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Post by ahntjudy on Jan 15, 2019 12:26:39 GMT -5
Yeah, I was just wondering... Not many places that sell the horticultural type are nearby here...
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Post by binnylou on Jan 15, 2019 12:35:33 GMT -5
ahntjudy, I'd never heard of horticultural cornmeal. I see that it is available at amazon, Is it supposed to have special "powers"?
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Post by ahntjudy on Jan 15, 2019 15:44:51 GMT -5
Not sure binny... ;) Until "the whole gardening thing", I didn't even know about horticultural corn meal...
Some people online, I have read, have described it as having "more punch per pound" as it is the outside of the kernel as opposed to the whole thing... The regular store cornmeal contains the more starchy inner core...
I will rely on our scientists and learned ones here to explain it much better than this...
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Post by Mumsey on Jan 15, 2019 18:02:33 GMT -5
Corn gluten is made from a part of the kernel not used in corn meal and is used for organic weed control. I'm not sure if corn gluten is considered horticultural corn meal.
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Post by binnylou on Jan 15, 2019 19:16:49 GMT -5
I thought corn gluten was a by product from high fructose corn syrup production.
Back to school I go.
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Post by desertwoman on Jan 15, 2019 19:30:27 GMT -5
Doing a very quick search, they seem similar...food cornmeal has stricter storing guidelines. Also, horticultural cornmeal is courser, and is also used for livestock feed. There was some talk about also using grits for the courser meal- there's something about the coarseness that gives it the extra punch for garden purposes- didn't have time to read more deeply.
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Post by wheelgarden1 on Jan 30, 2019 21:07:33 GMT -5
Good to know about calcium tablets as a substitute for powdered milk. It used to be cheap and everywhere, but now hard to find, and expensive if you do. Will try the aspirin as well, blight is a real...blight, here.
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Post by kasey on Jan 31, 2019 14:25:31 GMT -5
Around here, corn gluten is a by product of the ethanol industry. Yes it is used for animal feed. kc
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Post by Mumsey on Feb 1, 2019 5:06:04 GMT -5
I may have to go for the calcium tablets, looked at the price of powdered milk. Yikes! I had the biggest box of it that lasted 2 years, amazing what 2 years does to prices.
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Post by reuben on Feb 24, 2019 12:50:32 GMT -5
Are instant milk and powdered milk the same thing?
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Post by binnylou on Feb 24, 2019 12:56:10 GMT -5
reuben , the product in my cupboard says "instant nonfat dry milk". I'm guessing the answer is yes. I could believe the term "powdered milk" might have come about when "commodities" were made available to those who needed help with food.
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Post by desertwoman on Feb 24, 2019 16:26:02 GMT -5
Instant milk is powdered milk but powdered milk isn't necessarily instant.
Instant milk is just that- you can drink or use it immediately, after adding water. Powdered milk needs 8 or more hours to reconstitute. It has better taste and more nutritional value.
I would guess, for gardening purposes, they could be used interchangeably
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Post by wheelgarden1 on Apr 4, 2019 16:00:36 GMT -5
Is there a easy substitute for bone meal? I often have problems obtaining it, and a bit pricey. I wonder about the sources of it, too.
And yes, Mumsey's Mix is legendary among us here.
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Post by binnylou on Apr 4, 2019 17:59:30 GMT -5
wheelgarden1, Do you have access to cooked bones and a pressure cooker or Instant Pot? Research homemade bonemeal. I did this and then ground it up in a mortar and pestle. Takes a lot of bones.
Time consuming....probably not much cost savings unless you have lots of bones to cook up. Perhaps a wintertime project, just after you finish making the seed tapes.
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Post by desertwoman on Apr 4, 2019 20:58:42 GMT -5
substitute for bone meal? Rock phosphate is a popular sub and I've heard liquid seaweed is good too.
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