Posted by Billy on July 16, 2010, 12:48 am
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>
> >
> > > Billy wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> 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?
> > > >
> > > > In a lawn?
> > > >>
> > > >> 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.
> > > >
> > > > 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".
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> 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" :)
Thanks for the introduction to American culture, such as it is.
Now where did I put the booze?
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- Billy
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Posted by David E. Ross on July 21, 2010, 12:01 am
On 7/15/10 11:07 AM, Ohioguy wrote:
> 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.
If you merely broadcast the fertilizer, the phosphorus would be wasted.
It does not dissolve easily and thus will not leach through the soil to
reach plant roots.
Phosphorus promoted flowering and root growth. To be effective, it must
be placed where roots will find it. For details, see the first
paragraph in my garden diary entry for 28 January of this year (link in
my signature below).
--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening diary at <http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary>
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> >
> > > Billy wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> 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?
> > > >
> > > > In a lawn?
> > > >>
> > > >> 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.
> > > >
> > > > 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".
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> 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" :)