Good questions!!!
How do you make compost tea?
I make my own homemade compost and mine drips from
my twin barrel compost tumbler I have, when it rains... delute it down with some rain water and there's my tea...
But you can make your own, even if you don't have a compost pile...
Get a bag of compost from your local store,
and a bucket of water, and some cheese cloth and put a couple of shovels full of the bagged compost into the cheese cloth, tie it up and allow that to hang into your bucket and when the water mixes with the compost it'll infuse the water with the nutrients of the compost..
You can then water your
plants with it or put in a sprayer and spray your
plants as a foliar feed.
Very organic stuff....*but don't do this when the sun is shining hot down on your
plant, do like in the morning hours.. and not too late at night either, because most
plants don't like their leaves wet at night and can invite disease's.....
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Is miracle grow the same as spray and feed?
NO! Not really...
The Miracle Grow is as I understand it, man made, or synthetic or not totally organic...
It's wildly used and not harmful, it's just that I am on the lines of an organic gardener and really choose not to use it... (Only time I use something along those lines is Schultz Plus 10~60~10 for transplant shock when I'm transplanting because it's instant food for the
plant being moved)
Spray~n~Grow is an organic Macro~Nutrient spray...
It's great for some things, I'm a bit poor, so I don't use it alot on ALL of my
plants, have way too many to do that on...
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How often should I do this and should it be done also with the epsom salt?
the Epsom Salts are used, *lets' see where you live again* are you
growing zone 5 like me, probably...I use mine May 1st, June 1st, July 1st, and August 1st.. I don't do in April, cause it can still get a storm, snow, freeze, etc. in my area and the Epsoms' promotes basal growth, real tender and you don't want that when there's a chance of killing temps... and I don't use Any type of fertilzer on mine after August 1st, because I don't want any more new growth or
flowers on my
rose's becaue I want them to wind down from summer and go to sleep for winter...
Sprinkle the Epsom's around the drip line
***that info is posted on that one link about PRUNING
rose's above posts***
Yes you can use those both at the same time...
The Epsom's gets activated with rain water or hand watering. The other you can put on your
own schedule, but I am not the kind to over do, just a little or enough, don't want an explosion, just health...
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Fish Emulsion, is an organic by product of fish and fish parts....Great for
plants!!!
Awesome way to use the waste product from canneries and it's one of the best things organically for
plants, any
plant!!!
That can be used to water your
plants or also in a spray as a foliar feed...
And also, if you have a fish tank you can water any
plant with your fish water...**Unless it's a salt water tank, then it would be a no
no!!!**
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How'd I do???
Keep asking those great questions,
That's how you learn and get the gardening bug!!!
Weezie
P/S
I guess I should get a book, any suggestions?
Never a bad idea.... I am inflitrated with books, any and every book I can get me hands on!!
I love Rodale's series..
Kinda pricey, but worth the $$, but I read just about any publication...