Well, corn gluten was discovered some years ago as having some, what would in the world be called pre-emergent.

It impacts seed development and it seems to do that by absorbing or keeping the moisture away from a young

seedling. So the seedling sprouts and then it basically dehydrates because the corn gluten absorbs moisture better away from it.

The good news about how that is one of its attributes and is also an excellent fertilizer because it also feeds the

soil in a very nice way. It seems to have a very strong component to developing a microbial,

particularly a bacterial type microbial population, which sends to really help we think what I'll call grass type plants.

So things, everything like lettuce and corn and things like that in your garden

could really benefit from that so you kind of get this dual action I love the idea of

putting of thinking it a little bit more as a fertilizer first, but then using it when some

weed suppression might be great.

So putting it around new plantings and anytime you put anything in the ground putting some corn gluten

around it because you get a little weed suppression and you'll also get this nice slow nitrogen

feeding for a new plant so it kind of has a kind of a dual punch that I think is really kind of nice.

So if we're going to use it, let's say I'm a new gardener, I want to use some corn gluten it it makes sense to put it in after the things I actually want to sprout has sprouted right?

Yes you definitely want to do that I commented in corn about the time corn's about four inches tall.

Now I think for other plants that are,

you don't have to be quite that tall,

but I think that's a good safe time so on lettuce isn't going to get

you don't need to wait that long but certainly corn that would be a good a good marker

okay got it and then I would spread it and I would sprinkle it liberally, you know, it doesn't have to be yellow. I mean the ground doesn't, you know, but it fairly liberally and it'll have some impact on the weeds and then it'll, you know, as they said, and then it also provides this nice fertilizer and hopefully then that crop gets tall enough in the time the gluten's gone, that then it has some weed suppression from shade.

So you get kind of that's... Right so it's kind of a nice people have pigeonhole

corn gluten as a only to be used on

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