Corn Gluten Meal revisited
I posted this to another thread, but thought I would start a new one since it is somewhat of a different topic than what was being discussed in the original.
As many of you know, I experimented with corn gluten meal this summer. I filled three tubs with soil:
1) one just got seed - no corn gluten mean
2) one got seed and corn gluten meal spread on top
3) the third was like the second, only I buried the seeds under a very light coat of soil
I thought that the corn gluten meal would effect the germination/growth of the grass seeds. Nope. In fact, the tubs with the corn gluten meal were MUCH thicker than the one without it.
UPDATE: I dumped out the containers the other day. Amazingly, the root system in the tubs with corn gluten meal was INSANELY thick. They were right down to the bottom of the bin. When I dumped the bins, everything stayed together. In comparison, the roots in the non corn gluten meal container were very sparse.
Some have wondered if corn gluten meal works, in part, because it is such a good fertilizer. While I bet it works as a preemergent under the "right conditions" (which I wasn't able to duplicate), I think there is a lot to say about the fertilizer aspect. I am definitely going to fertilize at least once each year with corn gluten meal, even though I am not sold on its preemergent qualities.
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