Has anyone tried putting a piece of fish in their holes when planting? I have a pond behind my house that I fish at occasionally and could easily catch a couple (were really only talking two or three) and cut them up for planting with my tomatoes and peppers. I have read about making a fish emulsion and using it as a watering\side dressing for plants but the whole blending and storing of dead fish is turning me off. it would be much easier just to cut them up and throw them in the hole.
Any experiences or opinions? Thanks!
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- Super Green Thumb
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My grandfather used to go "shrimping" in Beaufort SC every summer when the SC DNR would open the waters for bating. He used a mixture of white clay and this stuff he called "Fish Meal" to make a bait for the shrimp. The fish meal was basically ground up fish and it was pretty coarse, you would see some partial scales, bones and such if you looked close enough. He use to buy it in 50lb bags at the local feed and seed store and would usually buy 25-30 bags of it. I used a few left over bags in my garden one year, pouring it pretty thick (maybe 1-2" thick by 10" wide down between my tomato rows. Then I tilled it under maybe 5" deep. Gave it a good watering and within a month my tomatoes exploded and grew over the 7 foot mark. I wound up having to stake each one with a 1"x1" 10 foot board.
A word of caution though, when wet fish meal stinks really really bad.
A word of caution though, when wet fish meal stinks really really bad.