CORRECTION
after looking at my formula table, raise the cotton seed meal and ashes to 5 and leave the bone meal at 1.
cotton seed meal ---7.00% nitrogen---2.50% phosphorus---1.50%potash
bone meal----- 4.00%------------21.00%---------------.20%
ashes---------------0.00%------------1.50%-----------------7.00%
Leaching is when you have a substance or material, and water runs through it and washes out some part of the whole.
In the case of the ashes its the potash.
Remember how I told how to make manure tea?
Same thing, bag the manure in a sand bag or burlap and sit it in a bucket of water for 24 hours.
Take the bag out and you notice you have colored water. The nutrients are in the water.
Repeat two or three times and the water will not be as dark.
Then you can use the leftover manure for humus. Just work into the soil.
Leaching is how you make acorn meal. to leach the tanning out.
Bring poke salad to a boil and pour the water off, (3 times)
Don't eat poke salad after it gets big enough that the stalk and leaves stare to turn the reddish color.
You can make ink or die from the poke berries.
:)doak