Fish Carcasses

Hey guys, I haven't had time to fish and am in need of some fish carcasses for my garden. If anyone in the Orlando area, preferably north Orlando, is willing to save their fish carcasses for me I would gladly pay you a reasonable amount for them or trade something if you prefer. I need a couple hundred so if you have the storage to freeze a bunch of them for bulk pick up that would be great but if you're close enough I could pick up every couple of days if need be. I know there are a bunch of snowbirds who fish daily and keep a fair amount of fish so I will make it worth your while. Here's a pic of what needs them....they're about to go in some sandy ground.

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Interesting. Great idea but I'd be afraid the possums and Raccoons would dig them up. I'll see what I can do for you, but my limit is usually one Crappie so it might take a while.

Even though I have a couple acres I've done most of my gardening in containers because my sunniest areas are my driveway and back porch. One or two speck carcasses are perfect for each tomato, pepper, broccoli, etc. plant in a 3-5 gallon container. I'm about to take some trees out and open up an area and start growing in the ground but the principal is the same. Fish make great fertilizer.

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The coyotes love them and usually get them the first night.

slab can get you 1 aday

How do you control the white fly that spreads this virus.
They have really been a problem last couple years and really affect yield and fruit size. What variety do you use?
Joe

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Originally Posted by Billbob

slab can get you 1 aday

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If you bury the fish 2 feet down you shouldnt havr a problem with anything digging it up. I did it this year and my plants are doing great. But I put my tomato plants in 8" pots and let them get about 2 ft tall (including the height of the container) before i transferred them to the ground. Then i dug a 2 ft deep hole then put in 5 fresh caught pin fish (3-5 inches long each... the whole fish), egg shells, shrimp shells that we had saved, an aspirin, and then put 2-3 inches of soil on top of that then the plants. Mine are doing great and nothing dug them up. And trust me we have raccons and possums that get into our other stuff regularly.

The picture below shows one of the plants after planting. The white stuff is the crushed seashell that is our soil... lol. Any dark soil you see is what I filled in around the plant. We live on land made from dredging the intercoastal waterway.

More recent picture. Dont know if you can see it but the plants are loaded with tomatoes.


Also a view of how close these are to the salt water. Oops photo posted sideways.

Ginny

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Originally Posted by Joe

How do you control the white fly that spreads this virus.
They have really been a problem last couple years and really affect yield and fruit size. What variety do you use?
Joe

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We use sticky yellow fly traps. Controls whiteflies thrips leaf miners and lots of others.

I control bugs by doing most of my growing during the winter, you just have to be able to protect your plants if we get a freeze. Growing in containers helps with that as I can just bring them in the garage but a lot of years it isn't necessary.