I have seen where a lot of you all bury fish remains in your garden. Tell me more about this. Placement? Tilled in? Buried with individual plants (say, under each tomatoe or pepper plant)?
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I have seen where a lot of you all bury fish remains in your garden. Tell me more about this. Placement? Tilled in? Buried with individual plants (say, under each tomatoe or pepper plant)?
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my uncle used to put his directly under his tomato plants, he usually had huge plants and tons of tomatoes. He also would bury some around his trees which he said helped. For pepper plants bury a book of matches with them, then spray with epsom salt/water mix every week or two, makes for very healthy plants.
I only know if you forget where you put said remains and dig one up accidently you will likely lose your lunch , this much I know factually :Rofl
I just dig a trench down the middle of my garden bed, put the cleanings in and cover with dirt, compost on top.
About 12-9 inches deep
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When I was doing that I would just dig hole and bury randomly in garden before tilling. Note, be sure to give some time to decompose before tilling.....lol
I quit doing it because the raccoons around here will dig them up. If I have a hot compost pile going I can put fish deep in it and they will leave it alone though.
I would like to know more about the Matches and the pepper . lol
It's a great idea,in fact, Indians use to do it. The last time I did it two wild hogs dug them up......time to replant!
That was the first fishing regulation on the books. They wanted to stop the pilgrims from burying stripers for fertalizer
Deep. My dad's small garden bed was fertilized with fish and squirrel remains. I buried them deep. I was also the one who ran the tiller and every now and again you have a little skull pop to the surface if I really buried the tiller down in there. He has really good looking dirt in that garden spot though. Very black compared to the red clay in the rest of the yard.
Do a search on the matches/Epsom salt trick, have been doing it for about 30 yrs, it makes the plants extra strong and very dark green.
I tried berrying fish remains but had skunks dig them up.
That was the end of that. :-(
You can just sprinkle some epsom salts around plant, after planting. rain will take it down into the ground. Tomatoes, peppers like it. We also put powdered milk around plants, for the calcium.
Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate, a mineral that plants like a lot. I imagine the sulfur from the matches help?? I think that helps plants up take nitrogen. The powdered milk is a good idea for the calcium. I saw somewhere, some people put a Tums under each plant. Last yr I started getting blossom end rot on green tomatoes. I put a double had full of pelleted lime around each plant. They went to blooming and producing. I also epsom salted them too. I have a friend who throws his fish in his garden and has been doing it for years.
We have used the epsom salt and crushed egg shell . Matches ? no .Quote:
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From end fo garden season till spring planting I just dig random holes they decay fairly quick but during planting season you got to be careful dig holes between tomato plants pepper plants
Dig it deep with post hole diggers. Raccoons dig them up here if you don't. Now I live on and old phosphate pit so the gators and turtles take care of them now.
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Tried fish one time. Ant city.
Best tomatoes I ever raised came from putting a crappie skeleton under each plant.
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If I ever catch any I'll try it.
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One caution with burying fish. The bones can be a problem if you dig in the dirt with you hands. Those bones stay hard and sharp for a long time. I used to bury mine in my compost pile but quit after getting stuck by bones on numerous occasions.
"gene"
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Roses love carp. And you thought they were worthless.
Very informative thread.
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Never had bone problems
If worried about the bones, you could use a blender, and chop it up some, then put in garden. You could also cut heads off, and dispose of them first.
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