Anyone Using Milorganite for Vegetable Garden?
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Using Milorganite on Bananas-For the Ultimate Growth!
Comments (39)If you averaged your winters lows over a 15-30 year period, which is what the USDA does, I think your area would be a solid 7b, but nowhere near an 8b or 9a. Not even Virginia Beach gets a solid 8b and is consequently still a zone 8a on the USDA zone map. Microclimates aside, you could possibly have to deal with 7a and even the ever more rare 6b temp in that period of time. Atlanta has even had zone 6a temps in a 30 year period. Milorganite is fine for the Trachy too and I use it in addition to palm fertilizer. I would up pot the bananas in a month or so and fertilize again. Musa Basjoo is corm hardy in our area and even futher north, so it can be planted in the ground and left out for the winter. It will grow much larger in the ground than in a pot anyday....See MoreNew gardener, vegetable garden questions
Comments (11)For the corn- it is probably not warm enough for them- in your house or outdoors just yet.They also like hot feet and sunny bodies- so probably not bright enough either- both of those factors can stress a plant/seedling- and compounding it with damp- on an already stressed system seems to bring discouraging results. I have made these observations with many of the seedlings I have started indoors- it does seem if I can get them warm enough- the other two factors don't matter as much- the same goes with if I can get them bright enough. I usually start sweet corn in the garden bed when the soil is warmer- but I do start ornamentals such as the variegated japanese and the indian corn indoors to have them ready to sell to others to grow on- Maybe if you put them out on bright sunny days and brought them in in the evening- or protected them some how in the evenings they might improve-...See MoreWhat soil/fertilizer should be used for my vegetable garden?
Comments (2)I would mix in an organic ready made fertilizer. The one I used last year came in pellet form in a bag. It was a combo of things like potash, bone meal, rock phosphate, etc. Compost itself is just one source of some nutrients. It's main use is making the soil nice and loose and ready for soil organisms. After planting, I use Miracle Grow spray once in a while. I don't use anyone's compost in my food garden because I have no clue what was in it. Last organic bag I bought had half of an old glittery shoelace mixed in....See MoreThe vegetable garden produces vegetables and roses.
Comments (14)Thank you Lilyfinch Oh !! I can not disguise my passion even speaking a language that is not mine? Oh! It is difficult to hide the emotions when they are very intense ... I check that the Google translator uses the same term when I write "garden" (total area, which includes ornamental plantings and there may also be an orchard area inside) and when I write "Orchard". He always translates as "Garden". Could you help me by telling me what term you use in English when you want to refer to the area where you grow vegetables? Is it correct to use the term "vegetable garden"? Thank you very much!! If I continue participating in this forum I will finish speaking English despite my absolute inability to learn languages hahahaha In fact I already know many terms that I do not need to use the translator, for example pruning, Deadheading, manure, mulching, bareroot, hardy ... yes, all the words that I know of English are referring to gardening !! Hahahaha How strange !! True?...See MoreRelated Professionals
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