Title: RECIPE #53 VARY YOUR PLANTS MENU                
Categories: Garden, Information, Fertilizer                 
  Servings:  1                                              
                                                            
           MARION HESS KDKP45B                              
           NEW 03-15-93                                     
           JERRY BAKER  AUTHOR                              
           MASTER GARDENER                                  
                                                            
  From Jerry Baker's Impatient Gardener page 206. "Vary     
  Your Plant's Menu There are more ways of feeding          
  plants today than you can shake a stick at: plant         
  pills, sticks, drops, and granules. all of these foods    
  work to some degree. However, I always s stick to the     
  greenhouse way: add food to the water. Day to day, I      
  use soluble houseplant food for all my flowering or       
  color foliage plants- even my African violets. Plants     
  like organic plant food from time to time, so I vary      
  their daily diet with fish fertilizers, liquid            
  seaweed or homemade barnyard tea (manure water). These    
  don't smell delightful but the plants love them.          
    Once a month my plants get a liberal helping of         
  Grandma Putt's homemade plant food. To one gallon of      
  good water, preferably collected rainwater or melted      
  snow, add one cup of the following formula: 1             
  tablespoon of household ammonia 1 tablespoon of baking    
  powder 1 tablespoon of saltpeter 1 tablespoon of          
  druggist sulfur 2 tablespoons of Epsom salts 1 very      
  rusty nail (or 1 Femiron tablet) 2 tablespoons liquid     
  soap 1 gallon water. Use once a month to perk up your     
  plants. For acid loving plants, add 5 tablespoons of      
  black coffee or 4 drops of white vinegar per gallon of    
  Grama Putt's recipe." The Items from 1 Tablespoon         
  ammonia to 1 gallon of water is your concentrate. You     
  add 1 cup of this concentrate to a gallon of water and    
  then feed/water your plants.                              
                                                            
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