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  • From: "Dave Bennett" <dbennett AT micoks.net>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Organic Fertilizer ?s
  • Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 8:45:00 -0500




robert schuler <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net> wrote:
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I'm planning ahead 1 & 2 years on a couple of patches so the slow time
release shouldn't be a concern. My intent is to bring the soil into balance &
add compost &/or green manure crops from there.

>Hey Dave, 10 lbs/1000sq ft of 13x is equal to 56 lbs per acre each of
>NPK, 12% bloodmeal has 12 lbs of nitrogen per 100 lbs, so you would have
>to apply about 500 lbs per acre bloodmeal to reach the recomended level
>of nitrogen and you would do the same for P&K, but the only problem is
>that organic fertilizers have so much unavaliable fertilizer that
>releases later that using the simple percent numbers becomes a very un
>exact science, most organic growers that I know just depend on there own
>gut feelings and compost building formulas and measure there soils by
>the harvest results not the lab...
>Sunny Meadow Farm
>Bridgeton, NJ...
>
>


Dave




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