As a tomato growing mad man myself .... I confirm this video to be well done with the possible exception of using spray on the plants, once they blossom, to prevent blossom rot. Tomatoes do like water on their leaves, hopefully in the form of rain .... but during dry hot droughts that we have here in SC, I'll often feed them a liquid diet of calcium to prevent blossom rot because we're below the fall line in sandy, loamy, soil that does not retain water well at all. Also, I'll use crushed cooked egg shells to fortify my sand so-to-speak. And in really hot periods I'll also shade my tomatoes .... it's not uncommon for us to have 110° killer sun days here in SC. One last thing .... if you see something sucking your tomatoes dry, with obvious bite marks .... it's the squirrels. Put a few bowls of water around your tomato plants for the tree rats so that they'll quit playing Dracula with your tomato fruit. BTW ... the best tomatoes in the country are grown here in South Carolina, especially John's Island. In the meantime, subscribed, bell rung, commented, upvoted, liked, shared ... may the algorithm gods smile favorably upon your channel.
My favorite tomato is the German Johnson type growing right here in good old North Carolina,next to the South Carolina line, making the best! Tastiest tomato sandwich with mayonnaise,❤❤
Here on the Island (BC) the Old Timers advised me that the trick to raising robust heavy yielding plants was to place a salmon head,guts or trimmings in each hole and place tomato on top. It worked wonders.
it's worth buying eggs not to eat but to feed your plants,, much better that way than stinky rotten fish,, LOL just crack an egg about 6 in under each then plant,, I've done that and it's fantastic ! every year I experiment with something different an some years,, not as good but still good,, leave the egg shell there,, will turn to useable calcium in a year for the next crop,, I haven't killed too many plants, but I've tried just to prove that that was the wrong thing to do LOL have a nice day !
It slows growth as its too much for the plant to break down and use any of the extra nutrients. It's better to put them in the ground the year before you plant on top, let the microbes break down the fish naturally, easy for the plants to absorb nutrients.
@@shac9131 yeah, blending might help. There's a experiment on here somewhere where they put different things in the holes the fish heads came last because the plant couldn't break it down fast enough to benefit it, that's tomatoes though, dunno about other plants, makes sense though. Good old home made compost and teas take some beating imo. Happy growing, hope you're harvest is plentiful!
Save Banana peels & Cut up & place in large mason jar.Fill jar with water.Wait 2 or 3 days & pour water only around plants.This supplies them with potassium,Phosphorous & Calcium.Rose bushes Really respond well to this also.
@rogeradams2536 I've placed banana peels and other food scraps in a used cranberry bottle and it fermented nicely. Did you dilute your diy fertilizer before application? If so, what ratio did you use?
Some tips that I can pass on are as follows: 1) Fish. Go fishing in the spring for Bluegills. Bury one of them beneath each tomato plant. 2) Watering. I use drip irrigation. Then, when plants need water, I can provide that with the turn of a valve and zero labor. 3) use composted manure for fertilizer. It makes your plants so much more productive.
I have a minnow pond. When I go fishing and a few minnows die in the minnow bucket by the time I get back home, I usually toss them into the hen-yard as a snack for my layers. But at planting time, I tend to bury them instead under seedlings.
Did exactly this many years ago - the fish were even bluegill. Never had much success. Family dog dug up the fish and the tomato plants and made a stinky end to the tomato-growing…..
Thanks for the great tips. Another good thing for tomato black spot is dried powdered milk, a very absorbable version of Calcium, works well. Really like your watering tip.
In the section about keeping the plants/leaves dry while watering towards the end of video, here is an easier way without having to go around burying plastic tubs in the ground and makes a good way to retain fertilizer and additives for each plant. Dig a reasonably deep hole where each plant is to be planted and throw in your fertilizer, pot ash and whatever else you think will make the plant more healthy. With the soil you have left over from the hole and back filling, make a volcano type/looking border by raking back in to the edge of the hole leaving a gap from the stem of the plant of around 1.5'/50cm, and walls of around 6"/15cm in height. It doesn't have to be exact. If you haven't got enough soil to achieve this well like structure, just dig some from between the plants. Now for watering, cut a length of ordinary garden hose about 1ft/30cm with a normal click on attachment secured. On the other end a kitchen towel or any cloth about the same size or longer(doesn't have to be exact) doubled over once or twice(this will be determined by your water pressure and you will probably will have to make adjustments along the way) and taped secularly after rapping around the end of the hose, leaving it looking like a bag attached. This will restrict the flow more evenly and stop splashing of water onto the plants. It also means you can water at any time of the day even if it is windy. You can control the flow or stop it completely by bending/crimping the hose. Just fill your little volcano right to the top with water. If you are planting your tomatoes in a row and the soil has good drainage start at one end filling each well to the top and work your way right through to the other end. Now go back and do the same thing, each well should have drained away by then. This will ensure each plant receives adequate water, they like water, but not too much. If the soil drainage is poor you can water early morning and just before sunset, twice a day in other words. Hope this was helpful to all you TGE (tomato growing enthusiasts).
This season, i had a touch of bottom blossom rott . All I did was get the old milk from my refrigerator, mix it with water, and add it to my tomato plants (problem solved )
very good & accurate video! I would recommend that gypsum be used with the bone meal & potash, to keep the Phosphate & Sulfate balanced. (Manganese & Boron) are also required for Calcium & phosphate assimilation. Calcium is required for the Auxin transport proteins, which transport Auxin into the fruit.
Your own compost, a little Epsom salts, water only the soil under the plants, pruning use concrete fence for cages, spacing, full sun, yes plant deep use your shovel to dig a wider hole to loosen the soil around your plants and have room for compost dirt mixture.
Great tips. Will try next time. Last season here was driest on record and all my tomatoes, and many other plants died - despite all watering and mulching and fertilising. YET, 3 Cherry Tomato plants, self seeded in the hot gravel of my patio, took off vigorously, 3 months AFTER Tomato season proper! Have have several punnets worth from them and are still, now mid-winter! producing fruit. Even more flowers developing despite 3 nights of frost ... Go figure! Same with Silverbeet plants. Lot's of seedlings now popping up in the gravel! I'm taking them aout and transferring to the actual veggie garden. but the free-range ones look healthier. Beginning to think should just throw a few seed packets of everything I want to grow to the wind and see what more free ranging does! 😵💫
Tums or the dollar store equivalent will help with the end rot as well. Egg shells are another big boost for calcium.Too much nitrogen also stops the plants ability to absorb calcium. Hope that helps somebody, and very nice video by the way.
Crash up some eggshells really really well maybe even in a blender or a coffee grinder and layer that in with compost so that your tomatoes don’t end up with blossom end rot.
I used bone meal and our own worm compost in their holes last year. We are first and foremost cannabis growers and I will use pour off from our organic hydroponic grow to feed them with and mulch with the cannabis trim as it is full of nutrients. Happy tomatoes growing in hellish high plains of northern New Mexico. If we can them to grow here, think a climate like Uzbekistan, I think they can grow pretty much anywhere.
Tomatoes are weeds. They will grow anywhere. I was in a car wrecking yard one day when a rain storm blew in. I jumped in a nearby wrecked car and on the back seat was a half eaten hamburger. There was a tomato plant growing out of that hamburger 18" tall. You don't need special soil. Just good weather.
Hahaha I love that story ❤ you are right, I looked under my house one day, a little leaking area under the bathroom area but,wow, a tomato plant is growing there with 4 big beautiful tomatoes on it,,but I didn’t eat them,
I use Pete, moss & organic tomato fertilizer mix it all up in the hole for plant with the dirt I Never had bigger plants in my life S E. NY. Giant tomato’s
Yes, there's not much you can do about the plants getting wet in the rain. We get really big thunderstorms here in Italy in the summer, and the plants look pretty battered afterwards, but I still seem to get a lot of tomatoes, albeit with that base-of-the-fruit decay with some varieties. The best variety that withstands the rain is the plain, round salad type. Bombproof. I blast my veggie patch all winter with ash from the wood stove so I think that the potash levels must be good. I dig deep holes and fill them with my own compost for initial planting.
For God's sake, put some water in the hole before planting. A plant going into a dry hole has an immense amount of moisture sucked out of it...get on the program!!!
For the last three years my tomato plants grow very tall with plenty of yellow blossoms, but never any tomatoes, maybe three or four tomatoes from 10 plants.😢 any suggestions ,other than to try planting something Else. Thanks for any help.❤
I found that Stevia sugar worked best for me back in the day. Here is a little trick that anyone can give a go.. Find a one litre glass jar with a lid, make a hole in the lid, and insert a 2 ft piece of hemp rope through the hole like a wick, Put two tablespoons of Stevia sugar filled with warm water into the jar, then about 4 inches back, splice the stem of lets say a watermelon vine, only do this when the watermelon is the size of baseball, Then wrap some grafting tape around the hemp rope and stem.. Change the water once every two weeks. Do this to whatever plant you like..? But don't blame me if you need a 6m ladder to get your pawpaw's the size of footballs down from your tree..🤣🤣
I indentify as a tomato and I endorse this video
As a tomato growing mad man myself .... I confirm this video to be well done with the possible exception of using spray on the plants, once they blossom, to prevent blossom rot. Tomatoes do like water on their leaves, hopefully in the form of rain .... but during dry hot droughts that we have here in SC, I'll often feed them a liquid diet of calcium to prevent blossom rot because we're below the fall line in sandy, loamy, soil that does not retain water well at all. Also, I'll use crushed cooked egg shells to fortify my sand so-to-speak. And in really hot periods I'll also shade my tomatoes .... it's not uncommon for us to have 110° killer sun days here in SC. One last thing .... if you see something sucking your tomatoes dry, with obvious bite marks .... it's the squirrels. Put a few bowls of water around your tomato plants for the tree rats so that they'll quit playing Dracula with your tomato fruit. BTW ... the best tomatoes in the country are grown here in South Carolina, especially John's Island. In the meantime, subscribed, bell rung, commented, upvoted, liked, shared ... may the algorithm gods smile favorably upon your channel.
Thanks 😊! These are a lot of good points
Arkansas and Tennessee tomatoes are the absolute best!
Gallo, I am across the line here Ga. We have that problem here to with blossom rot. I find that if I do not over water them it helps
Sorry fellas Central Valley California has the best oh so good tomatoes
My favorite tomato is the German Johnson type growing right here in good old North Carolina,next to the South Carolina line, making the best! Tastiest tomato sandwich with mayonnaise,❤❤
Here on the Island (BC) the Old Timers advised me that the trick to raising robust heavy yielding plants was to place a salmon head,guts or trimmings in each hole and place tomato on top. It worked wonders.
it's worth buying eggs not to eat but to feed your plants,, much better that way than stinky rotten fish,, LOL just crack an egg about 6 in under each then plant,, I've done that and it's fantastic ! every year I experiment with something different an some years,, not as good but still good,, leave the egg shell there,, will turn to useable calcium in a year for the next crop,, I haven't killed too many plants, but I've tried just to prove that that was the wrong thing to do LOL have a nice day !
It slows growth as its too much for the plant to break down and use any of the extra nutrients. It's better to put them in the ground the year before you plant on top, let the microbes break down the fish naturally, easy for the plants to absorb nutrients.
I did that with corn and the plants got so tall that they interfered with airplanes landing at the nearby airport.
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It could be washed away by then especially in Florida. One could always put it in a blender
@@shac9131 yeah, blending might help. There's a experiment on here somewhere where they put different things in the holes the fish heads came last because the plant couldn't break it down fast enough to benefit it, that's tomatoes though, dunno about other plants, makes sense though.
Good old home made compost and teas take some beating imo. Happy growing, hope you're harvest is plentiful!
Add 1 package of yeast and 1 teaspoon of sugar. Mix well sit for a hour in direct sun in 1 gallon of water. Pour at tomato roots very large fruit
You could get drunk on those tomatoes. Good idea.
Save Banana peels & Cut up & place in large mason jar.Fill jar with water.Wait 2 or 3 days & pour water only around plants.This supplies them with potassium,Phosphorous & Calcium.Rose bushes Really respond well to this also.
Also I’d recommend to buy organic bananas just in case there is any pesticide chemicals on the banana skin.
@rogeradams2536 I've placed banana peels and other food scraps in a used cranberry bottle and it fermented nicely. Did you dilute your diy fertilizer before application? If so, what ratio did you use?
Basil herb loves this banana water too
Some tips that I can pass on are as follows:
1) Fish. Go fishing in the spring for Bluegills. Bury one of them beneath each tomato plant.
2) Watering. I use drip irrigation. Then, when plants need water, I can provide that with the turn of a valve and zero labor.
3) use composted manure for fertilizer. It makes your plants so much more productive.
I have a minnow pond. When I go fishing and a few minnows die in the minnow bucket by the time I get back home, I usually toss them into the hen-yard as a snack for my layers. But at planting time, I tend to bury them instead under seedlings.
Did exactly this many years ago - the fish were even bluegill. Never had much success. Family dog dug up the fish and the tomato plants and made a stinky end to the tomato-growing…..
Great idea. I read years ago that when the Pilgrims arrived, the natives gave them this tip to increase their crop yield. 😊👍
Can of sardines works as well,I've done it the past 30 years
Thanks for the great tips. Another good thing for tomato black spot is dried powdered milk, a very absorbable version of Calcium, works well. Really like your watering tip.
Lime. will stop it also.
I got a bottle of blossom end spray. It actually worked.
Do you make a foliar spray with the milk powder or dilute it in water to water the plants?
Thanks. 😊
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Thank you 😊
I plant tomatoes horizontally with the top 8 inches above ground. It roots all along the buried stem. Five plants from one. Easy.
In the section about keeping the plants/leaves dry while watering towards the end of video, here is an easier way without having to go around burying plastic tubs in the ground and makes a good way to retain fertilizer and additives for each plant. Dig a reasonably deep hole where each plant is to be planted and throw in your fertilizer, pot ash and whatever else you think will make the plant more healthy. With the soil you have left over from the hole and back filling, make a volcano type/looking border by raking back in to the edge of the hole leaving a gap from the stem of the plant of around 1.5'/50cm, and walls of around 6"/15cm in height. It doesn't have to be exact. If you haven't got enough soil to achieve this well like structure, just dig some from between the plants. Now for watering, cut a length of ordinary garden hose about 1ft/30cm with a normal click on attachment secured. On the other end a kitchen towel or any cloth about the same size or longer(doesn't have to be exact) doubled over once or twice(this will be determined by your water pressure and you will probably will have to make adjustments along the way) and taped secularly after rapping around the end of the hose, leaving it looking like a bag attached. This will restrict the flow more evenly and stop splashing of water onto the plants. It also means you can water at any time of the day even if it is windy. You can control the flow or stop it completely by bending/crimping the hose. Just fill your little volcano right to the top with water. If you are planting your tomatoes in a row and the soil has good drainage start at one end filling each well to the top and work your way right through to the other end. Now go back and do the same thing, each well should have drained away by then. This will ensure each plant receives adequate water, they like water, but not too much. If the soil drainage is poor you can water early morning and just before sunset, twice a day in other words. Hope this was helpful to all you TGE (tomato growing enthusiasts).
Very good suggestion.Thanks.
This season, i had a touch of bottom blossom rott . All I did was get the old milk from my refrigerator, mix it with water, and add it to my tomato plants (problem solved )
I love the cup watering idea thank❤you.
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In southern Florida I use worm tea. Also add bone meal to soil.
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I like the way you have sown and explained practically.
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I love it you say put a third in the ground and then the next video part you’re sticking them straight in what’s up
The cup watering that's nice 👍
Excellent video, couple of things I already do but lots of good info I didn’t have, well done.
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very good & accurate video! I would recommend that gypsum be used with the bone meal & potash, to keep the Phosphate & Sulfate balanced. (Manganese & Boron) are also required for Calcium & phosphate assimilation. Calcium is required for the Auxin transport proteins, which transport Auxin into the fruit.
Great information, not a lot of cornball talk , just facts and no music in background, thank You
Your own compost, a little Epsom salts, water only the soil under the plants, pruning use concrete fence for cages, spacing, full sun, yes plant deep use your shovel to dig a wider hole to loosen the soil around your plants and have room for compost dirt mixture.
I Use concrete fence also & use my compost,plus wood ash
Beautiful sharing have a good day ❤❤❤
Thanks for sharing. I just subscribed!
Awesome tips 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤❤
Good advice . Thanks .
Great tips. Will try next time. Last season here was driest on record and all my tomatoes, and many other plants died - despite all watering and mulching and fertilising. YET, 3 Cherry Tomato plants, self seeded in the hot gravel of my patio, took off vigorously, 3 months AFTER Tomato season proper! Have have several punnets worth from them and are still, now mid-winter! producing fruit. Even more flowers developing despite 3 nights of frost ... Go figure! Same with Silverbeet plants. Lot's of seedlings now popping up in the gravel! I'm taking them aout and transferring to the actual veggie garden. but the free-range ones look healthier. Beginning to think should just throw a few seed packets of everything I want to grow to the wind and see what more free ranging does! 😵💫
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Thanks for ideas
Banana peels cucumber peels and potato Peels blended with water into a soup works great.
If you just plant your potato peels, you may also get......POTATOES!
Thanks for these great tips !
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Very informative thanks
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Tums or the dollar store equivalent will help with the end rot as well. Egg shells are another big boost for calcium.Too much nitrogen also stops the plants ability to absorb calcium. Hope that helps somebody, and very nice video by the way.
For calcium and nitrogen, I mix finely ground eggshells to the soil of the tomato beds.
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Great tips, thanks
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What’s he like at growing tomatoes?
I use Epsom salts when I plant 🌿 all of the plants. Fruits veggies, even trees and shrubs.
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Thanks for the info
Love this, thank you.
Thank you for sharing tips enjoy planting
Good morning Sir and thanks for all the info about the tomato plants.Thanks once a gain.Charlie from Namibia in Africa.
Are you still under colonizers rules? Use his name,not Sir he's not yr master.
Crash up some eggshells really really well maybe even in a blender or a coffee grinder and layer that in with compost so that your tomatoes don’t end up with blossom end rot.
Thank you for the info. You have a new subscriber.
Very informative
Watching and this informative I will try this . Am new in your channel just ❤❤
That's great 😊
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I suggest adding some epsom salts to the mixture. Magnesium is necessary for the plant (and us) to uptake calcium.
Thanks for the video.
Please how could we control Pests/Parasites in the farm Organically? Thanks
Tomatoes like the soil very warm, multivitamins that have expired don't throw them away crush them up and in water and use it on your plants
good job
I used bone meal and our own worm compost in their holes last year. We are first and foremost cannabis growers and I will use pour off from our organic hydroponic grow to feed them with and mulch with the cannabis trim as it is full of nutrients. Happy tomatoes growing in hellish high plains of northern New Mexico. If we can them to grow here, think a climate like Uzbekistan, I think they can grow pretty much anywhere.
Very important
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Tomatoes are weeds. They will grow anywhere. I was in a car wrecking yard one day when a rain storm blew in. I jumped in a nearby wrecked car and on the back seat was a half eaten hamburger. There was a tomato plant growing out of that hamburger 18" tall. You don't need special soil. Just good weather.
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Ok Jimmy.
Hahaha I love that story ❤ you are right, I looked under my house one day, a little leaking area under the bathroom area but,wow, a tomato plant is growing there with 4 big beautiful tomatoes on it,,but I didn’t eat them,
Haha, interesting story
Aye just facts thank's
Thank you, don’t worry about the know if alls
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Great information, new subscriber here
Great video mate. Thanks for sharing😮😅😊🎉
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helpful!
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You make farm life look so fulfilling and peaceful
What are those stuffs mixed n added to the hole
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Good Thursday morning, I saw your video and just had to take a look. Awesome, I have just subscribed to stay connected.
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It is minus 17 degrees in Cleveland Ohio today and this video appears.
Adding a crushed eggshell to the hole when planting tomatoes also gives them needed calcium.
I add a can of sardines in water after I dig the hole. U will have some very healthy plants!
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When you plant tomatoes you need to put them in a different spot each year they will deplete the soil. But if you amend the soil that is not an issue.
I use Pete, moss & organic tomato fertilizer mix it all up in the hole for plant with the dirt
I Never had bigger plants in my life S E. NY. Giant tomato’s
i dont recommend sugar. total ant infestation.. from experience
Thank you.!
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Superbe vidéo bravo 😊
A bientôt
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Yes, there's not much you can do about the plants getting wet in the rain. We get really big thunderstorms here in Italy in the summer, and the plants look pretty battered afterwards, but I still seem to get a lot of tomatoes, albeit with that base-of-the-fruit decay with some varieties. The best variety that withstands the rain is the plain, round salad type. Bombproof. I blast my veggie patch all winter with ash from the wood stove so I think that the potash levels must be good. I dig deep holes and fill them with my own compost for initial planting.
0:35 good info
Nice
Just put a littke compost in yhr ground where you plant the seedling.
Many times there is plenty of calcium in the soil but you need magnesium to release it to the plant. Add a fistful of epsom salts once in a while!
For God's sake, put some water in the hole before planting. A plant going into a dry hole has an immense amount of moisture sucked out of it...get on the program!!!
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One can clearly see how those tomatoes struggle. I mean they are just loaded with fruit…. Wiseass.
😂😂😂😂😂.
I GREW IN THE FARM.SINCE I WAS SML,WE ARE PLANTING TOMATO.
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Like you .....ha ha drink water with brooklax ...G'day from 🇦🇺 🪃 🇦🇺 @@abcabc-gx3le
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Wow, That was Great & Amazing!.. New friend watching from Philippines
Will hydrated lime work to prevent blossom end rot? How about egg shells, raw or roasted?
Best tomatoe vid ever 🍎🇨🇦
Interesting
For the last three years my tomato plants grow very tall with plenty of yellow blossoms, but never any tomatoes, maybe three or four tomatoes from 10 plants.😢 any suggestions ,other than to try planting something Else. Thanks for any help.❤
Mine are kinda rough on top can i crop on top?
What powder do you add?
I add wood ash or bone meal
What flavor of Tums did you use?
En el minuto 1:37 está poniendo ceniza y bon meal?
Cenisa Baja el PH en la Tierra. Bone meal da calcium.
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Check soil acid levels before adding anything. Good fertilizer will do also.
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Can we use coal ash instead of wood ash or both of is the same ?
Yes
I found that Stevia sugar worked best for me back in the day. Here is a little trick that anyone can give a go.. Find a one litre glass jar with a lid, make a hole in the lid, and insert a 2 ft piece of hemp rope through the hole like a wick, Put two tablespoons of Stevia sugar filled with warm water into the jar, then about 4 inches back, splice the stem of lets say a watermelon vine, only do this when the watermelon is the size of baseball, Then wrap some grafting tape around the hemp rope and stem.. Change the water once every two weeks. Do this to whatever plant you like..? But don't blame me if you need a 6m ladder to get your pawpaw's the size of footballs down from your tree..🤣🤣
Just remember when you use bone or wood ash it makes the soil more alkaline so you need to bring the ph down with an acid.
El bon meal es orgánico lo hace,como se hace ? Y el otro polvo que parece ceniza.
We use gypsum and more than a spoon full. We do about 70 plants a year. I start them from seed.
Agricultural Gypsum NOT drywall.
@@Yooperbuzz well that's common sense.
@@michaelwatson7298 You would think that but these days I find common sense missing in a whole lot of people.
@@Yooperbuzz Like Democrats for example.
@@somerskye2750 And don't forget Republicans and Independents. Not having much common sense is pretty universal these days.
Would charcoal grill Ash be bad on your tomato plants?
no, if they are sprayed with toxic chemicals, charcoal sometimes sprayed so they can burn fast
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Gravel protects the soil from drying out so fast.
I keep the eggshells then I put them in the oven for 30 minutes then I grain until dust then I use it for my plants as a calcium resource.
Crushed eggshells are also good deterent for snails & slugs
@RoseBornagain
Why do you need to put them in the oven? Why can’t you just grind and put on the plant?