baymule
Garden Master
Last year my beans and corn were streaked with yellow. I put Ironite on them and they greened right up. @majorcatfish followed what I did, then found out that Ironite was some sort of leftover waste from a manufacturing process. ![:\](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/side.png "side :\")
So I gave it some thought, we are on sugar sand, pure sand without a lot of plant type nutrition that makes vegetables grow. All around us is red dirt, chocked full of iron ore type rocks. I had read that the dirt is red from the broken down iron particles. Hmmmmm....... So I figured that what I needed was some red dirt. We found a likely spot and got a bucket full of red dirt. I sprinkled it over the corn and the beans. Since corn is a heavy feeder and needs nitrogen, I put some chicken poo in a bucket and filled with water. I let it soak over night. I poured my water sprinkler can about a fourth full and topped with water. I poured it down the corn row, refilling as necessary. Then it rained 2 inches and soaked it good.
The corn has perked right up and is looking greener already. Whether it is the red dirt or the chicken poo tea or both, I don't know, but it looks like it is working. The beans got the red dirt only. The butterbeans are looking better, the Thai long beans are still a little yellow looking, maybe they need more red dirt.
I also gave the tomatoes and squash chicken poo tea. Most of the tomatoes are growing well, some are not. Maybe they just need some chicken butt juice.
We'll see how it goes.
So I gave it some thought, we are on sugar sand, pure sand without a lot of plant type nutrition that makes vegetables grow. All around us is red dirt, chocked full of iron ore type rocks. I had read that the dirt is red from the broken down iron particles. Hmmmmm....... So I figured that what I needed was some red dirt. We found a likely spot and got a bucket full of red dirt. I sprinkled it over the corn and the beans. Since corn is a heavy feeder and needs nitrogen, I put some chicken poo in a bucket and filled with water. I let it soak over night. I poured my water sprinkler can about a fourth full and topped with water. I poured it down the corn row, refilling as necessary. Then it rained 2 inches and soaked it good.
The corn has perked right up and is looking greener already. Whether it is the red dirt or the chicken poo tea or both, I don't know, but it looks like it is working. The beans got the red dirt only. The butterbeans are looking better, the Thai long beans are still a little yellow looking, maybe they need more red dirt.
I also gave the tomatoes and squash chicken poo tea. Most of the tomatoes are growing well, some are not. Maybe they just need some chicken butt juice.
We'll see how it goes.
There is LOTS of red dirt all around us. Really, I am glad we aren't on the red dirt-every white animal I see that lives on red dirt has an orangish cast to it. I have a pure white horse and I didn't want him to turn that rusty orange color.
