Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

There is a method which I accidentally found that can increase the N in a liquid compound to 10 mg/l without spiking the solution with any chemicals. Yes there is spiking and people who do that and label organic are caught and told to remove their products from the market or relabel them.

--- In Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com, "stevechristian81" <stevechristian81@...> wrote:
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> Beware of fertilizers with over a 4% N. OMRI recently found a so called organic fertilizer spiked up with synthetic fertilizers. Almost all fertilizers with higher than 4% N have been spiked with Synthetic products. They catch you by having one of their products being within range and labeled organic and have the rest spiked.
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> Buyer beware!
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> Stevechristian81
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> --- In Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Strong <jeff_faithwalker@> wrote:
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> > Dolly,
> >   Yes this and Organic garden group. Thanks to modern science the organic fertilizers are now boxed and bag in pellet and granular form. And they are rated the same way as the Petro chemical fertilizers are. So and all purpose fertilizer means that the amounts of the NPK are equal like N 10 - P 10 - K 10
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> >  However the fertilizer itself is comprised of Organic materials. I suggest a field trip to the nursery( not a garden center) is in order and go to the section of Organic Fertilizers and look for brands like Whitney Farms or Dr. Earth and read the panels and talk to the nursery folks.
> >   Good call though, sometimes us old timers assume where we should clarify and you just clarified that point. Thanks.
> > jeff
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> > From: "torgesen@" <torgesen@>
> > To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 12:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Organic_Gardening] companion planting
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> > I'm brand new to this group, but I was under the impression that this was a group for organic gardening. I don't believe "all purpose 10-10-10 fertilizer"
> > is organic. But I suppose you could substitute compost for the fertilizer.
> > Dolly
> > from La Porte IN
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> > From: Jeff Strong
> > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 5:26 PM
> > To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [Organic_Gardening] companion planting
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> > Hi Sharon,
> > No. First establish the corn and let the stalks get a few feet on them then around the base of the stock plant 4 beans one on each side and then between the stocks plant the squash.Now Corn and squash are heavy feeders so you will have to side dress the rows with a good all purpose fertilizer like a 10-10-10 for the first part of this adventure and when the stocks set bloom then switch to a fertilizer where the numbers are like 1-1-10 the last number being larger than the first two and this change will facilitate the crops to develop nice big fruits. Also these guys are heavy drinkers so you will want to water them at least once a day for about 10 to 15 minutes either at the end of the day or early in the morning.
> > Jeff
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> > From: sharonm <smassena@>
> > To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 8:24 AM
> > Subject: [Organic_Gardening] companion planting
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> > If I plant corn, squash and pole beans together, do I take the 3 seeds and pop them all in the same hole?
> > And how far apart should they be planted. It seems squashes should be planted less frequently because of
> > their roaming abilities
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> > thanks
> > Sharon
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