I agree with Diana. Videos are the best.
Also concur with dried milk suggestion and I will add Liquid Kelp fertilizer.
All of my plants of every type LOVE that stuff.
I mix up about 4 tablespoons with a gallon of water. Put a splash on the ground at each plant about 1x week at transplant time and beyond...along as I am trying to promote green growth.
My tomatoes and peppers, notorious for not growing well or fast here in the PNW, would grow 25-40% larger in the 36 hours after giving the plants this fertilizer.
When I had to go through these plants every other week when they were mature and hack out 60% of the vines and branches they were growing so much.
When you are trying to get fruit set I stopped giving the kelp to them.
As an example...my neighbor and I both have South facing gardens and planted tomato plants at the same time.
I had some Black Krim plants and Sweet 100 cherry tom plants that I transplanted into raised beds 18 inches deep and later I had to chop a foot off of the top of each plant when they were reaching 7 feet high. My bamboo poles I staked them to were not tall enough to let them get tha high
Thank you again, everybody, for the feedback, links, history, etc.
Looking over the videos on Google, I found what has to be the easiest possible way to do this and I’m going to give it a try; namely, just bury a slice of organic/heirloom tomato in a pot, give it a little water everyday and, bingo, the little seeds start to grow... Just to see how long I can keep it alive.
Probably not long since I’ve got the worst black thumb in history, lol.
Interesting ping list you’ve got going here, Diana. Please, kindly add me to it, thx!
I’m thinking of putting my krim and black cherry tomatoes on a triangular trellis next year cuz they get so huge. Let them grow and then just flop them over the bar.