Ok now I've got about 8 cow peas plants started. In a week I'll fertilize
using
Fish emulsion
Compost tea
Vegescrap boil down
vegetable Emulsion
Epsom salts
chemical
Mikracle gro nursery select
Shults all purpose
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OK you invited the challenge.. If you have and use
Fish emulsion
Compost tea
Vegescrap boil down
vegetable Emulsion
Epsom salts
why do you need the MiracleGro etc? Perhaps you should try the experiment, do one section of your garden with just the organics and one section with organic + synthetic and see if you can tell the difference.
Of course for best results you should continue the experiment over several years, since over time the synthetics are breaking down the tilth of the soil. I haven't done the experiment myself, but my prediction would be the first year you might get a small advantage to the section with added synthetics (but if you weren't careful with them, the advantage would all be in height, leafiness, and it would be a disadvantage in actual yield), As time went on the advantage would be more and more to the organics only. But speculation... do the experiment for us and report back
Fish emulsion
Compost tea
Vegescrap boil down
vegetable Emulsion
Epsom salts
why do you need the MiracleGro etc? Perhaps you should try the experiment, do one section of your garden with just the organics and one section with organic + synthetic and see if you can tell the difference.
Of course for best results you should continue the experiment over several years, since over time the synthetics are breaking down the tilth of the soil. I haven't done the experiment myself, but my prediction would be the first year you might get a small advantage to the section with added synthetics (but if you weren't careful with them, the advantage would all be in height, leafiness, and it would be a disadvantage in actual yield), As time went on the advantage would be more and more to the organics only. But speculation... do the experiment for us and report back
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organics is more than a quick fix like chemical based fertilizers. I doubt you will see the same results in a soil that has not been built organically over time.
if you kept doing it for a few years, and watched the soils. chances are the organic plot to increase in yield and health, and the chemical to be more dependent on well....chemicals.
if you kept doing it for a few years, and watched the soils. chances are the organic plot to increase in yield and health, and the chemical to be more dependent on well....chemicals.
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