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What's happened in the garden fertilizer market these days. I finally have a decent patch of soil, after years of container growing only, yet all I can find is Epsoma organic products - very expensive for what you get, and very slow acting, more like a soil amendment. The other choice seems to be small boxes of miracle grow, a quick acting, totally soluble "quick green up" type product, that you can only get in smaller package sizes.
Some years back, I used to be able to get pelletized balanced fertilizer, with slow release nitrogen, but that seems to have disappeared from the market except for lawn fertilizer.
Anyone know what gives? I'm looking for bulk 20+ pound bags of something more than Epsoma's 3-3-3 or so stuff. More like 10-10-10 or better.
Yes, went to Tractor Supply yesterday. Out of 10-10-10 but found a bag of pasture blend that I can use in my garden and on my lawn. Yes, TS seems to be the place! Thanks.
I've been using this with pretty good success. 8-8-8 sprinkled around seems to help the plants out. I also add in some MG Garden Soil bags and till in each year to successively build the bed.
8-8-8 would help plants out of course, but with a big garden like mine, that size bag, for which I'm sure you paid a pretty penny, isn't much, unfortunately. Maybe a pallet of it.....
Wonder what "protein technology" is? Any organic material is derived from proteins (and nucleic acids and lipids that make up cells)
Those fast dissolve fertilizers for hose end sprayers are good for quick green up, since the nitrogen is available immediately, but you need to use them frequently, every week or two, for decent results. Over the course of a season, that's a lot of fertilizer.
My favorites are those dry fertilizers with pelleted, slow release nitrogen, similar to the better lawn fertilizers.
8-8-8 would help plants out of course, but with a big garden like mine, that size bag, for which I'm sure you paid a pretty penny, isn't much, unfortunately. Maybe a pallet of it.....
Wonder what "protein technology" is? Any organic material is derived from proteins (and nucleic acids and lipids that make up cells)
Yeah I work a 10x20 area so not large but it's really not expensive under $10 for the bag.
I have two beds total about 10x what you have. Sigh.
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