Reporting on the Great Fava Versus Wilt Experiment! Some of you have been following my fava experiment, that, per John Jeavons, favas counteract the tomato Fusarium and Verticillium Wilts fungi, hoping it would work. Issues for me were lower leaves, humidity, low spots, nearby plant water needs. I religiously watered only nearby plants. But that [...]
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Tomatoes, Wilts, Fava, Coffee Grounds
Posted in Amendments, Bone Meal, Coffee Grounds, Compost, Determinate, Disease, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Heirloom, Indeterminate, Manure, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Succession, Tomato, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, VFN, Worm Castings, tagged bean, coffee grounds, compost, cucumber, determinate, disease, fava, fusarium, germinating, green manure, indeterminate, inhibited, Jeavons, resistant, seeds, spinach, straw, successive, suppression, tolerant, tomatoes, Varieties, verticillium, weed, wilt on March 4, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Getting Your Summer Garden off to a Vibrant Start and Keeping it Vibrant!
Posted in Bat - Seabird Guano, Blood Meal, Bone Meal, Chard, Compost, Disease, Eggplant, Epsom Salt, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Fish - Kelp, Lettuce, Manure, Mycorrhizae, Nonfat Powdered Milk, NPK - Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium, Pepper, Pests, Potato, Seeds, Soil, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Tomato, Worm Castings, tagged abundant, acid, bat, bigger, bloodmeal, bloom, blossom, bone meal, calcium, casting, chicken, copost, decompose, deodorized, disease, drench, earth, eggplant, end, epsom, Epsom Salt, farmer, fertilizer, filaments, fish, flower, foliar, fruit, fungi, garden, germicide, gold, granules, growth, guano, hole, hormone, humic, hydrolyzed, immune, island seed & feed, keep, kelp, lettuce, magnesium sulfate, manure, maxicrop, milk, mulch, mycelium, mycorrhizal, N, Nitrogen, nonfat, NPK, nutrient, pathogen, pepper, pest, Phosphorous, Plant, potato, powder, powdered, predators, productive, root, rot, Rumi, salt, seabird, set, shock, sidedress, Soil, solanaceae, spray, start, steer, stinky, summer, suppression, system, thicker, tomatillo, tomato, transplant, uptake, vibrant, walled, water, weed, wise, worm on March 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To start, especially tomatoes, 4 things! First, throw a big handful of bone meal in your planting hole and mix it in with your soil. Bone meal is high in Phosphorous (for blooming) and takes 6 to 8 weeks before it starts working – perfect timing! It is also high in calcium, which helps prevent blossom [...]