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Planted about 7 white crappie carcasses, 1 green sunfish carcass and the leftovers of a catfish in my garden around my broccoli, cucumbers, roses and a few perennials. I'll keep folks posted on how things go. Anyone had any experience with this?
Using crappie to grow cucumber and broccoli is a terrible waste of fish. Now if it were tomatoes and watermelon it might be worthwhile. I had a friend who did something similar with some small bream several years ago, with good effect.
I know, right! Made a slurry by rinsing bucket. Gave that to the tomatoes. Hopefully they pop nicely. I have a couple stunted rose bushes, too. I'm hoping this gives them a good boost.Quote:
Originally Posted by Uncle Jesse
Where I live that would be highly unlawful, waste of game fish. Use suckers or carp instead.
Many years ago I was playing in the garden and got "stung" by something sharp. I had to go to the Doc for treatment. It seems that pops had taken the carcasses of some bullheads and threw them in the garden and I got nailed by one of the "horns" several months later. While I doubt that would ever happen again who knows?
Tim
I had not thought of that. I will definitely review the regs on that one. Thanks for the heads up, DG.Quote:
Originally Posted by DG
Just reviewed the regs, and I broke the law unknowingly on one thing. I snagged the small cat in the tail. Didn't know I couldn't keep it. Lesson learned! No regs on use of possessed fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by DG
I fillet my pan fish and put the guts in the garden or the compost pile. I thinks that it helps.
Nitrogen source to go with all the carbon that comes from plants on the compost pile.
Rick
I threw a bunch of abalone guts in the ground....make sure you don't dig there again for a LOOOOONNNG time! Whew....that's a SMELL!!
Wow. You're gonna grow a lot of Cichlids......and maybe some Sea Cucumbers....:D
My grand dad used to save all the innards, heads and waste matter after cleaning any fish he and my dad caught and they went into his garden as fertilzer. He'd plant a little bit in the rows of corn and use more in various parts of his garden. It worked great and he did this for many years. Couldn't wait for the garden to mature and shuck some corn; but, he said the best way is to get the corn into a pot of boiling water within 20 minutes of picking it to avoid the starch in it turning to sugar. Don't know if that's true or not but his corn was always top notch.
Asian Carp are great for the garden and vegetable patch...
Just chop them up, using the Kichen Blender when the wife is not home...
When the Pilgrims came to the New World, a Local Native Americans showed the Pilgrims how to enrich the soil using fish for their crops...
Interesting enough that particular Native American (Tisquantum aka "Squanto") had previously lived in Europe for seven years (both England and Italy) and had learned that trick there. The local tribe didn't do that -- although they planted corn and bean together so that the beans would enrich the soil, while at the same time using the corn stalks as bean poles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven McGarthwaite
Using fish as fertilizer was apparently standard practice in Europe, but the Pilgrims were city dwellers who knew nothing about farming. (Nor, apparently, did they question why Squanto already happened to speak English.)
There is actually a good size industry down on the gulf coast that converts menhaden to fertilizer and other products.
It's been 2 weeks. Just wondering if any of the fish have sprouted yet. Jim