[Former MSM Viewer]

I am 90% done with tomatoes this year. I have a few stragglers still producing but the plants are 6’ to 8’ tall and have stopped setting.

I planted early and harvested 124 lbs from 80 sq ft, 1.5 lbs per sq ft of garden. Made lots of spaghetti sauce and new friends, as well..

Cherokee Purple and Sunny Boy were best producers and best tasters as well...

I used blackstrap molasses and epsom salt this year along with compost tea. I also used only rainwater...did not see a single hornworm this year. Along with providing nutrition and building the soil, blackstrap is supposed to inhibit pests, even ants...

There is good info on molasses here:

http://www.ehow.com/info_7976252_organic-fertilizer-molasses.html

[Marcella]

You are a master grower. I admire people like you.

[JRandomFreeper]

I use molasses and seaweed spray on my tomatoes as well, and I haven't seen any hornworms on them.

The hornworms flock to the tobacco. So twice a day, I go out and hand kill every little hornworm that I can find. At this point, the ones I'm killing are ittsy bittsy little critters that have just hatched out, and no bigger around than a .5mm pencil lead.

/johnny

[greeneyes]

I grew Cherokee Purple last year- they were really good. Thanks for the info and the link. Always glad to learn about or be reminded of such useful methods.

[tflabo]

I used blackstrap molasses and epsom salt this year along with compost tea. I also used only rainwater..

Ditto--also I took /johnny's advice and added some seaweed liquid and a little homemade fish emulsion adding all to brew in the sun as the compost tea. Its a little stinky but the plants seem to love it except the chives. They no likey and go bye bye. I'm almost tempted to drink the stuff myself, eehheheheh. Just kidding.