[Garden] Planting update

[gcmichal at envmail.uwaterloo.ca]

I don't think we need to worry whether a tiny bit of fertilizer  
applied to little weeny bedding plants is organic or not.  Just use a  
good quality fertilizer with both macro and micro nutrients.  The best  
balance for these purposes can be achieved with a specially formulated  
product.  Ask Lynn for a recommendation if you wish.  The fertilizer I  
use at home for bedding plants contains the three macronutrients  
nitrogen, phosphosporic acid, potash (= pottasium oxide); and the  
trace elements iron, manganese, zinc, copper, boron and molybdenum.   
It's applied at a rate of about a teaspoon per 5 litres of warm water.  
  Compost is often not particularly nutritious, depending on its  
origin.  The bagged, compost-based commercial seed starter mix I  
bought this year is disappointing and so low in macronutrients that  
I've had to apply fertilizer at  only 4 weeks when the tomato plants  
are still only 3 inches high.  Usually I don't need to give them a  
boost until three weeks later.

- Greg Michalenko

Quoting Ian Wormsbecker <iwormsbecker at sandvine.com>:

> Probably compost would be the best fertilizer. However, it will not be
> sterilized :(
>
> Ian
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>> To: garden at lists.wpirg.org; Candace Wormsbecker
>> Subject: [Garden] Planting update
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>> Hey gardeners,
>>
>> So the plants are doing well and I will thin them possibly
>> next week when my presentation for my thesis is finished.
>> Lynn, the greenhouse manager, was suggesting that we apply
>> some fertilizer on the plants as the nutrients in the poting
>> soil will be rapidly consumed befor we transfer them to the
>> garden.  There are organic fertilizers available but lets not
>> get the fish meal type as it stinks really bad and it might
>> attract pests.
>>
>> Stephanie Lyons
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>> Quoting Candace Wormsbecker <candace at owr.ca>:
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>> > Awesome job!  Thanks to Paul and Maddy for putting this together:)
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