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I was wondering if milk is good for your plants.If it is please reply.pumpkinhead

4/3/2001 4:06:52 PM

Buffalo, Minnesota

pumpkin head, i once had a school ag teacher a couple years ago whpo told me to try this and that it works, well i tried it and it really did not seem to doa a whole lot, theirs like 80% water in milk? so go figure, its gonna make it grow some, i also tried injecting miracle grow into the pumpkin vines with a seringe, wow is that ever cool you can see the leaf stalks fill right up to blue,lol that seems to work, but it is prabably hard on the plant as you are poking allot of holes in it , and it is allot of work. ~Bill

4/3/2001 11:39:22 PM

walton n.y.

as bill said milk is water based so pumpkins use alot of water and there are some trace elements good for the plant but you can end up with more problems from the milk souring than good comes from it my 2 cents

4/4/2001 8:32:57 PM

Deer Park WA

I tell all the kids in the neighborhood that i feed my pumpkins milk, and that if they drink milk they will grow up as big, and strong as my Jack-O-Lanterns... I had 379 Trick or treaters last year!!!

4/5/2001 1:24:59 AM

Buffalo, Minnesota

Also im not shure if i mentioned above, but milk has allot of fat in it which in turn is not good for your soil, it will poison it, well actually i think it is just that the fat in the milk will take forver to decompose. ~Bill

4/5/2001 1:45:29 AM

Los Alamos NM

I never used milk before Milk does have a lot of nutrients that you would think are good for plants but they are not in a form that plants can use. If I am wrong please correct me. I would like to know if any one has proven if it's good or bad. GADS did you really feed the pumpkins milk or did you just say that you did? Milk also is alkaline
Michael

4/5/2001 7:43:44 PM

Modesto, CA

To respond on what Bill had said, I drink non fat milk only. What if you were to use non fat milk instead?

4/5/2001 9:18:07 PM

Deer Park WA

Ebby, No I would never feed my pumpkins any dairy product, they get all their calcium from Gypsum. I just like to tease all the kids who ask my how they get so big and propigate the old wives tales. I did try injecting milk into a pumpkin once many years ago and all it did was quickly rot... I also tried pouring milk on a main stump once as well, and all it did was start to stink, and attract undesirable critters... It is probably best to stick with proven horticultral practices. However if you do not experiment you will never know.

4/5/2001 10:35:53 PM

walton n.y.

calcium nitrate can be used as well a niebor was pouring milk on his pumpkin plant after a week or so critters dug up the plant eating all the bugs the rotting milk attracted for trace minerals try ironite or azomite on the 10-10-10 fertilizer i get from our local farm store the label says it contains quite a few trace minerals where the higher n-p-k fertilizers have few or no trace minerals

4/7/2001 8:21:05 AM

Me

what is something that is thought to be a good fertilizer even if it hasnt been proven.

11/14/2002 5:49:12 PM