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Sparta, NC

With all the rain we are having I was curious how you go about applying liquid fertilizer. I have had over 6 inches of rain this month and very few days that it wasn't raining.I don't want to add water to an already serious problem. I don't think my AG's are going to survive all this moisture. They don't look too promising.

6/18/2003 10:59:41 PM

Chico, Ca

I would try a time release granular like osmocote or some thing like that. A liquid fert ain't cut if you are that wet.

6/19/2003 9:36:27 AM

all the water will just drain away the dissolved fertilizer.

6/19/2003 12:38:43 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

And never ever ever apply nitrogen containing fertilizers to water logged soils. Very ugly things can happen when the soil has no oxygen. And that's what happens to water logged soil. All the air spaces are filled with water. Bad. Very bad.

Steve

6/19/2003 10:09:07 PM

Appalachian Mtns.

uhh..unless your soil is loose and tilled down about 20", and you've added ungodly amounts of gypsum.
Sure glad I did that.

6/19/2003 10:34:58 PM

syracuse, ny

put up a tent. if you or i didn't want to drown in the rain,
or suffer from its washing-away our houses or our belongings, we would do something to prevent it.
by moving to higher ground, or digging a drainage ditch, or
erecting a structure to deflect or divert the rain away from us. these plants need the same protection that we do.
what to feed it, how much, how often, what's wrong with my leaves??. so unless anyone really IS in a flooded area under a foot or so of the wet stuff, they PROBABLY could do something to alleviate the situation. i don't know specifically what, and it's all easy for me to say because
after about April 15th i see no more flooding in MY patch,
but i think that in most cases there IS a solution for each and every problem that we encounter. what i am suggesting is to
put up a few stakes around the plant and in the middle, and throw a piece of 6-mil plastic or other non-premeable material over it. maybe one big stake right in the middle and several pieces of twine going from it to each of four corner posts, like a circus tent. either way, if we can find a way around too much sun, not enough sun, wind, drought, cucumber beetles, squash vine borers, vine and stem splits and a thousand other little drawbacks to the world-record attempt, we can certainly think something up to minimize the 'too much rain' dillemma as well. like i said, all easy for me to say!

and very good luck to those of you that DO
have this problem....my patch is at the edge of the lawn, which is at the edge of, yeah, you guessed it: a stream.'pal

6/20/2003 5:56:56 PM