Re: [tomato] Tomato Digest V1 #154
Byron.Bromley (Tomato@GlobalGarden.com)
Sat, 27 Feb 1999 19:54:08 -0500
Folks
According to Readers Digest book of Organic Gardening by Geoff Hamilton
the average plant needs the following to grow properly
Nitrogen 1.5% Iron 0.01%
Phosphorus 0.15% Zinc 0.002%
Potassium 1.5% Copper 0.00006%
Magnesium 0.2% Magaganese 0.005%
Calcium 0.5% Boron 0.002%
Sulphur 0.1% Molydbenum 0.00001%
Some plants require a little more or less nitrogen or a little
more or less phosphorus than others. If all this is avaiable
should have no problem growing what you want. All of it is
avaiable in manure. With most commercial fertilizers you need to
add some magnesium.
As long as the soil is at the right pH plants will absorb all these
nutiments and give you the maximum growth and friut
Byron
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From: Louis Mensing <lmensing@rio.com>
To: Tomato@GlobalGarden.com
Subject: Re: [tomato] Tomato Digest V1 #154
Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 5:56 PM
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From: margaret lauterbach <mlaute@micron.net>
To: Tomato@GlobalGarden.com <Tomato@GlobalGarden.com>
Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [tomato] Tomato Digest V1 #154
> I have run searches for mycorrhiza, and nearly all of the
>sites that I've found are commercial sites selling it and talking it up.
I
>guess I'll have to restrict my searches to .edu and see if there is any
>independent source (not that university ag professors are necessarily
>independent). I would like to get info from someone who isn't profiting
by
>its sale. I don't appreciate the nastiness here, either. Margaret
Here are some sites for research:
http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/~dmsa/index.htm on this site find the
'search'
and type in 'tomato'. You will have to go to an agricultural library
however to find the Journals.
http://mycorrhiza.ag.utk.edu/
http://www.pacificcoast.net/~mycolog/fifthtoc.html an overall view...not
specifically tomatoes
And no Chuck, the stuff isn't refined manure.
I really feel at a loss here. If we only are going to 'talk' about
heirlooms, then your list and
http://GlobalGarden.com/Tomato/Archives/vol.1/index.html about covers it
Chuck. There's not much more to say.
Sincerely
Louis Mensing