Greenstar Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 Anyone come across these products before? I reckon the chips would go great over the top of coco. Also outdoors as a top dressing or mixed through mulch or the compost heap. The pellets could be gently worked into the garden to work at the root zone. Good for the lazy gardner or time poor if drenchings not your thing. Also the gorilla farmer who might need the product to hang around a bit longer. http://www.nobugs.com.au/neem-bark-chips-44ltrs-8kgs/http://www.nobugs.com.au/neem-cake-pellets-10kgs/ They also sell trees. But was reading they need tropical/subtropical climate. http://www.nobugs.com.au/neem-tree-up-to-30cm/ This place sells trees also but are currently in production. They have them grafted to cedar stock which handles southern states better they reckon. I might contact them to see when they'll be ready. http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/fruit%20pages/neem.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchybromusic Posted February 28, 2016 Report Share Posted February 28, 2016 (edited) Never seen the chips B4 , first thing that comes to my mind all the time is , is it organically grown chips would only be a top dress , mixing into soil would use up most if not all the N to break it down , if organic be well worth trying as top dress the pellets pretty much the same , is it organic , what do they use as a clumping / sticking agent to make pellets , i'd prob just stick with neem meal / cake http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Neem-fertiliser-Neem-Cake-20-Kg-fully-Organic-/151972927311?hash=item23624ad74f:g:K1EAAOSwBLlVQwdia little more easier to use in a soil mix as well as top dressing you can grow your own absolutely def a good move , interesting to see if they still produce all that a neem tree dose on diff root stock , great idea if it dose & i'll have one Edited February 28, 2016 by itchybromusic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenstar Posted February 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 thought you might chime in mate I doubt it's certified. It'd probably cost a lot more if it were and it ain't that cheap to start with. Il have a look at that link, sounds interesting. Not hard for me to drench so I reckon I'll stick with that for now until I start my own neem/weed farm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchybromusic Posted February 29, 2016 Report Share Posted February 29, 2016 yep always interested in natural things like this , can't help myself having your own would be perfect cos you'd just start making biodynamic compost with it , would be killer compost in more ways the one Yeah Neem meal/cake will give you great protection as a top dress & as a soil mix amendment & even better will give you NPK in your soil mix , worms love neem & the plants love the worms peeing & pooing in there root system love using things that have multiple benefits the prob with using non-organic inputs is you don't know what residual might be still there after processing if anywe've been told for years that some of these sprays have no residual , years later , oops , it does , + addto that you might be supplying a person who is already compromised by illness & you don't know it (or do) , at this pointin time we in Oz have no way to know the residual hasn't made it's way in to your final product , so non-organic inputs can become a gamble without knowing who , where & how of the input Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenstar Posted March 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2016 I'm getting keen on the cake I'm hearing you on the residuals mate. I bought a few bags of spent mushroom compost pre season. Added a couple to my soil before planting and left the other couple as spare. Later down the track I thought I'd read up on info about it. Turns out the mushroom industry relies heavily on pesticides to manage fungus gnats and other nasties. Not sure if I'm gonna use the other bags now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchybromusic Posted March 1, 2016 Report Share Posted March 1, 2016 I'm getting keen on the cake I'm hearing you on the residuals mate. I bought a few bags of spent mushroom compost pre season. Added a couple to my soil before planting and left the other couple as spare. Later down the track I thought I'd read up on info about it. Turns out the mushroom industry relies heavily on pesticides to manage fungus gnats and other nasties. Not sure if I'm gonna use the other bags now.Yeah lots of spraying in the mushroom growing industry & even with the organic bagged stuff , it go's though a process of killing any poss bad guys which in turn kills everything one of the reasons to use mushroom compost is the fungal life in it , well won't find that in a bag , pretty much becomesgood water retainer top dress which you could use many other things to do & get the added benefits from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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