Did you see Gayla Trail’s article about cherry tomatoes in the new summer issue of Garden Making? Gayla fertilizes her tomatoes every two weeks with sea kelp diluted in water and gets bumper crops of sweet little tomatoes. The kelp powder I just purchased (Sea Magic, from stokeseeds.com) is the aquatic plant Ascophyllum nodosum, a seaweed wild harvested from the northern … [Read more...] about Tomatoes love seaweed
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Why we feed the soil
With all my prattling on about saving leaves and covering every square inch of soil with them, you might wonder why I’m leaning toward obsession on this issue. Well, there are new thoughts about possibly overfeeding plants with manufactured or commercially processed fertilizers. When I look at a plant, I want to see health and vigorous growth. But sometimes I forget that plants … [Read more...] about Why we feed the soil
Grow better with plant stimulants
What gardener can resist providing a little treat to help plants grow vigorously? If you're installing new plants, growth stimulants help them to become established more quickly. Or you may want to enhance the performance of a plant already in the garden. Natural growth stimulants increase the performance of your plants without jeopardizing their health with excessive amounts … [Read more...] about Grow better with plant stimulants
