:37:53 PM
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Carolyn Phillips |
Nauvoo, Alabama
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rofl
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5/31/2007 5:29:40 PM
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Fissssh |
Simi valley, ca
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I just got threw grinding several hundred anchovies & putting them on patch, I found a perfect old sausage grinder At garage sale 2$ It grinds then up to a thick mush-Then thin it with water & i throw it onto soil, then water in. Even a lot just disaperes & withen 2 days no trace , & that way they wont dig directly under plants ! Iv burryed & they dig & iv tryed the mash & no diging .
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6/2/2007 2:18:11 AM
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Richard |
Minnesota
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I went to a fish market and got about 15 pounds of fish carcasses, they were glad to give them to me, I barried some fish under each plant, I did catch a cat sniffing around where I barried the fish, also I was told it is best to do that, barry fish in the fall.
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6/3/2007 3:01:13 PM
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