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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Eggplant
  • Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:51:20 -0400

Courtney -

Rex Harrill shared the following with me on the BRIX list. This is from Dan Skow, who is well known eco-ag consultant. Apparently, in some twist of the non-certified insight, ammonia is acceptable to use on eco-produce. ( I Hope this doesn't turn out to be the recipe for a bomb!!) Please let me know how this works for you. _Allan PS The book is from ACRES USA www.acresusa.com

The American fertilizer industry has made life difficult for a
serious grower. Aqua ammonia, for instance, is unavailable. In the
case of the tomato grower with all leaves and vines and no fruit, I
told him to buy Bo-Peep ammonia at the local grocery store,
enough to apply one quart per acre. The cell needed this form of
nitrogen-and it needed water as well. So I told the tomato grower
to purchase apple cider vinegar for carbon. A half gallon of
vinegar with a quart of Bo-Peep in twenty gallons of water made
a perfect spray for the crop. Forty-eight hours later that tomato
patch sported the most beautiful layer of blossoms ever. At the
end of a week, the tomato patch was loaded with marble-sized
tomatoes. A week later some of the fruit started to drop off. After
a second spraying the crop took off again. We did that four times
during the season. Later in the season I tripped to Lancaster, Pen-
nsylvania to see the results. That farmer couldn't get the entire
crop harvested.
The bottom line here is that there are nutrients that force a plant
into seed production, and there are those that provide for growth.
Once the seeds are started, the emphasis shifts from seed produc-
tion back to growth.




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