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To: Red_Devil 232; Petronski

“18-18-21”

You’ll have really terrific looking tomato plants, LOL! There are a hundred variables in growing tomatoes. Soil. Weather. Actual RAIN, versus water from the hose. Tomato variety. The alignment of the stars, LOL!

I plant a lot of tomato plants and just let it go at that. If some fail, get diseased or are eaten by a groundhog, I’ll still have plenty.

Just buy a 20-20-20 fertilizer for half the price and get on with your life.

I feed my tomatoes Kelp or Compost Tea. They do just fine. Besides, a plant does not know the chemical make-up of what you’re feeding it. Artificial or organic is no matter to a ‘mater. ;)


223 posted on 05/31/2009 5:51:46 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Actual RAIN, versus water from the hose.

Cyborg and I are using three 32 gal. garbage pails to collect rainwater from the gutters, and I'm keen to add two more. If I have my way, not a drop of water from the mains will be used in our gardens.

I'm as green as a very green thing!

224 posted on 05/31/2009 5:54:15 PM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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