[pbs] [SPAM] Potash: the key to Frit. imperialis
Mark BROWN
brown.mark at wanadoo.fr
Wed May 7 16:38:41 EDT 2008
Could not wood ash be a good substitute?
> Message du 07/05/08 21:38
> De : "Jim McKenney"
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> Roger Whitlock wrote: " The late Doris Page, a brilliant light on the local
> horticultural
> scene, once told me that the secret to success with F. imperialis was
> to give them potash."
>
> Is that by any chance potash as in sulfate of potash?
>
> I zeroed in to this earlier this year, thanks to a hint from another source.
>
>
> However, sulfate of potash does not seem to be available in the retail trade
> in this area. Or at least I have not found a source. Telephone calls to
> several local "nurseries" assured me that it was available. Delighted to
> hear that, I ordered several five pound bags.
>
> Every time I did this, when I went in to pick up the sulfate of potash, it
> turned out to be muriate of potash: not the same thing.
>
> The weak excuse given in each case: our supplier said it was the same thing.
>
>
> Also disappearing from the local scene: fertilizers with over-the-top
> phosphate levels. One I bought last year had the formula 10-52-10. Local
> concern about the explosive growth of algae in Chesapeake Bay (fueled by the
> high phosphate levels in runoff draining into the bay) have apparently nixed
> local sales of such formulations.
>
>
> Jim McKenney
>
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