permaculture

[John Schinnerer <JohnS@STLabs.com>]

Aloha,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: miekal and [SMTP:dtv@mwt.net]
>Anyone have recipes for making your own liquid fertilizer for container
>plants like figs, citrus, & various ethnobotanicals, using cheap &
>simple (or is the down & dirty) resources?

Two I know of:

"Compost tea" - soak finished compost in water for about 24 hrs., then
strain out the compost (well, all the big stuff, anyhow :-) and use the
"tea" to water the plants.

For providing primarily nitrogen - human urine (from people without
bladder infections, etc.), diluted with water.  I've heard lots of
dilution ratios; 10:1 seems to be most commonly recommended.  Be sure
nitrogen is needed - too much of this in a container plant could be an
overdose...

>been snowing a little bit here for a couple weeks, temp at 0 & below
for
>same duration, reminds me of winter.

OK, I won't complain about the weather here in Seattle... ;-)

John Schinnerer