bigbadbiddy
Active member
Howdy folks,
in the process of mixing up a new batch of coot's mix, struggling to get blood and bone meal for agriculture around here.
What I keep running into is a Fish, Bone, Blood meal mix...
Anyone have experience with that?
Coot's mix calls for equal parts of blood and bone meal as amendments. Could I replace those with a double dose of the Fish, Bone, Blood meal mix?
I have not informed myself about nor had any experience with fish meal. Since I had a bad ride last time around, where I replaced perlite for buckwheat hulls, I wanted to clarify first and ask for people with experience.
Problem I have is if I order the blood meal pure, I have to order it from one country and the bone meal from another. I am already pissed off that I have to order this stuff from around Europe, wouldn't mind if I can at least make it one order from one country ...
Another question while I'm at it:
I have the choice between dolomite lime with 5% magnesium oxide and dolo lime with 20% mgo. What would you guys take?
I figured I take the 20% mgo version and omit the epsom salts from the recipe. Last time I had the 5% mgo version and added epsom salts and I had a feeling sometimes that the plants might be a little magnesium deficient.
Hard to say though as it seems more and more like the buckwheat hulls were what threw everything out of whack and it is hard for me to determine if the soil mixes I had before were deficient in any area or if it was all from the buckwheat hulls causing all kinds of issues (PH, N deficiency for sure, compaction through composting and thus massive drainage issues leading to root rot etc.).
Alright, thanks for the feedback y'all.
All the best
BBB
in the process of mixing up a new batch of coot's mix, struggling to get blood and bone meal for agriculture around here.
What I keep running into is a Fish, Bone, Blood meal mix...
Anyone have experience with that?
Coot's mix calls for equal parts of blood and bone meal as amendments. Could I replace those with a double dose of the Fish, Bone, Blood meal mix?
I have not informed myself about nor had any experience with fish meal. Since I had a bad ride last time around, where I replaced perlite for buckwheat hulls, I wanted to clarify first and ask for people with experience.
Problem I have is if I order the blood meal pure, I have to order it from one country and the bone meal from another. I am already pissed off that I have to order this stuff from around Europe, wouldn't mind if I can at least make it one order from one country ...
Another question while I'm at it:
I have the choice between dolomite lime with 5% magnesium oxide and dolo lime with 20% mgo. What would you guys take?
I figured I take the 20% mgo version and omit the epsom salts from the recipe. Last time I had the 5% mgo version and added epsom salts and I had a feeling sometimes that the plants might be a little magnesium deficient.
Hard to say though as it seems more and more like the buckwheat hulls were what threw everything out of whack and it is hard for me to determine if the soil mixes I had before were deficient in any area or if it was all from the buckwheat hulls causing all kinds of issues (PH, N deficiency for sure, compaction through composting and thus massive drainage issues leading to root rot etc.).
Alright, thanks for the feedback y'all.
All the best
BBB