What are the best organic tonics for growing tomatoes?
Posted on 2008 under growing organic | 4 Comments1 Oct
First : your plants must be put in a hole, big like 2 tennis balls full of home-compost – Cost = zero
Second : water-canned very often – Cost = zero
Third : "pruned" very often mainly in the development phase
the bottom of the unique central trunk must be
without any branch
All the leaves and branches that you cut are spread
at the bottom of the plants – Cost = zero
Fourth : nettles – harvest them – about big like two or three
buckets – then let them get rotten in a barrel with
some water – when it stinks it's good – cost=zero
Then pour some of the "nettle-juice" at tje bottom
of the tomato plants
Fifth : find copper wire – the kind you find after electricians
re-cable – cut it in one inch pieces
Pierce the bottom of the central branch with one
piece of copper-wire – cost =zero
Great gardenning is a good job for greedy people -
by Matt, on October 1 2008 @ 8:59 am
The most common are usually guano teas. You can find powdered guano mixes at higher end gardening stores. You generally put them in something like a tea bag (cheesecloth, something like that usually works best). Then, you steep it in water, just like making tea. You don't have to use hot water, though. Then, you simply apply the tea to your plants.
Some places sell concentrated guano teas where all you have to do is dilute the solution with some water and you're ready to go.
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by luanawheeler@sbcglobal.net, on October 1 2008 @ 9:40 am
I just give my tomatoes a dose of Miracle gro for tomatoes about once a month. I generally over fertilize and end up with huge green plants and very few tomatoes so, I read somewhere that the more leaves you have, the less tomatoes you will have. It suggested trimming all of the leaves on all of the branches back to the end three. I did this and you wouldn't believe the amount of tomatoes I have. It is like in the pictures from master Gardner's!! It is a job and I keep a pair of scissors handy and have to trim them all the time to keep the leaves down. I was worried about sunburn, but even with 100 degree temps. here, no sunburn yet. This article mentioned that you only need a few leaves for photosynthesis to take place and the most important factor was air ventilation. I will continue to do this every year!! I also add a vitamin pill, calcium pill and 1/4 cup sugar in the hole before I plant the tomatoes. I plant a 8" plant so only about 3" is above ground. Works every time. Water sparingly or you will just get trees with no fruit. Plants reproduce themselves when they think they are going to die.
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by La Vie Boheme, on October 1 2008 @ 10:18 am
Compost or compost tea
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by stephane m is back, on October 1 2008 @ 10:43 am
First : your plants must be put in a hole, big like 2 tennis balls full of home-compost – Cost = zero
Second : water-canned very often – Cost = zero
Third : "pruned" very often mainly in the development phase
the bottom of the unique central trunk must be
without any branch
All the leaves and branches that you cut are spread
at the bottom of the plants – Cost = zero
Fourth : nettles – harvest them – about big like two or three
buckets – then let them get rotten in a barrel with
some water – when it stinks it's good – cost=zero
Then pour some of the "nettle-juice" at tje bottom
of the tomato plants
Fifth : find copper wire – the kind you find after electricians
re-cable – cut it in one inch pieces
Pierce the bottom of the central branch with one
piece of copper-wire – cost =zero
Great gardenning is a good job for greedy people -
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