[MittleiderMethodGardening] Re: 34-0-0
Ammonium Nitrate is prime material for manufacture of improvised explosives, so the Feds have clamped down on it. There are many sources of nitrogen, including urine. A friend of mine mad a bomb from urine in prison camp in WWII in the Philippines.
If you use Chicken manure, watch out for nematodes. Around here at least all the chickens are infected and the manure needs to be composted at high temps to kill them.
John Odom.
--- In MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com, Nancy Kosling <koslinglaw@...> wrote:
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> Shelly Beans and all of MittleiderMethod Gardening Group:
> Because commercial ammonium nitrate seems to be hard to get in small amounts,
> consider natures resources. If you or your neighbors raise hens in a coup,
> volunteer to rake the hen house out in exchange for a few eggs. The poop is
> nearly 100% ammonia-nitrogen. In a bucket toss in a shovel full of hen poop in
> a plastic 2.5 gallon bucket (about one pound). Add water to the two gallon mark
> in the bucket. Stir and let solids settle to the bottom. Gently pour the
> manure tea into your watering space leaving solids in the bucket to add more
> water. Add the left-over solids in your compost. A secondary resource is
> rabbit droppings. A third resource is you. Relieve your bladder into the
> bucket.. add two gallons of water. The water will not burn your plants roots as
> it is very diluted. Nancy Kosling
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> From: shelleybeans57 <MArri1998@...>
> To: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wed, June 8, 2011 3:25:25 PM
> Subject: [MittleiderMethodGardening] 34-0-0
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> I've finally gotten my seedlings in, but I can't find ammonium nitrate anywhere.
> It is recommended to put 1 cup of ammonium nitrate down the middle of the seed
> bed right after transplanting seedlings. Even the farm supply places say they
> don't carry it anymore (possibly because it's used in explosives.) They said I
> could get it in bulk from places that sell to commercial farmers, but I only
> need 5 cups. I can find nitrogen in the form of urea, but I'm afraid it might
> burn my new transplants. Any ideas? (Use Urea - JK)
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