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Yeah well there is that but sometimes the concept/orientation of 'small steps' is most helpful. UP

I wouldn't It's a marine deposit - just like Dolomite Lime, Limestone, Calcite Lime, Oyster Shell Powder. You wouldn't pay $50.00 for a bag of Limestone when the normal price is $8.00 would you? Just for a label? Your call....... UP

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Meal is the term used in the USA and elsewhere. Cake is the term used in India and most of the world. Same thing. I've been adding neem meal (or karanja) for over 3 years. 1/2 cup to 1 c.f. potting soil is the amount that I use in a soil that I mix. I wouldn't grow without it. The...

1/4 cup pure Aloe Vera extract (no preservatives) 1 tablespoon BioAg pure Fulvic Acid Added to 1 gallon of kelp meal tea (1/4 cup of kelp meal in 2 gallons of water bubbled for 24 to 48 hours} Applied each week. Sometimes I replace the kelp meal tea with Comfrey, Yarrow or Horsetail Fern...

Water only - fermented Comfrey teas will be added to the soil this week and sprayed with Lavender extracts with Aloe Vera, Horsetail Fern extract and BioAg Pure Fulvic Acid for pesticide, fungicide with the plants extracts and the Fulvic Acid functions by moving some of the minerals directly...

mrbong73 The compost pile you have going with the cinder blocks is a typical set-up for vermicomposting on a large(r) scale. The pit is loaded with manures, plant material, etc. and 15 - 20 lbs. of worms are added and it's left alone for about 9 months and the worms and vermicompost are...

CT_Guy Here's an article from 1978 in Mother Earth News - How To Make Cow Manure - Without a Cow An interesting approach if nothing else. UP

CT_Guy You certainly could do that and it would definitely take care of the stench. But that comes at a price. Since you and I last talked about FPE vs BIM (in general) I was taken to school by the scientists at BioAg and the information and links they provided me I learned the following...

LBZ Farmer A single Bocking 14 plant will produce 20 - 25 lbs. of biomass with each cutting and depending on where you live you can expect to get 4 - 6 cuttings per year. It does not smell at all while growing. It's when you make a fermented tea with it that the smell is pretty bad. Even...

Emulsifying the oil before adding it to water might be helpful and probably necessary to get any level of equal distribution in your tea/mix. UP

Bubblemang On this last round of soil mixing I decided to take the advice of JK, CC1, et al. and added 10% top soil and 10% forest floor humus. Which resulted in some flying gnats and while harmless are very annoying. I top-dressed each plant with about 1/4 cup of neem meal and watered it...

Bubblemang By volume I mix equal parts of neem meal/cake, kelp meal and crab meal (crustacean if it's available as it's both crab and shrimp from the Oregon Coast - goes quick). Mix these meals together and add 1.5 - 2 cups to 1 c.f. potting soil. Less if you're recharging the soil from a...

phenotyper Well - this 'old hippie' has practiced the method known as 'girdling' - a technique that I learned form an old article in Sinsemilla Tips Magazine circa 1988. Some people modified this legitimate process to include using a nail driven through the stalk. I never went that far but...

mrbong73 1. Beautiful garden - wow! 2. Nice job on the AACT brewer. Very nice indeed and looks like it is designed to be very effective. 3. What really impressed me with your photos was your garden cart. I was at a local nursery wholesale house this afternoon to pick up my new lights...

phenotyper If you're wanting to to apply salicylic acid per se you might want to consider a different source than aspirin tablets. Aloe vera extract (aka juice or gel) contains high levels of SA at a very affordable price. On the West Coast the retail food store, Trader Joes, carries 1...

According to the product's description this is made from (and I'm quoting) "made up of 100% pure Thyme botanical extracts" All mints (including Thyme) contain compounds which are effective fungicides. Used in conjunction with rosemary extracts you have a double-whammy with having both a...

Bubblemang Two companies in Oregon which distribute nationally (and some international orders) products that are extracts from a wide range of plants - Liberty Naturals and Mountain Rose Herbs. A group of products that they offer include things like cilantro oil, rosemary oil, etc. So I...

dextr0 For several decades going back to the late 19th Century, farmers used willow shoots for rooting cuttings by soaking them in water for several days. The active agent here is Salicylic Acid. So besides the SAR factors you also achieve increased root mass from this compound. Aloe Vera...

Bubblemang Azamax and Azatrol cost about $60.00+ for 16 oz. and you're getting the single compound, Azadirachtin. That's about $480.00 per gallon. A gallon of organic neem seed oil (NeemResource.com) costs $80.00 per gallon which will give you 256 gallons of mix. The levels of Azadirachtin...