how do I get this stuff?

Home Depot and Lowes have it in the lawn care section for fertilizers. It huns about $10 for a 36lb bag.

Anyone have a picture of this Milorganite? I went to Lowes here in canada, and they've never heard of it :-(

I need it for my cannas, if you are right about it making cannas grow tall

I dont know about this stuff. I used it on both my bananas and cannas. The bananas are putting out leaves very well but getting no height at all. Got them at about a foot tall and are still the same size. The Cannas are also slowly putting out leaves but didnt really grow much either and have an awful color, losing their dark colors and look almost bleached out with green spots. I have the tropicanna cannas in the darker colors.

I, too, have GREAT luck with Milorganite for my cannas, EEs, bananas and brugmanisas. I swear by the stuff! I also water daily,

Milorganite isn't a very effective means of fertilizing Canna...or other plants, for that matter. Milorganite has an NPK ratio of 5-2-0. What does that mean?

Scoop up 1 pound of Milorganite in a cup. 5% of that cup is Nitrogen. 2% is Phosphate. That's a very low dose, especially for Canna. We're talking about 1.8 lbs of Nitrogen and .72 lb of Phosphate per 36 lb bag, and absolutely ZERO Potassium for fruiting plants.

I can't speak directly for Canna, but a 4 ft tall banana plant can consume upwards of 1 lb of Nitrogen per month during the growing season. You'd be pouring 20lbs of Milorganite on each banana plant every single month, just to maximize it's Nitrogen consumption.

I've used Milorganite before, and I like it, but not as a fertilizer. I've used it as a soil amendment here in Florida to add some form of substance to our substandard soil. Within a month or two of adding Milorganite, I'd find earthworms in beds that were severely lacking signs of life previously. For that, Milorganite earned my praises. But in terms of a worthwhile fertilizer, it's prohibitively expensive and not worth the effort.

Mike

When I have a need for Milorganite, I use what I lovingly refer to as fake Milorganite: GreenEdge. GreenEdge is made in Gainesville, Florida, is slow-release and formula is 6-2-0.

In Jacksonville, a 30-lb bag of Milorganite runs around $11.99 or $12.99. A 40-lb bag of GreenEdge runs the same price. It is sold at Home Depot, Ace, and Amazon.

I've been using it for about two years now as an amendment and supplemental grass fertilization (hate those fertilizers that start with a 36 nitrogen number!)

Carol in Jacksonville