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27-Dec-2001
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Pet food
I have wodered about using car food or small size dog food as an organic fertilizer when making up my soil mixes. Any comment?
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Re: Pet food
I've seen some rotting fish guts left on top of some very expensive bonsai at TOJU-en. In Japan It was bound up in a nylon stocking, and from the odor, it was very clear that it was well into the process of decay.
Prepared animal food contains a high percentage of protein and fat, which the trees can't metabolize until it has been decomposed. The bone meal and ash wouldn't hurt. I'm not sure about salts. You would probably make every pet in the neighborhood happy. If not, you would get a mass of insect larvae after watering a few times, which would be really yucky.  If you still want to try this experiment, go for something that you can carry to the curb rather quickly in case it doesn't work out. Regards, Matt
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28-Dec-2001
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Re: Pet food
Dear Fred,
What kind of food do you feed your Car? I bet that was cat, am I right? You actually are very close, just the wrong pet. I have used in my organic fertilzer mix pet food many times! The pets are Rabbit and hampsters. The cheaper types of these feeds are mostly Alfalfa Meal with some times cottonseed and blood meal and a bucha vitamins and stuff. If you can get it cheap, buy it. Add it to your other ingredients of your organic cookie fertilizer mix.
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Re: Pet food
Cheese, I read that wrong. Are you talking about adding it to your soil mix?!!! No, don't wanna do that.
Maybe you were thinking of kitty litter( low fired clay particles) as a soil additive. Fred, come back and clarify, would you ?
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Re: Pet food
BN,
Are you feeding your bonsai the pellets that go in the front of the rabbit, or the ones that come out the back? :-X
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29-Dec-2001
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Re: Pet food
Yes, indeedy, it was "cat" food I was referring to, not gasoline! And, what I was referring to is the dry, pelletized sort that is not unlike rabbit pellets in size and consistency. And, I was thinking to use them as one does other organic pelletized fertilizers; either (sparingly) as part of my soil mixes or on the surface of the soil of established trees.
I've always used 10-10-10 dry fertilizer sprinkled on the soil of my bonsai every couple of weeks in the past and it seemed to work fine. I've noticed a lot of enthusism for organic fertilizers in the bonsai world and when I read the ingrediants of the dry pet foods we use, started to speculate..... Thanks for the responses |
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