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- From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
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- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] cold frame advice sought
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:04:31 -0500
On Mar 1, 2010, at 1:28 PM, sarah wiederkehr wrote:
be careful when using compost or manure as a heat source in a cold frame. If not managed properly and too much ammonia is released, you can harm your plants. I lost all my tomatoes one spring due to ammonia toxicity from using manure as a heat source- it was too 'hot'.I'd also consider the current recommends to not use fresh manure closer than 90 days to harvest if the edible portion of the crop doesn't touch the soil, or 120 days if it does. This would work out all right for some crops but not others, I think.
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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Re: [Market-farming] cold frame advice sought,
sarah wiederkehr, 03/01/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] cold frame advice sought, Road's End Farm, 03/02/2010
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