I wonder why it is that the thought of manure (chicken, cow, horse) seems much
more appealing to me as fertilizer than the thought of human hair?(which is on
my head).
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From: Jerome Rigot
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Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:56 AM
Subject: [cg] Hair as Organic Fertilizer
Hair is basically pure protein. When broken down by microorganisms, a great
deal of nitrogen is released.
Jerome
At 11:40 AM 07/10/2003, you wrote:
A while back, the Missouri Botanical Garden ran a bunch of tests on organic
fertilizers in their test plots in the display gardens. The hair won, plants
were nearly double in size. Go figure.
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From: Jim Call [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [cg] Organic Fertilizer
To All:
Recently, our CG has received a donation of organic fertilizer. Now, don't
get too excited. Right now, I have 2 huge boxes of 5,000 individually wrapped
organic fertilizer made from human hair. I know you can throw hair in your
compost pile but I never actually heard of using it as a soil amendment (going
from barber shop to soil).
I've created a special page on my site that displays 2 pics (front and
back) of one of these packets. Please review at...
http://www.casagarden.com/sow_N_grow.htm
I apologized for the large graphics on this page but I wanted you to be
able to read the packaging verbiage.
This organic fertilizer comes from a start up company here in Huntsville
Alabama. After reading some of the praising results on their website from a
nursery which tested it, I noticed that this particular individual was also
part of their "startup" team so I have to discount this particular testing.
I will begin testing some this week (planting another cycle of squash) in
our garden, but I'm not sure how this stuff can beat horse, cow or chicken
manure.
FYI- Huntville is rated in the top 10 cities in the US for "start up"
companies. Evidently, we have alot of laid off or bored engineers who come up
with these "hair brain" ideas.
Jim Call, CASA Community Garden Volunteer Director
www.casagarden.com
Jerome Rigot
Post-doctoral researcher
OSU - Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
Dept. of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
1680 Madison Avenue
Wooster, OH 44691
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