most of us buy meat from the factory farm produces but do we know about the harmful sides of the factory farm meat and eggs or is there any harmful contents in it for our health?
there arent any risks to your health, but the animals themselves spend their whole lives indoors under artificial lights getting fattened up for slaughter. if your going to kill them at least let them have a decent life beforehand.
Would you like to increase your yield by 25%? Well, we know how! Fertilizers are used to improve the yield from crops. It can be applied either from the root or through the leaves. Seaweed fertilizers have been known to improve the quality and produce of your plants. Did you know by using such fertilizers, you get rich fruits and vegetables high in nutrients. How? It starts at the foundation- the root. By expanding the root system and with improved seed germination, plants get healthier and stronger. Thus they are able to combat disease and pests such as red spider mite and aphids.
Common liquid seaweed fertilizer is normally used as a foliar spray. Extracted from seaweed, this fertilizer increases the produce when seeds are soaked in it for a while. Statistics has revealed that rice, black gram and green gram harvests increased significantly after using the substance. In order to use this brand, 100ml of MBP-liquid fertilizer has to be diluted in one liter of water. It can then be sprayed onto the plants.
Granular organic seaweed fertilizer contains micronutrients such as calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, sodium and many more, which are essential for the healthy growth of plants. The presence of these micronutrients retains moisture, keeps the plants aerated and increases the formation of humas. By stimulating the root system, plants are able to breathe easily. To apply this fertilizer you can add 25 to 30 kg directly to the soil.
Dried seaweed powder is another form of seaweed fertilizer where the salt from the seaweed is removed, and then it is dried and powdered. Like in the case of organic seaweed fertilizer, this can be applied directly to the soil. Results have shown that the soil improves in quality, becomes soft and porous. By improving the enzymatic activity it increases crop productivity. You can spread about 30 kg of the powder to one acre of land and then plow it to get more value out of it.
Neptune Harvest has come out with an Organic Fish/Seaweed Blend Fertilizer, which has increased the shelf life of fruits and vegetables. After using this brand, results have shown that flowers are more fragrant and do not fade away quickly. Goji Berries Inc has created a seaweed fertilizer by extracting seaweed found in Nova Scotia in the Atlantic. It is said to possess more than sixty micronutrients perfect for growing Goji plants. It is important that seaweed is selected properly and processed under strict quality standards. If this is not done the seaweed will lack in basic nutrients and thus affect the quality of the crop.
By applying the fertilizer in a correct manner, you can expect to get better germination of seeds, healthier leaves and stems, longer period for fruition, and over all strength to combat diseases and dangerous pests. In recent years seaweed fertilizer manufacturers have been found in China, Southeast Asia, South Korea, North Korea and Japan. Today there are about ten manufacturers who sell quality fertilizers, which have brought forth good results. Therefore, you have a wide choice to choose from in order to give your plants added life.
About the Author
The author Kirk Bachelder manages a business offering Goji Berries, Goji Berry Juice and Goji Seeds for sale at http://www.gojiberries.us
Do Chemicals in Fireworks/Crackers serve as Fertilizers for Plants?
I had a doubt regarding the fireworks….
Do chemical contents of these any Fireworks/Crackers contain Nitrogen/Phosphorus /Potassium(NPK) elements/oxides which may serve Fertilizers for plants?
Is it safe to put firework chemical powder content in Plants soil?
Thanks for answers
–>And finally tell me whether it is useful or harmful to plants?
The part of fireworks that burn is the ‘gunpowder’ moiety.
Gunpowder is composed of, amongst other chemicals, Carbon and saltpetre ( Potassium Nitrate) & Sulphur. Out of these chemicals the saltpetre (Potassium Nitrate – KNO3) is the most beneficial to a garden as fertiliser, as it contains potassium and nitrogenous material.
Environmentally harmful products from sewage treatment facilities and fertilizers include __________ and _____?
Environmentally harmful products from sewage treatment facilities and fertilizers include __________ and ___________ .
A) phosphorus and nitrogen
B) sulfur dioxide and potassium
C) hydrogen and carbon
D) sodium and chloride
I believe the answer is A) and I found this site that states it in the second paragraph.
http://www.napsva.org/sludge_as_fertilizer.htm
Gardening Tips : How Do Crops Respond to Phosphorus Fertilizer?
Water and fertilizer takes forever to absorb in my lawn. What can I do about this?
It sounds as if you have a drainage issue. Whilst the absolute way to clear this would be to dig your lawn up and install a drainage system, potentially involving pipes etc, there are other things that you can do that are less drastic.
As has been mentioned, aeration done at least annually, will improve surface drainage, and you can assist this by brushing in some sharp grit into the holes that you create. These holes and grit will help improve the amount of air around your grass roots, which will leave your lawn stronger and healthier.
You could also look at drainage around the edges of your lawns, perhaps lowering the soil a little, so that there is improved run-off away from lawn – you could also help with run-off channels, that will help some of the water to soak away – obviously working with, rather than against, any natural gradients.
As a temporary solution, you could dig a trench, that would collect a lot of water, potentially removing this by pumping, or hard graft lifting out by buckets etc. I’m guessing that the water table right now is also fairly high, such that water levels may only be slightly lower than the surface. There’s little that can be done, in this case, apart from getting rid of some of the underlying water, which could be hard work, as you’re partly going against natural systems. If your lawn is situated at a a very low level, then water will continue to drain in its direction, so improved drainage is the only longer term solution.
Otherwise, mow and remove any clippings always, and clear thatch on a regular basis, as this will absorb water at surface level and keep it lying around for longer.
Prolonged programmes that aerate and add drainage material do help with improving overall drainage. It’s usually impractical to completely dig up and replace the underlying poorly draining surface, but a perfectionist may seek that as a solution, if they have plenty of time and money of course.
Hope this helps. Good luck! Rob
Site-Specific Water and Fertilizer Application by a Wireless
Have you ever thought about using organic weed control instead of using the traditional man made chemicals? If you have, you are not alone. Take a trip to your local garden store and you will find countless products for your lawn that are organic, and you will find that almost every worker there will have countless suggestions on how to use organic products on
your lawn.
However, even with this abundant amount of resources, many people are still confused as to how they can achieve a weed-free lawn using organic weed control.
These people think that the chemical products are really the only way to kill their weeds. Yes, it is true that roundup will kill everything better than just about any organic product. But is that what is needed for your lawn?
Of course, many products exist that will kill the dandelions that pop up in your yard, but does that mean that you should use the products without looking at what the organic alternatives can do. And can you possibly ignore the environmental effects, even when these negative environmental effects will actually hurt your lawn in the long run?
The fact is, chemical herbicides and weed killers are not the best products for you to use to control the weeds in your lawn. Not only are there good organic alternatives that often are cheaper, but the chemical herbicides have horrible effects on the environment and your lawn.
First, let’s talk about the effects on the environment. Look at the labels on your chemicals and check out the ingredients. Would you want to drink that stuff? If it kills everything on your lawn, what do you think it would do to your baby who drinks it?
Of course, you are not going to literally give the weed killer to your baby to drink, but what happens if that weed killer you put on your lawn soaks down into the water supply? Or what if you accidentally wash off your lawn tools on the cement and the
chemicals run down the gutter and then into the water supply.
Unfortunately, this does happen quite often and decreases the quality of water that you, I, and our children drink. Furthermore, those chemicals will harm your lawn. When many of the man made chemicals seep down into your lawn’s soil, they will kill any worms or other life that exists in its path. This is horrible for your soil, such worms and other organisms are very important for building and maintaining your soil.
So you may kill the weeds, but you will also kill your soil and eventually your lawn.
In order to prevent this from happening, and to prevent weeds from killing your lawn, I would suggest that you use organic weed control products.
Products such as corn gluten can kills weed seedling within days of application, without any of the negative side effects. Put this on before
weeds emerge and the weeds chance of survival decreases dramatically.
Spot treat your weeds with vinegar instead of using a pesticide. Vinegar will kill the weeds without negative effects (of course, it will also kill grass, so make sure you only spot treat).
The fact is that many organic products exist to help you not only maintain your lawn and kill weeds at the same time. These products will get the job done, maintain your soil quality, and not harm the environment.
I have come to know about cost effective organic farming techniques in India. Which uses……?
cow dung, cow urine, jaggery, flour, soil, neem oil (as pesticide) and water.
This technique says that each gram of cow dung has more than 500 crores of beneficial micro-organisms that make the soil more fertile. The dung generated by one cow is sufficient to produce organic manure for 30 acres. This natural fertilizer can be used for any crop.
Mulching plays a vital role in this technique. Mixed cropping and crop rotation is used to ensure replenishment of soil fertility.
In this system of farming no monetary investment on the part of farmer is required for purchase of seeds, fertilizers and plant protection chemicals from the market. The farmer can produce his own seed. More importantly, there is absolutely no place for fertilizers and plant protection chemicals in this scheme of farming. The whole philosophy behind this system is to make the farmer self-reliant by freeing him from market dispensed high cost inputs.
Are you interested in learning this technique?
By all means. Is there a link to this information.
Worm Farm: Instructions on How to Make Organic Fertilizers from a Worm Farm
Human urine makes an excellent high nitrogen liquid fertiliser for most plants. Dilute it 10 to 1 and pour it over and or round fast growing plants once a week; like vegetables, Green manure crops and sugar cane. Indeed just about anything that you want to push along rapid green growth
Studies indicate that each person’s waste fluids can provide enough nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium to grow a year’s supply of wheat and maize for that person. According to some studies, human waste can be an even more effective fertilizer than animal manure.
Urine, which comprises 90 percent of human waste, contains about 80 percent of our waste’s fertilizer value. It can be applied to field crops without treatment because it is generally sterile. By the way “fresh urine” does not contain any bacteria, unless the person has a urinary tract infection, so you could even use it to wash out wounds without causing any infections,
Human urine can be used as an alternative to chemical fertilizer to reduce pollution in air, water and soil and help avoid or control other environmental hazards which surface due to the use of chemical fertilizer, Human urine contains nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium at a much higher ratio than in commercial fertilizers and is environmentally safe to use.
If you want to use urine to fertilize your gardens, keep in mind that when urea becomes ammonia, it also becomes volatile and part of it strips into the air. Both ammonia and nitrates are also very soluble and if not picked up by plant’s root systems can enter groundwater with the irrigation water. So it would be best to keep gardens moist but not over watered, but these are similar problems faced by people who use other forms of fertilizers.
Problems urine causes
Most toilets use between 50 and 100 litres of water daily to flush away one to 1.5 litres of human excrement.
Urine is the largest contributor of nutrients to waste water, estimated as 50% of phosphorus and 80% of nitrogen.
The high level of nutrients in sewerage runoff leads to the consequent growth of algae, resulting in the lack of oxygen and the death of plants and animals on river, estuarine and sea beds.
Problems Chemical Fertilizers cause
Serious environmental hazards are often associated with the use of chemical fertilizers. In industrialized countries, for example, indiscriminate use of these substances has polluted water supplies. Dangerously high levels of chemicals have been reported in nearly one-fourth of Europe’s groundwater supplies.
Advantages of Urine Fertilizer
One advantage in using urine, as a fertilizer is that much of the urine is available in ideal chemical forms: nitrogen is in the form of urea (ammonia/ammonium which is present at concentrations of approximately 3.5 g/l), phosphorus as superphosphate and potassium as an ion. Urine is almost free from heavy metals – for example, cadmium – because even if we ingest them, they will tend to bind to the liver and kidneys, making the urine much lower in such contaminants than commercial fertilizers.
Urea outside the body quickly becomes ammonia and will be oxidized by special bacteria (called nitrifiers) into nitrates. All these ‘reactive’ nitrogen sources can be used to form amino groups for new amino acids, thus then being made into proteins. So make other steps to encourage the soil life in your garden, eg things lie mulching etc.
It helps conserve pure or town drinking water
Reduces the rate and amount of chemical fertilizer runoff into the groundwater and surrounding waterways
Reduces the amount of sewerage runoff
Reduces nutrient build-up in waterways and estuaries and oceans
Reduces your gardening costs, because of less reliance on buying chemical fertilizers.
Uses
Probably best used for non-edible plants, green manure crops and fruit orchards, though there is some usage being noted for edible crops. Apply in under fruiting plants, not onto foliage and fruits.
In a Hydroponics set-up, use it diluted, probably at a ratio of either 10- 20 to 1(water- urine), but keep a close eye on both the ph level and the level of individual salts of the mix in the nutrient storage container.
Dilute urine is also a good additive to a compost pile. Urea also helps break down lignin, accelerating the decomposition of woody materials. On the other hand, urine from somebody with a urinary tract infection or from unknown sources should probably be pasteurised or put in a long-term compost pile (of a year or longer)
before it is used on food crops.
When using a urine fertilizer in container plants, a 10:1 (water: urine) ratio can quickly burn plants in medium to small containers because of the salt and urea build-up, even at a 15:1 dilution rate is very strong for the medium to small containers. While at 20:1 you can use it more frequently (once or twice a week) with good benefits and little danger.
Unfermented urine can supposedly be sprayed as a fungicide. Indigenous people in southeastern Mexico claim that the use of urine as a fungicide was a traditional Mayan practice. However there needs to be a lot more research as to the validity or not of their claims.
While in Korea, they spray the undiluted urine as an insecticide, but again I do not know of any research to prove or disprove their claims.
So why not get out there, and help the environment by assisting in reducing the nutrient flow into the natural ground water and water ways, while saving yourself a bundle in fertilizer costs.
About the Author
The Bare Bones Gardener is a qualified Horticulturist and a qualified Disability Services Worker. He hates spending money on stuff which doesn’t live up to the promises given. So he looks for cheaper, easier, simpler or free ways of doing the same thing and then he passes these ideas on to others.
Garden Blog – http://barebonesgardening.blogspot.com/
Use Fertilizers Sparingly – Washington Waters, ours to protect, public service announcement
What is the best site to research plants for sunlight, soil, water needs,etc. I live in SF Bay area. Thanks.?
Looking for a layman’s (non-botanical terms) information regarding best choices for my garden… want to match soil, water conditions, fertilizer needs, hardiness, etc.. along with the colors.. If it is pertinent, I live in the South Bay part of san Francisco region in US.
It offers a lot of links and is devoted to gardening in the Bay area. I also like using plant catalogs for information and think the catalogs for White Flower Farm are beautiful and informative.
http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/?REF=Others
And a pleasurable way to learn about gardening in your area is to visit beautiful gardens. How about the San Francisco Botanical Garden? Their site is:
http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/
I visited San Francisco many years ago and remember it as a beautiful city. I didn’t have a chance to stop at the Botanical Garden, but nothing would keep me away from it now.
Happy Gardening!
Illinois Research Crop Does Not Require Fertilizer – America’s Heartland
