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South Hill, Virginia

I treated my watermelon patch with Basamid this spring and I know it kills many many things. What I need to know now is what should I add back to my soil (bacteria, fungi, nutrients, etc) because I'm sure some of that stuff that got killed would've come in handy.

P.S. I don't have a soil test

6/10/2004 3:08:31 PM

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Do you have any ProMax? That, some Trochoderma, & a little Mycorrhizae & you're in.

P.S. Send me some soil & you will. ;o)

6/10/2004 5:49:55 PM

Atlanta, Georgia

Hey Brent!
Compost tea will add many beneficial life to your soil and some people I know here in Germany also mix regular yeast with water and add that too to their plants. I know a lady here that uses lots of yeast and wins flower competitions with it.

I agree also with the mcyo and also a bit of superthrive and seaweed so that you have all the necessary micronutrients your pumpkins will need.
Hope this helps...
Michel

6/14/2004 1:44:01 AM

Atlanta, Georgia

On the other hand you may want to wait till I grow a big one before taking any of my advice....ha ha!

6/14/2004 1:45:13 AM

Rhode Island

we used basemid once several years ago at one of our older patches
the salesman said it worked like agent orange when killing off disease and bacterial
so we put it down
tilled it in
rolled it
kept it watered for 10 days
results ---- we had more weeds the following year than ever
also had the same disease situations

for us it was a big waste of time and money

6/15/2004 9:40:08 PM