Improve Your Outdoor Soil

mogie

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Organic matter is needed for good plant growth and desirable soil qualities. Sometimes a type of fertilizer known as organic ammoniates is used (blood meal, leather tankage, etc.). These increase growth because of their readily available nitrogen, but do nothing for texture or drainage. To obtain prolonged physical effects, depends on the nature of the material and its rate of decomposition. The beneficial effect of organic matter on the physical properties of the soil is distinct from the benefit of the nutrients. Everyone should have a compost pile; this is the best all-around amendment in terms of both nutrients and physical properties.
If its too late to start a compost pile at the beginning of the season, put on one of those paper filter masks, and throw this stuff together in a large plastic tub:

4 cups bone meal
2 cups gypsum
2 cups epsom salt
1 cup lime
4 T medicated baby powder
1 T baking powder

Make sure you use the paper mask as it is appearantly possible to contract mad cow disease by inhaling bone meal dust from infected cows. Mix this in your soil at rate of about a pint per bushel. This is just a quick fix, to
really improve your soil think long term. The structure of very sandy soils or heavy clay soils are greatly improved by the addition of organic matter. In a clay soil, porosity is increased, and in a sandy soil, will limit erosion. If your soil is very clay, try adding some gypsum as well. The organic matter should be finely divided to get a good distribution, but coarse particles may be neccesary where erosion is a concern. Keep in mind that the use of dark colored amendments on a light colored soil-suface wilcause a greater absorption of heat from the sun. Add ammonium sulphate to lower pH, lime to raise it. Later on if you think you need more fertilizer, into 20 gallons of water put:

1 can beer (enzymes)
1 cup ammonia (optional, you might not need N)
1/2 cup soap (helps wet soil)
1/2 cup of a complete organic fert with trace elements
1 can coke (sugar for the good bugs)

Go easy at first to see how they respond.

MR_NATUAL420
 

Claytronics

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Mogie where is that pic of that shit that looks like a wizard's beard. You know its all white lookin a shit
 

Wordz

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Make sure you use the paper mask as it is appearantly possible to contract mad cow disease by inhaling bone meal dust from infected cows.

I am really confused on why people get disgusted about urine used on plants but nobody is in the least bit concerned about blood/bone meals.
 

TillthedayiDIE420

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inhaling bone meal dust from infected cows.
Hmm, well say there was a infected cow and the infected bone meal your feeding the soil somehow gets taken up into the buds, Would we get MadCow from smoking the buds since were smoking them. just kidding:P




The Facts About Bone & Blood meal

Should fears of mad-cow disease keep growers from using factory-farm remnants as fertilizers?

Organic growers have voiced concern over the use of bone and blood meal as fertilizers for pot plants. Both have been popular in horticulture for many years and are very rich in readily available nutrients. The worry is that using these products could somehow transfer bovine spongiform encephalopathy(BSE), commonly known as mad-cow disease, into the plants, an thus into the humans that consume them. Though it's highly unlikely that the disease could be spread from cow parts to humans through plant, there are precautions and alternative available for those with reservations.
Bone and blood meal are made using animal parts from rendering favtories-ground-up leftovers such as bones, blood, organs and even brain tissue. In infected cows, some of these parts have been found to contain the prion proteins that cause BSE. These proteins, however, are far too large to pass through the cell walls of plants and therefore can't be infect vegatative tissue.
Breathing in bone or blood meal can also cause respiratory problems, headaches and nausea. One must exercise caution and wear as protective mask and gloves when using them, and always work in a well ventilated room. It's best to dilute them into water rather than spreading the powders directly onto or into your soil mix.
If you're still worried about the possibilities of contracting a disease from using bone and blood meal, there are safe alternatives. Feather meal, made from hydrolyzed poultry feathers, makes a wonderful substitute, realeasing nutrients slower for a more balanced feeding regimen. Fish meal, derived from byproducts of aquatic vertebrates, is a great source of phosphorous, along with some nitrogen and many micronutirents-perfect for flowering plants.
when used properly, bone and blood meal do provide nutrients safely; however, cautions and conscintious growers may wish to avoid them.
The moral implications of supporting the factory-farm system and the rendering industry alone may keep these products off your shelf, but the fact remains that ehy are safe to use as fertilizer and pose very little risk of spreading deadly disease.
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