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  • From: "Mike Emers" <rosie-ck AT mosquitonet.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Boron application
  • Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 05:46:31 -0900

We’ve spread fertibor at 2-5 lbs/acre mixed in with our fish bone meal (a local product) prior to planting.  I’ve also spread solubor as a foliar feeding with kelp.  At what time in the plant’s life is the best time to do a foliar feeding  - say for broccoli or cauliflower?

 

Mike Emers

Rosie Creek Farm

 

-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of zaid AT norwichmeadowsfarm.com
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 5:17 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Boron application

 

we run it through drip tape at very low rates (solubor). spoon feeding we like that.

Zaid Kurdieh
Norwich Meadows Farm


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Market-farming] Boron application
From: Paul Bucciaglia <pbucciaglia AT yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, February 26, 2006 8:47 am
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org

Hi,

 

I was wondering if there are people here with experience with Boron fertilizers?  My soil tests 'very low' on boron and I have deficiency symptoms in broccoli, cauliflower, and celery.  I grow 12 acres organic veg (I have a CSA, lots of different crops all over the fields) on sandy loam soils with about 3%OM.   I was thinking I would broadcast borax (15%B) at 8lb. to the acre (1lb. boron) and disk it in. Additionally, for sensitive crops like broc, I plan to spray solubor at .2 lb/ac B a couple weeks after transplanting.  I was going to cut the borax 50/50 with gypsum which would up my application rate to 16 lb/acre and walk it on with a cyclone seeder in 2 directions.  I was hoping the borax would give me a seasons worth of borax vs. spraying the total field surface with solubor (I read the B in Solubor is very soluble and quickly leached).

 

Any commen ts or ideas?

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

 



Paul Bucciaglia
Fort Hill Farm
Organic Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers
18 Fort Hill Rd.
New Milford CT 06776
(860) 350-3158
www.forthillfarm.com


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