A Life Uncommon: Gardening Sources of Specific Nutrients

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Gardening Sources of Specific Nutrients

Sources of Specific NutrientsMany of these fertilizers are available processed and packaged. You don't have to harvest your own.

Nitrogen: bat guano, blood meal, chicken manure, cottonseed meal, fish emulsion, kelp meal, livestock manure (composted)
Phosphorus: bonemeal, rock phosphate, super phosphate
Potassium: granite meal, greensand, seabird guano, shrimp shell meal, sulfate of potash, wood ashes
Calcium: bonemeal, chelated calcium, eggshells, limestone, oyster shells, wood ashes
Boron: borax, chelated boron, manure
Copper: chelated copper
Magnesium: chelated magnesium, dolomitic limestone, Epsom salts
Sulfur: iron sulfate, sulfur, zinc sulfate
Zinc: chelated zinc, zinc sulfate
Iron: chelated iron, iron sulfate

2 comments:

Denise said...: Awesome information.; February 16, 2009 at 1:04 AM
Susie said...: Great gardening information! Thanks for sharing that:-); February 16, 2009 at 5:56 AM

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A warm cup of tea is like a cuddle with a friend.
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The sage anticipates things that are difficult while they are easy, and does things that would become great while they are small. All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small. Therefore the sage, while he never does what is great, is able on that account to accomplish the greatest things."
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