Bone meal, Blood meal, Phosphorus

Does anybody have a list of what each kind of vegetable wants to be treated with? For example, I know that lettuce wants to be ammended with blood meal, and tomatoes with phosphorus, but what about all the rest of my veggies?

Is there an authoritative list to use as reference anywhere?

Dave

Dave
You might try Rodale Press and Organic Gardening. UT's extension service might have a list.
I use bloodmeal to keep rabbits out of the garden.

Blood meal is for nitrogen, bone meal is for phosphorus, green sand is for potassium. Leaves love nitrogen; flowers, fruits, and roots like phosphorus; potassium helps build stronger plants with increased cellulose to fight insects, diseases, and cold.

Dave, I mix up my own fertilizers. I try to get the equivalent of as balanced a fertilizer as possible. I don't just put either N, P or K on them. Hope this helps. If you'd like me to post a list of the amounts of N,P and K in available organic fertilizers just let me know. I also use epsom salts on my tomato plants.

Terri

I wish there was book somewhere with the optimum fertilizer for each plant AND the optimum ph. I Never see the ph listed except generally under an article in Organic Gardner's Encyclopedia.

That's exactly what I'm looking for, too, woodspirit1. Perhaps one day we'll get the Plants DB v2.0 up and running with fields for all kinds of extra information.

Question.
I saw on a TV show (I thing 20/20) a few years ago a thing on bone meal, blood meal and I think it was parkinsons. There was a leading scientist in england doing research on a link between them and before he could complete and publish his finds he was sent to prison for child molesting. I have heard the finds sorta pop up here and there since then but nothing concrete. Anyone else heard about that? I THINK the guy showed a link between rose gardeners and parkinsons because rose gardeners use a lot of bone meal.

Sari
I remember something on Dateline about that and also they mentioned bone meal and mad cow disease.
Dave
I think Ortho's Garden Problem Solver has the ph requirements in it for specific plants. I know I've seen them somewhere. I'll have to go thru my books and find which one it was.

Sari

Parkensons was linked to an Organic pesticide Rotenone.

5% Rotenone is also banned in many states because it gets into rivers and kills fish, Many years ago Ortho had a Tomatoes-Vegtable dust, Rotenone, methoxychloe and captan.
I was first pulled from the market and methoxychlor was blameed for the fish kill.

Blood meal does not smell very nice after a rain..

Bone meal, The bone meal used in US is NOT being imported from Britian, Many sources of bone meal are now using Poultry bones, double check the label.

For veggie's here is some help.

NMSU fert chart
http://www.cahe.nmsu.edu/pubs/_h/h-159.html

NMSU nat. fert chart and veggie chart
http://www.cahe.nmsu.edu/pubs/_h/h-120.html

Fertility guide NCSU
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/sustainable/peet/soil/fertilit.html


Hope this helps
Byron

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