Side dressing

Lisa, please explain side-dressing to me. Or any of you knowledgeable folks. What, when, where, and how???
Thanks,
Grits

Grits
Sidedressing means applying fertilizer in a band beside the plants as opposed to incorporating it into the soil prior to planting.
Bud

Yep, that's right Grits. Altho often times I feed the plants at planting time and then side-dress later on as the plants need it. (Just don't embarrass your significant other like my ex-wife did once! She was just getting used to gardening terminology and to show she knew the phrases and words asked me rather loudly while in a crowded room, "Honey, did you cross-dress in the garden again!?" For a second the room got so quiet you could'a heard a mouse pee on a cotton ball...then total laughter as some of us realized what she meant to say! Needless to say it took me a while to live that one down!

Grits, most garden crops call for a side dressing after they are planted. Most of the time it is when they are just starting to "do their thing". That is when I like to side dress mine. Horseshoe, too funny!!! Cross dressing a garden!!! What would that be??? A flower patch dressing like a veggie patch!!! hee, hee! Bye, Lisa

This is getting too complicated.
Maybe we need a special forum on Proper Attire in the Garden?

You're too much Bud!
And Lisa, hmmmm...maybe I can come up with something like that!

Thanks, all. Horseshoe - how about fig leaves? They have no gender, lol.

Bud, thank goodness I don't have to did it in. I hate that because I would be afraid I'd cut the roots. How about composted cow manure? Lowe's may as well deliver their next 18-wheeler over here.

Wish I had a place to go and scoop it up - oh, well. The cotton gin has the by-product they call black dirt. It's $5 a truck load and they load it. Would that do the same thing as manure?

Thanks, Grits

Bud, I looked out my window this morning and saw my Lettuce dressed in Queen Anne's Lace!!! Wasn't a pretty site!Bye, Lisa

Well, there goes the neighborhood. *grin*

I think everyone is suffering from severe cabin fever. Maybe a few days of spring-like weather will bring us to our senses.
Grits be careful with the gin trash. It can be loaded with weed seed. Even though it may look well rotted or composted, most is not. I would hold it for a while before putting in the beds.
Bud

Thanks, Bud - I was going to do the dump into beds and garden as soon as it was dry enough to haul. Probably need to let it lay over the summer? then till in the fall?
Thanks! Grits

Grits

Here is a FWIW with cotten.

The Bagged Steer fertilizer has a problem.

If the steers are feed cotten gin trash, the manure
has a high salt content. I have seen numbers like 47 to 64 PPM.

Some plants have a low salt tolerance like at 100ppm

This stuff might affect your plants.

Byron