Biggobelly
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Which is better to add as an amendment to my basic soil recipe? Feather meal or Blood meal? Which will provide the micro-herd a longer lasting source of N to break down (given using equal amounts)?
Feather meal is made from the ground feathers of birds such as chickens raised for consumption. It is partially hydrolyzed under high heat and pressure, and then ground up. Growers use this byproduct for its high nitrogen levels, despite the fact that plants cannot easily absorb it in this form.
I'd go for alfalfa meal.
http://gentleworld.org/whats-hiding-in-your-organic-fertilizer/
I'd stay away from blood and alfalfa meal.
Kelp and neem are all you need.
even the argument against feather, bone & blood meal is pretty much ethical;
feather, blood and bone meals work WONDERS in soils, really they crush it, but have recently fallen out of favor among organic growers, for fear of anti-biotic residuals and industrial meat industry residuals
but
they kill it in terms of amendments, imo would beat the pants off neem meal. kelp is pretty key
even the argument against feather, bone & blood meal is pretty much ethical;
feather, blood and bone meals work WONDERS in soils, really they crush it, but have recently fallen out of favor among organic growers, for fear of anti-biotic residuals and industrial meat industry residuals
but
they kill it in terms of amendments, imo would beat the pants off neem meal. kelp is pretty key
Quite the ego there.
Alfalfa delays flowering and elongates flowering times. Thats why.
Read the White Paper studies.
I can understand why you would say to not use blood meal but what is the argument against alfalfa meal?