If you take what the dogs [or any carnivour] leave and let it dry under cover in the open air, you get something very similar to Guano in a few months.
Ode At 09:06 AM 2/12/2004 -0600, you wrote: >I like your thinking here Wayne. I too grow some fantastic looking >produce - in containers, in a very small space with only weekly >additions of amendments. I do start out with a healthy soil mixture. I >suspect that many do not want to spend the money or go to the trouble of >starting with good soil. > >Compost, seaweed tea, bat guano, fish emulsion .... there are so many >ways to add natural sources of nutrients. And well you gotta do a little >reading, and weeding. Containers minimize the amount of soil, cut down >on the weeds and allow me to keep my plants away from the deer without >building an 8 ft fence, they won't come that close to the house because >of the dogs. > >Garnet > >On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 21:36, Wayne Fugitt wrote: >> Evening Garnet, >> >> >Exactly my point. You can not confirm the data so you really have no >> >information at all. It is not inconceivable that there is a hidden >> >agenda. >> >> I tend to agree with you. If it was as bad as everyone says, we would >> all be dead by now. >> >> I have lots of evidence to indicate my produce may in fact still have >> some valuable minerals contained therein. >> >> Typically, taste, texture, appearance and vigor of a plant tells you >> it is healthy. >> >> When an 80 year old farmer, who has grown tomatoes for 50 + years, >> tell me "these are the best tomatoes I have eaten in my lifetime", I have >> to pay attention. >> >> He also said that about my watermelon and my corn this past year. My >> soil is not the worst, plus I am using a scientific blend or "man chelated" >> nutrients. The only mineral that cannot be chelated easily is boron. >> >> I have grown sweet corn ten feet tall. Normally this variety gets >> only 5, 6 or maybe 7 feet tall. >> >> Cherry tomatoes have clusters that fork 5 times with near 50 tomatoes >> on a single cluster. >> http://www.fugitt.com/chertom.htm If you look close, you can see the forks >> in the clusters. >> >> Full size tomatoes set the fruit clusters very close together, 3 to >> 4 inches, with 8 to 11 tomatoes per cluster. I had one situation with >> full sized clusters less than one inch apart. As the cluster reached >> maturity, you could not get the finger between these clusters. >> >> I grow cantaloupes so sweet and full of flavor, they actually pump >> white sugar out around the stems. >> >> The okra is so good I eat it raw. Squash has better flavor than any >> you find. >> >> Of course feeding liquid nutrients each hour makes soil obsolete. >> >> This is all with "man chelated" nutrients. >> >> My goal one day is to grow a tall tomato plant. Some have produced >> 37 feet of main stem in one years growth. Not many people know a tomato >> plant will live for several years. I am sure I can hit 60 to 70 feet if >> that is my goal. >> >> A small plot of corn http://www.fugitt.com/corn_2.htm >> >> This is a home built measuring >> device. http://www.fugitt.com/tipspon1.htm Made from a plastic spoon and >> 1 optical sensor, I was able to get 1/6th ounce resolution. An event >> counter kept track of the tips per time. I wrote the software to run this >> system. It does full data logging of all events and data. >> >> I was also logging EC of the leachate over 24 hours. You could see the >> EC change when temperatures were highest and sunlight the brightest. This >> is when the plants remove the most nutrients from the liquid nutrient solution. >> >> I grow plants in soil, pine bark, mixed media, and hay bales. I have >> not tried growing them in AIR yet, but that is possible also. >> >> Sorry I got off subject, not all this is about "soil minerals". >> >> Some of the older log files exist here.... >> http://www.fugitt.com/wfipnow.htm Also some moon light data logging I got >> during an eclipse. This complete web page is the output of a program I >> wrote that embedded the data from my system into the web page and >> automatically sent it to my web site. >> >> Tons of fun, to say the least. >> >> Wayne >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. >> >> Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org >> >> To post, address your message to: [email protected] >> >> Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >> >> List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >> >> s > >
