Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Magnesium Sucrate can be purchased from J & J Nursery in Layton. Ask for Jim Nokes. 801-544-1212

Jim KENNARD

--- In MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com, "seedplanter_max" <seedplanter_max@...> wrote:
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> I'm using the Perlite for the wetness problem but wonder if you know what places in Utah would sell a 50 lb. bag of magnesium sucrate. I have children there I visit frequently and could arrange to get some during a visit.
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> --- In MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com, Jim Kennard & <tryptophane@> wrote:
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> > We have problems with the weekly feeding formula absorbing moisture and hardening into cement-like clumps. Can the mixture be diluted with water and applied as a liquid weekly? This would save us the struggle of trying to break it up every week.
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> > Yes it can.
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> > A better long-term solution would be to mix perlite with the Weekly Feed. Use 1# of Perlite with 60# of WF.
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> > An even better solution would be to change your magnesium source from Epsom Salt (10% mg) to something that does NOT have 7 parts water to 1 part magnesium. However, this usually requires that you buy your magnesium from a farm supply or co-op store, and you'd likely have to buy it 50# at a time. I use magnesium sucrate (36% mg)when I can get it. There are other compounds also available, depending on where you live.
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> > Jim Kennard
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