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  • From: John Cowan <vivax AT northlink.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] fertilizers
  • Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:33:02 -0700

Bill,

I have been injecting various organic materials into my drip system for years. Of course, I am not trying to suck up globs of liquid fish. I dilute it substantially with water in a 5 gal bucket. Same for soluble kelp, molasses, yucca. Compost tea is pre-filtered. The whole drip system is protected by a large 150 mesh Y filter which seems to do a good job of protecting emitters. I have heard, tho, that some inline emitters (like T-Tape) have very small openings and hence be more problematic. I inject using a side tap on the intake of my jet pump. A small ball valve allows some control of the rate.

John Cowan

Bill Shoemaker wrote:

Pam

Thanks for your response. I was a little concerned of something like that.
But I'd like to hear from others as well. Any different perspectives?

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist - Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html







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