Who took my phosphorus?

 

   I was at Wal-Mart earlier, about to buy a bag of Howard Johnson
fertilizer, when I noticed that it had a "0" where the phosphorus number
used to be.

   It also said something like "now more environmentally friendly, with
no phosphorus".

   Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't phosphorus necessary for
flowering and fruit production?

   I don't exactly apply this to my lawn - one bag lasted me 5 years the
last time, since I sparingly side dress my plants.  However, I'm annoyed
that now the bag lacks one of what I consider the 3 most important parts
of a fertilizer.

 

wrote:


In a lawn?

Could be that too much phosphate gets into our water ways, causing algal
blooms, which, when it decomposes, kills the critters in the water, or
the phosphorus flows to the ocean, where it does the same thing, and the
areas are called "dead zones".
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/28/naomi_klein_the_real_crime_scene

 

Billy wrote:

This is the case.  It is also the case that runoff from excess nitrogenous
fertiliser creates many an algal bloom and mad growth of water plants
choking up waterways.  Therefore the chemfert company should make their
stuff doubly environmentally friendly by taking out the N as well as the P.
It would save on production costs too.  This is how to be mean and green.

David

 



OK, let's call it what it is, nitrates,
the bane of the petroleum fed garden.

But, then we wouldn't have blue babies.
"Where's the fun in that", said Bevis to Butthead.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/28/naomi_klein_the_real_crime_scene

 

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Now I know Billy has lost it!
It is a sad day when one quotes a phrase from the Bevis & Butthead show.

Billy you need more class like from Ren & Stimpy "You.. You... Idiot" :)

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Enjoy Life... Dan

Garden in Zone 5 South East Michigan.