Wondering when I should start fertilizing...people here don't start planting outside till end of May. We are having a frost tonight so I don't want a burst of growth and then get hit with a frost. My asparagus heads are just poking up as are the rhubarb. Also, what kind of fertilizer do you use? I was looking for Black Kow but couldn…
Wondering when I should start fertilizing...people here don't start planting outside till end of May. We are having a frost tonight so I don't want a burst of growth and then get hit with a frost. My asparagus heads are just poking up as are the rhubarb. Also, what kind of fertilizer do you use? I was looking for Black Kow but couldn't find it, only Grow Green composted cow manure. I have a big compost pile and projects this Spring will be building posts and wire for my 8 grapes and building a cold country chicken coop so can use composted chicken manure to be sustainable. Let me know if you have any plans for a chicken coop or where to find? Thank you for sharing all your valuable knowledge. Kay
We mostly use our homemade compost, but we also do fish emulsion to boost things early in the season. For blueberries, raspberries, etc we use fertilizers from epsoma (holly tone), and they give great results and help acidify the soil a bit as the berries like. We like to fertilize early in the spring, right as growth is starting, and then again just after the plants are setting fruit.
Is your homemade fertilizer made from compost? My husband screwed a few wooden pallets together and I've been throwing stuff into it for a year and it has shrunk by 50%. Is there a better way? I am going to start using it now. Have to take out stuff that didn't decompose.
Wondering when I should start fertilizing...people here don't start planting outside till end of May. We are having a frost tonight so I don't want a burst of growth and then get hit with a frost. My asparagus heads are just poking up as are the rhubarb. Also, what kind of fertilizer do you use? I was looking for Black Kow but couldn't find it, only Grow Green composted cow manure. I have a big compost pile and projects this Spring will be building posts and wire for my 8 grapes and building a cold country chicken coop so can use composted chicken manure to be sustainable. Let me know if you have any plans for a chicken coop or where to find? Thank you for sharing all your valuable knowledge. Kay
We mostly use our homemade compost, but we also do fish emulsion to boost things early in the season. For blueberries, raspberries, etc we use fertilizers from epsoma (holly tone), and they give great results and help acidify the soil a bit as the berries like. We like to fertilize early in the spring, right as growth is starting, and then again just after the plants are setting fruit.
Is your homemade fertilizer made from compost? My husband screwed a few wooden pallets together and I've been throwing stuff into it for a year and it has shrunk by 50%. Is there a better way? I am going to start using it now. Have to take out stuff that didn't decompose.