As always , mid - May istomato - implant time in my garden . Every class , I grow my favorites plus a few “ experimental ” varieties , and this year is turn out to be no different . I am however , trying something new in the tomato dapple . I am experiment with some differentfertilizationtechniques .
Although I always addcompostto my vegetable bed , this twelvemonth I am also add some granular and fluent organic fertilizer . I am going to try three different types to see which one brings the best results . I love to channel little experimentation in the garden to find out if all those countersign of praise on merchandise recording label are actually right .
The first three plant will be fertilized with my preferred organic granular fertilizer , ReVita Compost Plus from Ohio Earth Foods . I screw this poppycock — it ’s made primarily from dehydrated poultry manure and kelp . With a N - P - K ( nitrogen - phosphorus - potassium ) ratio of 3 - 3 - 3 it ’s a upright balance and unremarkably serves me well in the vegetable patch . I did n’t add any to the love apple bed this year , just so I can see how well this experimentation work . I will bring a cup or so around each plant ’s root word zona and puzzle out it into the soil before imbed .
The next three plants will be fertilized with a cup of my homemade fertilizer blend :
I ’ll mix these all together in bucket and then mold a cup of the mix into the grime around the three experimental love apple plants .
The third group of tomato industrial plant will get watered with Pisces photographic emulsion every three weeks throughout the growing time of year . I ’ll douse the root zona as well as the leaf for maximal nutrient absorption . I like a brand name call Multi - Bloom that ’s made from the by - products of the catfish agriculture industry in Mississippi . It does n’t smack fishy at all ( it really smells minty ) and comes in an easy - to - use hose end sprayer so I do n’t have to mess with coalesce it up .
And then my last three plant life will remain without supplemental fertilisation throughout the grow season . I know it is n’t an fantastically scientific experiment as I ’m proceed to be doing it on many different Lycopersicon esculentum varieties and I ’m only going to adjudicate my best to keep all the other factors ( water amount , sunlight exposure , et cetera ) adequate . I ’ll attempt to update you periodically throughout the season on my experimentation . I ’m hoping for some interesting — and tasty — solution !
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