Is it all I need???
Bed Preparation:
Native Soil, Compost, Lava Sand, Cornmeal, Zeolite, Natural Fertilizer, Shredded Mulch ( do I need to mix it all together including mulch? )
Organic Brench
Ingredients: Seaweed Extract, Kelp Extract, Molasses, Biological Stimulants, Apple Cider Vinegar, Fish Soluables, Trace Elements, Naphalacetic Acid & Thiamin.
Compost Tea made from cow manure ( how often do I need to us it? )
Just want to do everything right..........this time :0)
Desperate for an advise!
Sounds like a lot. What do you plan on growing? Have you tried to grow before, and what were your results?
I would leave out the natural fertilizer and the mulch and then mix everything else together. I'm not sure about Zeolite, though. I have no experience with it. I would go light on the cornmeal as it's high nitrogen. I do sprinkle a bit in my holes when planting tomato transplants, though. I also use it to help control fungus-type growths in my veggie beds.
I would only fertilize once or twice during the season. Sometimes too much fertilizing stimulates foliage growth, not fruit production. What else do you have in your compost tea? It should be 50% green stuff and 50% brown stuff.
I'm very new in gardening, have not done anything really accept a couple of tomatoes and some herbs.Did tons of researches about organic growth........probably a little to much :) I'm really enjoying it, but also want to do the right way.
I was going to make a compost tea only from cow manure, Black Kow from Lowe's ( I wish I could make my own ) Not good?
I would ask over in the organic gardening forum. To make compost tea, you need 1/2 "green" and 1/2 "brown". The cow manure alone might be too strong for your tea.
We garden organically and we live in TX with heavy, goopy clay soil. We added mushroom compost, Texas green sand, lava sand, compost from our compost pile, and cotton burr compost. I sprinkle cornmeal and earthworm castings in the hole when I plant transplants. I also use cornmeal to help with any fungus type growth in my beds or yard. In the right time of the year, we use it as weed control.
My advice is that less is more.
Start simple and add more (or less) additives each season. That way you can better judge the results.
Thank you all for your responds! I will try to experience with different things, add more or less and just watch it.However, is it a special cornmeal or the one for cooking?
It's horticultural cornmeal, not the regular cooking cornmeal. You can usually find it at a feed store or organic garden center.
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