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Whale-ista
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| Quote: | Originally posted by john68
maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but I have never seen an earthworm in Baja.
Can you buy earthworms in La Paz? |
Many nurseries sell earthworms.
It's a little like yeast: you need a starter batch of worms to get the compost going. So adding nutrients and moisture plus worms to soil will help
your garden, and over time will create more worms.
Worms exist everywhere there is enough food and moisture in the soil to support them. Healthy soil will provide what worms and gardens need.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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Whale-ista
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Flies in compost are a nuisance
ideally composting should be done in a sealed container that keeps flies out.
Flies can become a nuisance if not controlled. They can also throw the Compost out of balance and result in decomposition and bad odors instead of a
healthy environment for the worms.
Meat and animal products decompose and smell. plant and garden materials breakdown with less odors.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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Hook
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| Quote: | Originally posted by MitchMan
Anybody know a good place to get organic fertilizers in La Paz?
Home Depot doesn't have steer manure, or, what they do have seems to be more like a pulverized dry powdery compost. I found a couple of "viveros"
that have what they refer to as some form of plant food, but it would be great to find some real steer manure or chicken manure.
I've got a Mango, an Orange, and a Lime tree that need some nourishment. There is plenty of Nitrogen around, but that doesn't do that much to
promote good fruit, just good leaves. |
Sounds like you've got the nitrogen covered from many sources.
You need someone to bring you down some bags of bone meal, I'm thinking. I havent seen it in the three Home Depots or the one Lowe's I've been in,
over here in Sonora. Gotta get it in the States, I guess. 
I go with bone meal in the top three inches of my soil below nearly everything in my vege garden. About 8 inches down, I distribute some time-release
flowering granules from Lily-Miller. Not organic. It's 4-10-10, for encouraging flowers. I do this at the beginning of the season.
I think if you went with some fine bone meal in your citrus circle, you'd get more blossoms. NOWS the time, blossoms should be coming soon.
Have you tested your soil?
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wessongroup
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Some times it's good to check your soil before ya start
http://www.ncagr.gov/cyber/kidswrld/plant/soiltest.htm
Can be very beneficial in fertilizer selection along with trace elements and PH
It all helps
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Ck out the black soldier fly....
| Quote: | Originally posted by Whale-ista
ideally composting should be done in a sealed container that keeps flies out.
Flies can become a nuisance if not controlled. They can also throw the Compost out of balance and result in decomposition and bad odors instead of a
healthy environment for the worms.
Meat and animal products decompose and smell. plant and garden materials breakdown with less odors. |
Whale-ista;
You're completely correct wrt houseflies. Boy, do I hate them.
BSF are a lot different. They don't stink, they don't come inside. they don't spread disease, they don't become a nusiance.
They just make a good soil amendment out of stuff we wouldn't normally compost. Which was the point of the post.
Neil
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