You might already know this, but if you have boiled eggs....especially hard boiled... used the water you used to boil then in to water your plants as it will have some of the nutrients in the water that you find in the egg shell. Great channel by the way x
GREAT SUGGESTION! Also, those boiled egg shells are now also sterilized & reduce the risk of salmonella (which may thrive in garden soil for up to a year). Thanks for sharing! Charles 🌱👍
When grinding and transfering egg shell wear a mask....DO NOT INHALE DUST. best analogy comes from my pulmonologist " it's like inhaling tiny razor blades".
I just barely crush my egg shells. Never pulverize them. Just mix in with the dirt in with tomatoes. Also put some around plants. Snails won't cross them as they will cut them up. About Dime size shells Double win win 🏆
"If you kill all of the bugs, above and below the soil, then you've basically just defeated the purpose of organic gardening" Amen brother! Thank you so much for saying that. So many people look at gardening as just getting the fruit off the plant but the soil is the life line and it will be around much longer than us- we need to add back to it continually and let it do it's thang!
Very well said Addictedtoelf! :-) Especially the part about "the soil is the life line." The majority of the people I teach gardening to in my community do not understand this concept-- Yet. I have 4x per year to reinforce and remind them of healthier and better gardening techniques! Great to hear from you!!! Charles :-)
We love sweet 100s, this year was the fastest fruitation ever, we cut up the 12 foot vines from last year into 1 foot sections, rooted in water within 3 days, planted and 2 weeks later we have blooms on 18 plants! If in the southwest, Texas or Cali, cover the plants with a sheet, doesn't matter if bedsheets or plastic drop cloths, or pile leaves or straw over, protect them from the frost and have tomatoes for years from the same plant, and consistent taste to your product.
I like to use my coffee grinder to pulverize the eggshells, and then let steep in boiling water for a while before using. Absolutely great video- very informative and nicely presented!!
I also use the water from Boiled eggs. My research has found that about 25% calcium goes into the water that way. Dry the shells, and pulverize them for a nice slow release to the plants.
Now I have to watch All Your Videos because you know your on top of your gift. I went to school for cultivation and I have learned several things that I didn't know or learned in school. I have a seizure disorder so I don't sleep much so I have a bit of free time THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE VIDEOS, and you will be seeing my post.
A note about the "glowing blue" color of the Miracle Grow: it has nothing to do with it being a chemical product. It is so that if you use an injector dispenser-type fertilizing system and the water coming out of the hose is clear, you are out of fertilizer in the system and need to add more to the tank. The different colors (pink, cobalt, turquoise) of the blends for different plant groups lets you know which formula is in the tank if you have excess from your last fertilizing.
Great video! The different products that you showed - loved that you pointed out the good and bad of using them. Even though I am in a different growing zone I still learned a lot from watching and wow 3 years later and people are still tuning in good job 👍
I tried to grow a Sam marzano tomatoe last season which are indoor cordon type's without much luck it flowered but it was way too late in the growing season. A quick note I use chicken manure pellets to add calcium to the compost
I blend my eggshells dry either in my high power blender or the Nutribullet without water. Then I store the powder in a jar until ready to use. I also dehydrate my banana skins and pulverize them to a powder, and stored in a jar, too.
Yup, same. When I apply to my plants, I mix them with warm castings. I also use the egg dust in combination with baking soda and diatomaceous earth in water when I spray my plants for insects.
We live in Crete, our soil is awful, clay, cloggy and difficult. We've been doing lots of organic stuff and been quite successful but your information is brilliant. Thank you lots. From a Scots couple in sunny Crete, Greece.
The best Basil I've ever grown is Thai Basil and it gives beautiful small cluster flowers and the Thai Basil is he best tasting Basil ever ! it's the only kind I grow now. Great for soups and salads and just plain eating.
Thank you for the tip CSAcitizen Feather! I'll be on the hunt to add Thai Basil to my garden.... I've been growing the same common Sweet Basil for almost 10+ years in a row... Time for some change in my garden! :-) Thanks again for the suggestion! Charles :-)
Love this channel. Epsoma also make an organic product called Tomato Tone - with 8% calcium. That totally fixed the one time a crop of heirloom tomatoes I was growing were affected by blossom end rot. FWIW.
Very interesting as always. I was pleased to share your site with my sister who lives in LA and has just started growing tomatoes again after many years. She, by the way, is also a biologist. Thanks and happy growing.
EXCELLENT video calcium is important to prevent blossom end rot on tomatoe but I've seen more blossom end rot on squash, all varieties. This advice is good for growing squash as well
Great video! A caution from my garden: I planted a passion fruit vine my first year- by the third year the vine was sending out runners within a 5 foot radius, then beyond. It took me 3 years to get rid of all the runners. Shaded a large area. The fruit didn’t taste good, and the flowers were beautiful up close, but not a flash as I’d hoped.......
I think its important to note blossom end rot is not always a lack of calcium. Occasionally it is a watering program where the calcium is not being taken up by the plant. Too much as well as too little water. Not always as simple as giving the plant some food. Thanks for the through review tho. Very helpful
Hello Mary 👋 So true- watering definitely can have an effect on nutrient uptake & plant health! I’ve got to remember to share your point in a future lesson!! Happy Gardening, Charles 🌱👍
@@IVOrganic can i ask is the time of watering important example before the sun rise or after the sunsets and if so which is better for summertime and winter time crops. how do you gauge water overuse also , grazie tanto from Australia love your schooling and thank You for shareing ...
I save my eggshells, banana peels and when the cookie sheet gets full I slow cook them to dry them out. 210 - 215 degrees. turn the oven on at night and check in the morning. when the banana skins are dried out I grind them up to a powder. sprinkle in the garden.
Cheryl, I've been doing the same as you for a couple of years and put the powdered shells, powdered banana peels, plus a couple of tablespoons of Epson salts in my tomato planting holes and the plants produce lots of fruit.
Dave Lawson $12 - 15/hour profits is enough to live. Plus you save money by growing your food, and you save also money from doctors and drugs. All in all, it's all good.
Charles, thank you very much for your desire and wisdom in showing your planting strategies. While I don't have the same type of climate here in Maine, I can use much of what you showed us. I throw so many eggs in the compost daily, and I will change my ways in this process now.
Very helpful. I learned so many things that we will do with out garden tomatoes! He was so knowledgeable and encouraging! Excited for great tomatoes this year!
I am watching this from kenya, honestly this is legit info with rich content on tomato. hail to technology, hail iv organic. Woke up at 5:55am to watch this. Zip tie diy- totally awesome same as compost. Loved you tomato harvest n tomato support for determinant tomatoes. The egg puree best hack ever..
Wow! I marvel at the maturity of your March plants. Here in Iowa, with 2 late frosts in April, my plants are just beginning to enter the growth cycle. That's the way it goes. I'll give the egg shell puree a try. Great idea. BTW, I overdid the coffee this year [200lb/100ftsq~Oct-Feb. I had to do something with it]. What they say about stunted growth looks to be true, but I'm here to tell you, the worms love it. Never seen so many before in a garden. Stunted plants this year, great soil next. I guess you can't have everything at once.
Thank you for posting..I grew up in Southern California (Anaheim Hills and Yorba Linda) back in the 70's and early 80's I would run in fields (before it was all developed and cement toll ways) of California Poppies
🍅☘🌻🌴🌷☘🌻🐶🍅 @Hi there Christine.. I am from San Diego... moved to Colorado on 1997. I still miss living near the ocean. I am planting a community garden plot for the first time this year. This video taught me so much. Have fun planting your babies.
Thanks for the tomatoe tips. I’m growing tomatoes for the first time and started my seedlings in Jan 2020. Have 30 or 40 plants in various stages up to 11 inches so am ready to start planting. With covid19 I’ve decided to grow over 888 food plants. I have 3 1/2 acres. My peas radishes carrots lettuce potatoes greens and of course flowers (edible) have emerged. I love to see my new babies sprouting forth. Thanks for your expertise. CMACshack green gardens
I live on 4 acres and have tried to grow a garden during this pandemic. Is so difficult with the deer and squirrels. I have trapped and eliminated about 30 squirrels. I have fences to keep deer out. Your irrigation must be the biggest challenge. Is for me but I use timers and drip.
@@michaelprice3785 Try using creosote keeps most animals away just create an air born smell with a few rags around the fence line do not over do it as it will kill plants and ruin soil. do not use substitute as it dose not work. irrigation is a problem but with a little thought can be overcome using shade and soil building methods new gardens can take a few years to get right. it is a good idea to find out how far below the surface the water table is and that will usually let you know if you are wasting your time trying to grow shallow rooted crops. A well is a good idea you do not need drinking water just water and that can usually be found by hand digging.
@@michaelprice3785Couldn't you fence out the Squirrels too? Maybe use netting on top, keeps out birds as well. 🤔 Also we can grow enough food for all of us on this planet; including the wild animals who are an important part of the ecosystem. Killing everything throws the balance off... It's not a good look or practice.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience and knowledge. I just received my Sweet 100 seeds. Looking forward to caring for them. Thank you for the egg shell purée so glad I can add water. I just learned French Marigolds are native to South America, African are native to North America perennial and have large varieties.
Excellent video ..! I'm feeling blessed and grateful that I spotted a few of your helpful videos tonight. I bought a 6 pack of early girl tomato plants yesterday; and wasn't 100% sure what my best solutions would be as far as organic fertilizers and pest resistant products. So this video truly helped. Thank you very much; I really appreciate your gardening common sense and wisdom.
Thanks for the videos. I grow mostly in containers, we have these big African Snails here in Hawaii. They are huge and can eat a whole kale plant in one night. What works well for my situation is copper tape, if I wrap the container with it the snails won't go there. The sealing paint you sell is great stuff, we also have a lot of wood boring insects here and it stops them cold. Thanks again, hope to see those sweet 100's when they are full of fruit.
Hello Ken Hughes, Thank you so much for the compliment! :-) As I showed in the video, SluggoPlus an effective and organic product that I would typically used around my seedlings in the garden.. but not broadcast over the entire garden to kill every bug that consumes the product. I would recommend scattering the product a few inches around each of your kale plants. Here is the link with more details about the product: www.homedepot.com/p/Monterey-1-lb-Sluggo-Plus-LG6575/202043634 I will be sure to post follow-ups to these tomatoes and I am most looking forward to the Early Girl and Sweet 100 tomatoes!!! Have a great weekend! Charles
Just did that this morning. I have my powdered shells soaking in white vinegar, then will add water and use the mixture to water my tomatoes and squash later today.
So me the hobby garden person needs to protect the world and the Gaint Farms have killers and feed the most of our population and that goes on and the world dies anyway.... Don't sell me the organic farm theriomorphic
it nice to listen to charles , He makes and sound everything simple, so that you take up the hobby of gardening. This is the only way I have found myself out in the garden then in the supermarket
I would suggest, if I may, that people only buy organic bananas if they are composting or using the peels this way. I lived in Costa Rica and know first hand how much they are sprayed with pesticides (coffee plants too ). The local waters had dead fish from the runoff. Organic bananas don't cost much more. I would give up coffee before I would drink pesticide sprayed.
Wow love the information, here in Québec, Canada it’s still snowing so I have to wait for May, hopefully we will get a beautiful warm summer. Crush egg shell will keep slugs away.
Hi Charles sorry about the delay i want to thank you very much for the in depth reply to my tomato problem B E R and blight absolute fantastic you are a real hero thanks a million i now have great satisfaction and peace of mind thanks to you Ed
Hi Charles, thank you for posting educational videos. I really enjoy learning the Biology side of gardening. I'm an Engineer so I know how valuable theory can be, thank you!
Loved the written notes to layout video. I have started a 3x4 box above my ditch culvert. Wasted space, always needs weedeating. I placed a big piece of pvc below front of box to level. I now have 2 foot tomato plants thriving. I turned an 8x8 dog kennel into my backyard garden. Cucumbers and bell peppers around the parameter with spinach and lettuce up the middle. Everything survived the 2 recent hurricanes we had in FL. I can cover the kennel for the few days of frost we get each year.
I just plant my first veggie plants today, I plant cucumber 🥒 tomatoes 🍅 chili Jalapeño 🌶 and mint. I also do my own compost. Let’s just wait to see my results.
Dear Charles, your video has enlightened me and was extremely educational. I thank you for your heartfelt sincerity to share your love to grow healthy foods. I am looking forward to watching your future takes of inspiration. All my best to you and yours;)
Excited this year because for the first time got my tomatoes going from seed. May still add a couple of store bought, but am pumped about this experiment. Have lots of shells from our duck eggs, so will grind/blend and add those as you recommend. Been an odd spring - a bit cool here - so in the hardening off stage for the seedlings now. Hope to get planted into the raised beds in a few days. Thanks for the tutorial.
If I'd of had this education 20+ years ago I may have had better success in growing vegetable. The one thing I had success with was growing lemons and mangoes from seeds. After living all our lives in the San Fernando Valley about four years ago we moved to the Inland Empire to retire. I've been looking for ways to grow stuff but the weather is so different here than in the Glendale/Burbank where we lived. Everything is so sandy and dry. I sprouted a mango seed and it's about 2 feet now. Other than that I mostly only planted various cactus plants but I miss my lemon. Meyer lemons, the best. I've tried sprouting seeds but I haven't had any luck. I just planted another batch hoping they will take. I actually tried numerous ways to no avail. After watching your video here I just might try to grow some tomatoes. I just love tomatoes.
Your videos are so amazingly informative! I feel like I'm taking a class on tomatoes, and I love it! Thank you so much, I'm so glad I found you on here!
I really thank you for taking out the time to share with me ive learned a lot to use on my garden so keep up the good work as you continue to garden your way through vegetables
I'm a very green beginner with gardening. It's way too hot here in N.TX to begin now so I'm starting to study for next year, I believe I will start with containers to see how it goes. Over the years I've heard a little about using eggshells and coffee grounds. I'm so tired of buying tasteless tomatoes at the store, so I'm going to give it a go. Thank you so much for your in-depth explanations.
You have to love this guy... Hello from Calgary Alberta. It is hard to get a crop off before frost in a 4a zone. I found a tomato at a farmers market - the cashier said it was bad but I just wanted the seeds... I have grown it for 10 or 11 years now and it will ripen before the first frost...The tomato I am growing is called a Bulgarian giant I think, it is huge and juicy... Thanks for the Video - That is all...
Hello Cliver McGyver, Thank you for the compliment!!! And so great to hear from you in Canada! :-) Have you considered growing varieties of cherry tomatoes, which can ripen even faster than some of the larger varieties of tomatoes. It appears that your growing season is between May and October. weather.com/weather/monthly/l/CAXX0054:1:CA To get a jump start on your tomato growing success, have you tried growing your tomatoes indoors about 4-6 weeks before the planting season, and then taking them outside once the last chance of frost has passed? Starting your plants too early end up growing too thin and weak "leggy" as they call it. Keep me posted on your growing success this year! Charles :-)
I do not have a lot of room - and seem to be fixated on this one brand. I have split the genetics down to a very ugly and a very round one of the same species... Watching the change over the year with just one verity is very pleasurable. Going on 11 years now. This year I will try to dissolve egg shells with vinegar and use that to control my end rot... I use CaCo3 in my stained glass work and will test it in a different location...I have 2 lights 400 watts metal halide. they are reaching the top of the 4 inch container. I start with 1 inch of soil and add soil as it is needed - as the plant gains height... I get great transplants based on height vs thickness of stock...I could talk gardening all day or at least do it... That is all...
Awesome video, I learned so much. I knew about marigolds but not the onions to protect the tomatoes. My dad would have tomato, marigold, tomato, marigold, etc. Thank you so much. 👍🏼
Wonderful video! It is one of my favorite gardening videos and so helpful as I am planting on a trellis this year. I am saving this one for sure. Thank you so much. 🌱🌿🌾🍀
I use my new Ninja to grind up some egg shells and decided to just to leave the egg shells in the pitcher and add more as I go - little did I know that the eggshells would ruin my pitcher - leaving pits all in the inside of it!! Just in case anybody else decided to do the same.
I enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for making 'em. Could you consider making a video all on watering. I'm curious as to how you manage watering everything in your garden. Thanks for the great videos and keep 'em coming.
I many times wish I didn’t live in such a cool climate (northern Alberta, Canada) when the winters are long and cold, and I see your temperatures are so high. But oh-my-goodness, I could not imagine such high temperatures in your summers. It would drive me nuts! I do like to see spring coming when it does, though, like a breath of new life!
I just grind crushed shells in a separate coffee grinder. No water necessary. We eat lots of organic, free range eggs, so I store ground shells in a plastic coffee container.
I add broken egg chunks, Tea dust, coffee dust and rice washed water.. Veg peel pastes.. Banana peels.. My NPKCA is covered naturally.. I do no really like using any packed products when we have everything handy in kitchen.. Nice video
This is my first time enjoying your RUclips channel. Great work! I’m looking forward to more great content from you. Thank you so much for this informative video! I got so much out of it. You’re a great teacher.
I bake my eggshells and use a coffee grinder to make dust. Then I add vinegar to make the calcium break down. I add a teaspoon of that mixture to a Liter of water. It also helps lower the PH of my tap water.
I would never put vinegar in anything going in my garden. I had to pressure wash my house and it had mold. I ended up using vinegar. This was two years ago and where the runoff went has been barren, not even weeds will grow there now.
Did you know you can plant parsley with you tomatoes? They’re a companion plant that helps them grow and keeps pest off . There is a lot of plants that are that way it’s the safest way to grow organic. I have a book on Companion Gardening it’s the only way I do my garden.
I made eggshell puree last year. The eggshells, while blending, scratched the surface of my Vitamix blender container - it is plastic. I was not aware that it could happen. Also, the puree - eggshells are a lot heavier then water, so. They plummet to the bottom of the container and are hard to get out.
Yes it will, I puree in my animals veggie fruit mix adding to their meats I prepare for them each day. I have a second container for my needs which is still like new, the scratched up one is for their needs, and of course garden needs as well. You might consider a second one, you can get it on Amazon.
🍅🌱🌞🍅🌻🌴🍅🐾🐶🌱 Thank you for this great, information filled garden tutorial. I feel totally confident about planting my first community garden (raised bed) plots (80 sq ft). Digging in the dirt is so therapeutic... especially during this pandemic. Stay safe.🌿🍎
A small amount of garden lime at planting prevents, and also quickly stops, blossom end rot. Lime is organic. Boron, copper, zinc etc are trace elements naturally found in soils that have not been depleted by continuous cropping of the same plant in the same garden beds (monoculture) which is done on many commercial farms. If you do grow your tomatoes in the same beds every year you will need to replace the trace elements.
Thank you , I use miracle grow for my tomatoes and I did not realize there was no calcium in it and I will go buy some so that my tomato 🍅 plants get there calcium thej need
If you have a clear plastic blender cup this will sand blast the inside of it and it will no longer be clear. This is how I ruined my Ninja blender cup.
I just grind dried egg shells with my spice grinder into a fine powder, then i just mix it into the soil before planting my tomatoes. And you can easily store the extra powder for later coz its dry.
This is nice! I crush mine in my hand and save em in a mason jar for transplants as slow release nutrients but never thought of blending em! Great idea to get my tomatoes calcium much faster, thanks! 🙏🏽
Thanks so much! Learned a lot. The IV Organics 3-in-1 Plant Guard sounds so rational. Wishing I lived where it were not QUITE so windy. (Top of a hill in Oakland with fierce winds. Working on creating breaks with walls of staked bean plants.) So far, no luck with tomatoes. May you enjoy your harvest, stay well and safe and find a bit of joy each day.
In taste tests I did 40 years ago..in same soil...tomatoes celebrity , Roma, and early girl..all tomatoes grown with heavy egg shell slurry were sweeter in blind taste tests with more than 12 people tasting. Every year I used to have a tomato testing party. I always planted 12 different tomato varieties.
I burn natural wood in my fire pit & with the ash & bits of burnt wood I add it to my tomatoes garden beds & the plants do great , It's a lot like when a forest fire happens & all the new growth comes back beautiful from the fire ash , Also I think the smell of burnt ash / bits helps keep the gritters out of the garden , This year going to try it with some of my bell peppers .
It's big brother watching you! 😊 Ever notice you can have a conversation about something you would like to buy - and up pops an ad on google for that very thing! Scary!
@@somethingintheair5373 if you read your user agreement for your phone, you'll see that they do record what you say in the background (always, not just when you're using it) and search for keywords for targeted advertising and data collection. very disturbing. look yourself up on spokeo for instance.
Go Ashley! Your tomorrow are gonna be awesome! I've been looking up lots on gardening too! Glad it suggested this one but I already unfortunately added the Miracle Gro 🤦🏾♀️😔🤷
I have a lot of shade around my house depending on the time of day also so I plant in 5 gallon buckets so that I can move my tomatoes back into the sun as the day passes.
I used to have a flat dolly, like at the garden centers, and had all my pots (or flats earlier in the spring) on the dolly so I could roll them out of the (warmer) garage in the morning and then pull them around to follow the sun.
Bad Strawberry + egg shells + avocado skins and seed + banana skin and a half teaspoon of salt is my booster shot for my garden. I freezes it and use it on my plants once a month and the roots of my plants are crazy. Not for indoor use, made a mistake at first since fruit fly love it. But outdoor are the best. I sometime buy wasted fruit from my local grocery place for cheap. I told them to keep me bad strawberry and bananas, $6 a full box of them.
It is really great to have so much info to add to ones Brain x x i love the way you point out what is on the packet which we need to know Beautiful Hot day here. x hope you are safe and well during this Horrid virus.
I heard the word eggshells for tomatoes last year..so I started saving them..then I thought put them in the blender..well now they are like powder and I have a lot..but I didnt know how much to use..so I put in about 1/3 cup. Will the tomatoe plants be ok? And you say we only need about 2 egg shells per plant with some water and pour around the plant later this summer , I just need more detail? Thank you!!
Thank you. Very informative, I really learnt a lot. I plant every year but I always have a bug problem, I live in Central Florida so another problem is the heat.
A trick that I use is to dry the egg shells in the oven (while cooking something else) and then put them in a plastic bag, crush with your hand, then use a rolling pin over it. Because they're dry, you can crush them almost into a powder.
I set the half shell upside down on a paper towel n let them dry for a day or so. Then I lightly crush them in a mason jar and then use a meat tenderizer to gently crush the shells. I've done this for OVER 40 yrs n it works great, don't need it as a powder just put a couple tablespoons of the crushed egg shells at the bottom of the hole for each plant. If you're planting from seeds, dry out the eggshell and plant the seed in it!!!! Transplant seed n shell together.
Here’s my recipe for eggshells. 3-4 doz egg shells. Bake ay 300 degrees one hr. Grind in food processor NO water! Place in a container 1 gal, add white vinegar about 32 oz and let it sit covered lightly for 2-3 weeks. The vinegar breaks down the calcium and is neutral ph of 7. Use 1-2 tb per gal ! Great info !
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Thanks for the info
You might already know this, but if you have boiled eggs....especially hard boiled... used the water you used to boil then in to water your plants as it will have some of the nutrients in the water that you find in the egg shell. Great channel by the way x
Would boiling the eggs decrease or eliminate the calcium???
@@eddiemills6222 No, because it's in the shells
@@eddiemills6222 Some dissolves into the water, then it is available for the plants to use.
GREAT SUGGESTION! Also, those boiled egg shells are now also sterilized & reduce the risk of salmonella (which may thrive in garden soil for up to a year). Thanks for sharing!
Charles 🌱👍
Great idea!
When grinding and transfering egg shell wear a mask....DO NOT INHALE DUST. best analogy comes from my pulmonologist " it's like inhaling tiny razor blades".
I'm sure it's safe when grinding in water...no dust
I just barely crush my egg shells. Never pulverize them. Just mix in with the dirt in with tomatoes. Also put some around plants. Snails won't cross them as they will cut them up. About Dime size shells
Double win win 🏆
Thank you as I have a bunch of shells
Best would probably be to pulverize most of them, but leave some just crushed in the soil, for long-term calcium, and protection against those slugs.
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"If you kill all of the bugs, above and below the soil, then you've basically just defeated the purpose of organic gardening" Amen brother! Thank you so much for saying that. So many people look at gardening as just getting the fruit off the plant but the soil is the life line and it will be around much longer than us- we need to add back to it continually and let it do it's thang!
Very well said Addictedtoelf! :-) Especially the part about "the soil is the life line." The majority of the people I teach gardening to in my community do not understand this concept-- Yet. I have 4x per year to reinforce and remind them of healthier and better gardening techniques! Great to hear from you!!!
Charles :-)
Plenty of sun throughout tomato plants lifespan.
Water 😊 not excessive especially after fruiting.
A compact, comprehensive course on tomato cultivation. Highly beneficial. Highly appreciated!
Does anybody use Epson salt and how are you preparing to feed your plants with it do you mix it with water or just throw it on the soil
We love sweet 100s, this year was the fastest fruitation ever, we cut up the 12 foot vines from last year into 1 foot sections, rooted in water within 3 days, planted and 2 weeks later we have blooms on 18 plants! If in the southwest, Texas or Cali, cover the plants with a sheet, doesn't matter if bedsheets or plastic drop cloths, or pile leaves or straw over, protect them from the frost and have tomatoes for years from the same plant, and consistent taste to your product.
Great idea. I will try this propagation method.🍅
I have ordered the seeds, looking forward to getting them.
Wow, thank you for sharing such great information.
I like to use my coffee grinder to pulverize the eggshells, and then let steep in boiling water for a while before using.
Absolutely great video- very informative and nicely presented!!
I also use the water from Boiled eggs. My research has found that about 25% calcium goes into the water that way. Dry the shells, and pulverize them for a nice slow release to the plants.
Now I have to watch All Your Videos because you know your on top of your gift. I went to school for cultivation and I have learned several things that I didn't know or learned in school. I have a seizure disorder so I don't sleep much so I have a bit of free time THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE VIDEOS, and you will be seeing my post.
A note about the "glowing blue" color of the Miracle Grow: it has nothing to do with it being a chemical product. It is so that if you use an injector dispenser-type fertilizing system and the water coming out of the hose is clear, you are out of fertilizer in the system and need to add more to the tank. The different colors (pink, cobalt, turquoise) of the blends for different plant groups lets you know which formula is in the tank if you have excess from your last fertilizing.
Great video! The different products that you showed - loved that you pointed out the good and bad of using them. Even though I am in a different growing zone I still learned a lot from watching and wow 3 years later and people are still tuning in good job 👍
I tried to grow a Sam marzano tomatoe last season which are indoor cordon type's without much luck it flowered but it was way too late in the growing season. A quick note I use chicken manure pellets to add calcium to the compost
I blend my eggshells dry either in my high power blender or the Nutribullet without water. Then I store the powder in a jar until ready to use. I also dehydrate my banana skins and pulverize them to a powder, and stored in a jar, too.
Yup, same. When I apply to my plants, I mix them with warm castings. I also use the egg dust in combination with baking soda and diatomaceous earth in water when I spray my plants for insects.
@@CATRYNA49 I tried grinding dry in my nutra bullet - no water. It caused a lot of abrasion on the plastic. Not got a sheen on it any more.
you can use the wateryou boiled the eggs in also rice water..soda
@@emmalowarance2437I don't understand what is rice water...soda help me with this 😫 please 🙏
I really like that you stitch in other videos you have into this one. It helps to show before/after and justify your gardening decisions!
This is by far the most complete video on tomatoes i've ever seen. Thank you so much!!
You should check out the MIGardener channel. He's also SUPER helpful and educational!
We live in Crete, our soil is awful, clay, cloggy and difficult. We've been doing lots of organic stuff and been quite successful but your information is brilliant. Thank you lots. From a Scots couple in sunny Crete, Greece.
try building a no dig bed over the top of it, mulching with cardboard, well rotted manure etc. watch Charles Dowding.
Grow them in 5 gallon buckets.
The best Basil I've ever grown is Thai Basil and it gives beautiful small cluster flowers and the Thai Basil is he best tasting Basil ever ! it's the only kind I grow now. Great for soups and salads and just plain eating.
Thank you for the tip CSAcitizen Feather! I'll be on the hunt to add Thai Basil to my garden.... I've been growing the same common Sweet Basil for almost 10+ years in a row... Time for some change in my garden! :-)
Thanks again for the suggestion!
Charles :-)
Love this channel. Epsoma also make an organic product called Tomato Tone - with 8% calcium. That totally fixed the one time a crop of heirloom tomatoes I was growing were affected by blossom end rot. FWIW.
THANK YOU CHARLES! I LEARNED A LOT FROM YOU IN GROWING MY GARDEN THE RIGHT WAY! GOD BLESS YOU. THANKS AGAIN.
Thank you so much. This is my second year trying to grow tomatoes. Your videos are really helping me
Thank you. You are so practical and use natural methods. And you are not selling any products. I so appreciate your videos and have subscribed.
Very interesting as always. I was pleased to share your site with my sister who lives in LA and has just started growing tomatoes again after many years. She, by the way, is also a biologist. Thanks and happy growing.
EXCELLENT video calcium is important to prevent blossom end rot on tomatoe but I've seen more blossom end rot on squash, all varieties. This advice is good for growing squash as well
Please answer thus good question
Great video! A caution from my garden: I planted a passion fruit vine my first year- by the third year the vine was sending out runners within a 5 foot radius, then beyond. It took me 3 years to get rid of all the runners. Shaded a large area. The fruit didn’t taste good, and the flowers were beautiful up close, but not a flash as I’d hoped.......
Wow! You have the prettiest tomatoes i have ever seen in a home garden.
Best gardening videos I have ever seen your knowledge of plants and biology is incredible!
I think its important to note blossom end rot is not always a lack of calcium. Occasionally it is a watering program where the calcium is not being taken up by the plant. Too much as well as too little water. Not always as simple as giving the plant some food. Thanks for the through review tho. Very helpful
Hello Mary 👋 So true- watering definitely can have an effect on nutrient uptake & plant health! I’ve got to remember to share your point in a future lesson!!
Happy Gardening,
Charles 🌱👍
@@IVOrganic can i ask is the time of watering important example before the sun rise or after the sunsets and if so which is better for summertime and winter time crops. how do you gauge water overuse also , grazie tanto from Australia love your schooling and thank You for shareing ...
It's great to hear someone talking good sense these days...I suggest subscribing. Thank you for such excellent presentations!
I save my eggshells, banana peels and when the cookie sheet gets full I slow cook them to dry them out. 210 - 215 degrees. turn the oven on at night and check in the morning. when the banana skins are dried out I grind them up to a powder. sprinkle in the garden.
Very clever Cheryl Johnson! Thank you for sharing your gardening tip with us! :-)
Charles
Cheryl, I've been doing the same as you for a couple of years and put the powdered shells, powdered banana peels, plus a couple of tablespoons of Epson salts in my tomato planting holes and the plants produce lots of fruit.
Dave Lawson $12 - 15/hour profits is enough to live. Plus you save money by growing your food, and you save also money from doctors and drugs. All in all, it's all good.
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Cheryl Johnson sounds like lots of wasted money on coal-burning-produced electricity.
Charles, thank you very much for your desire and wisdom in showing your planting strategies. While I don't have the same type of climate here in Maine, I can use much of what you showed us. I throw so many eggs in the compost daily, and I will change my ways in this process now.
Very helpful. I learned so many things that we will do with out garden tomatoes! He was so knowledgeable and encouraging! Excited for great tomatoes this year!
I am watching this from kenya, honestly this is legit info with rich content on tomato. hail to technology, hail iv organic. Woke up at 5:55am to watch this. Zip tie diy- totally awesome same as compost. Loved you tomato harvest n tomato support for determinant tomatoes. The egg puree best hack ever..
What do you have in your planting / growing rotation now?
Wow! I marvel at the maturity of your March plants. Here in Iowa, with 2 late frosts in April, my plants are just beginning to enter the growth cycle. That's the way it goes. I'll give the egg shell puree a try. Great idea. BTW, I overdid the coffee this year [200lb/100ftsq~Oct-Feb. I had to do something with it]. What they say about stunted growth looks to be true, but I'm here to tell you, the worms love it. Never seen so many before in a garden. Stunted plants this year, great soil next. I guess you can't have everything at once.
Thank you for posting..I grew up in Southern California (Anaheim Hills and Yorba Linda) back in the 70's and early 80's I would run in fields (before it was all developed and cement toll ways) of California Poppies
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@Hi there Christine..
I am from San Diego... moved to Colorado on 1997. I still miss living near the ocean. I am planting a community garden plot for the first time this year. This video taught me so much. Have fun planting your babies.
Thanks for the tomatoe tips. I’m growing tomatoes for the first time and started my seedlings in Jan 2020. Have 30 or 40 plants in various stages up to 11 inches so am ready to start planting. With covid19 I’ve decided to grow over 888 food plants. I have 3 1/2 acres. My peas radishes carrots lettuce potatoes greens and of course flowers (edible) have emerged. I love to see my new babies sprouting forth. Thanks for your expertise. CMACshack green gardens
Do not forget to plant fruit trees, they make good wind brakes and planted in the right places will cut the acreage into easier manageable plots.
I live on 4 acres and have tried to grow a garden during this pandemic. Is so difficult with the deer and squirrels. I have trapped and eliminated about 30 squirrels. I have fences to keep deer out. Your irrigation must be the biggest challenge. Is for me but I use timers and drip.
@@michaelprice3785 Try using creosote keeps most animals away just create an air born smell with a few rags around the fence line do not over do it as it will kill plants and ruin soil. do not use substitute as it dose not work. irrigation is a problem but with a little thought can be overcome using shade and soil building methods new gardens can take a few years to get right. it is a good idea to find out how far below the surface the water table is and that will usually let you know if you are wasting your time trying to grow shallow rooted crops. A well is a good idea you do not need drinking water just water and that can usually be found by hand digging.
@@michaelprice3785Couldn't you fence out the Squirrels too? Maybe use netting on top,
keeps out birds as well. 🤔
Also we can grow enough food for all of us on this planet; including the wild animals who are an important part of the ecosystem.
Killing everything throws the balance off...
It's not a good look or practice.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience and knowledge. I just received my Sweet 100 seeds. Looking forward to caring for them. Thank you for the egg shell purée so glad I can add water. I just learned French Marigolds are native to South America, African are native to North America perennial and have large varieties.
Excellent video ..! I'm feeling blessed and grateful that I spotted a few of your helpful videos tonight. I bought a 6 pack of early girl tomato plants yesterday; and wasn't 100% sure what my best solutions would be as far as organic fertilizers and pest resistant products. So this video truly helped. Thank you very much; I really appreciate your gardening common sense and wisdom.
Thanks for the videos. I grow mostly in containers, we have these big African Snails here in Hawaii. They are huge and can eat a whole kale plant in one night. What works well for my situation is copper tape, if I wrap the container with it the snails won't go there. The sealing paint you sell is great stuff, we also have a lot of wood boring insects here and it stops them cold. Thanks again, hope to see those sweet 100's when they are full of fruit.
Hello Ken Hughes,
Thank you so much for the compliment! :-) As I showed in the video, SluggoPlus an effective and organic product that I would typically used around my seedlings in the garden.. but not broadcast over the entire garden to kill every bug that consumes the product. I would recommend scattering the product a few inches around each of your kale plants. Here is the link with more details about the product: www.homedepot.com/p/Monterey-1-lb-Sluggo-Plus-LG6575/202043634 I will be sure to post follow-ups to these tomatoes and I am most looking forward to the Early Girl and Sweet 100 tomatoes!!! Have a great weekend!
Charles
I dry mine first and use a coffee grinder works great nice fine power.lisa in East Central Ohio
Just did that this morning. I have my powdered shells soaking in white vinegar, then will add water and use the mixture to water my tomatoes and squash later today.
So me the hobby garden person needs to protect the world and the Gaint Farms have killers and feed the most of our population and that goes on and the world dies anyway....
Don't sell me the organic farm theriomorphic
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Me too, I save be about two pounds a year. I add mine in early spring while I get my garden ready for planting.
it nice to listen to charles , He makes and sound everything simple, so that you take up the hobby of gardening. This is the only way I have found myself out in the garden then in the supermarket
I collect banana peel and egg shells from the week and store them in the fridge. End of the week, I blend them all together.
I would suggest, if I may, that people only buy organic bananas if they are composting or using the peels this way. I lived in Costa Rica and know first hand how much they are sprayed with pesticides (coffee plants too ). The local waters had dead fish from the runoff. Organic bananas don't cost much more. I would give up coffee before I would drink pesticide sprayed.
I put the egg shells in a small coffee grinder, their just like dust. As well their very good for your pets.
Wow love the information, here in Québec, Canada it’s still snowing so I have to wait for May, hopefully we will get a beautiful warm summer.
Crush egg shell will keep slugs away.
Hi Charles sorry about the delay i want to thank you very much for the in depth reply to my tomato problem B E R and blight absolute fantastic you are a real hero thanks a million i now have great satisfaction and peace of mind thanks to you Ed
Hello Ed,
Soooo glad to be of help! I hope you have an endless supply of tomatoes this year! :-)
Charles
Hi Charles, thank you for posting educational videos. I really enjoy learning the Biology side of gardening. I'm an Engineer so I know how valuable theory can be, thank you!
Hello Brandon Hubbard,
Thank you so much for taking the time to write me, and for the compliment!!!
Charles :-)
Loved the written notes to layout video. I have started a 3x4 box above my ditch culvert. Wasted space, always needs weedeating. I placed a big piece of pvc below front of box to level. I now have 2 foot tomato plants thriving. I turned an 8x8 dog kennel into my backyard garden. Cucumbers and bell peppers around the parameter with spinach and lettuce up the middle. Everything survived the 2 recent hurricanes we had in FL. I can cover the kennel for the few days of frost we get each year.
Finally somebody who does gardening in Southern California. Thanks much! Great videos, easy to follow ! Love them👍
Mercedes Aschenbrenner I just moved from CA so it’s different but this is so much useful info for all areas
I am learning so much from your videos. Now I really want to continue with my gardening.
Thank you very much for this informative video! I especially appreciate the fact that you recommend organic gardening. Thank you for your expertise!
I just plant my first veggie plants today, I plant cucumber 🥒 tomatoes 🍅 chili Jalapeño 🌶 and mint. I also do my own compost. Let’s just wait to see my results.
Fingers crossed from Philly.😊
Dear Charles, your video has enlightened me and was extremely educational. I thank you for your heartfelt sincerity to share your love to grow healthy foods. I am looking forward to watching your future takes of inspiration. All my best to you and yours;)
Excited this year because for the first time got my tomatoes going from seed. May still add a couple of store bought, but am pumped about this experiment. Have lots of shells from our duck eggs, so will grind/blend and add those as you recommend. Been an odd spring - a bit cool here - so in the hardening off stage for the seedlings now. Hope to get planted into the raised beds in a few days. Thanks for the tutorial.
If I'd of had this education 20+ years ago I may have had better success in growing vegetable. The one thing I had success with was growing lemons and mangoes from seeds.
After living all our lives in the San Fernando Valley about four years ago we moved to the Inland Empire to retire. I've been looking for ways to grow stuff but the weather is so different here than in the Glendale/Burbank where we lived. Everything is so sandy and dry. I sprouted a mango seed and it's about 2 feet now. Other than that I mostly only planted various cactus plants but I miss my lemon. Meyer lemons, the best. I've tried sprouting seeds but I haven't had any luck. I just planted another batch hoping they will take. I actually tried numerous ways to no avail.
After watching your video here I just might try to grow some tomatoes. I just love tomatoes.
Your videos are so amazingly informative! I feel like I'm taking a class on tomatoes, and I love it! Thank you so much, I'm so glad I found you on here!
I really thank you for taking out the time to share with me ive learned a lot to use on my garden so keep up the good work as you continue to garden your way through vegetables
by the way, i took many egg shells(50?) and put them in a coffee grinder, they are like a feather, im good with that, they will break down fast enough
I'm a very green beginner with gardening. It's way too hot here in N.TX to begin now so I'm starting to study for next year, I believe I will start with containers to see how it goes. Over the years I've heard a little about using eggshells and coffee grounds. I'm so tired of buying tasteless tomatoes at the store, so I'm going to give it a go. Thank you so much for your in-depth explanations.
It's easier to blend egg shells dry. (No adding water) That way they get pulverized. Then put a small spoon of the pulverized shells in each plant.
I use Rosemary Plants and plant them in between my Roses and other Plants like Tomatoes to keep Pests away , works extreamly well
You have to love this guy... Hello from Calgary Alberta. It is hard to get a crop off before frost in a 4a zone. I found a tomato at a farmers market - the cashier said it was bad but I just wanted the seeds... I have grown it for 10 or 11 years now and it will ripen before the first frost...The tomato I am growing is called a Bulgarian giant I think, it is huge and juicy... Thanks for the Video - That is all...
Hello Cliver McGyver,
Thank you for the compliment!!! And so great to hear from you in Canada! :-) Have you considered growing varieties of cherry tomatoes, which can ripen even faster than some of the larger varieties of tomatoes. It appears that your growing season is between May and October. weather.com/weather/monthly/l/CAXX0054:1:CA To get a jump start on your tomato growing success, have you tried growing your tomatoes indoors about 4-6 weeks before the planting season, and then taking them outside once the last chance of frost has passed? Starting your plants too early end up growing too thin and weak "leggy" as they call it. Keep me posted on your growing success this year! Charles :-)
I do not have a lot of room - and seem to be fixated on this one brand. I have split the genetics down to a very ugly and a very round one of the same species... Watching the change over the year with just one verity is very pleasurable. Going on 11 years now. This year I will try to dissolve egg shells with vinegar and use that to control my end rot... I use CaCo3 in my stained glass work and will test it in a different location...I have 2 lights 400 watts metal halide. they are reaching the top of the 4 inch container. I start with 1 inch of soil and add soil as it is needed - as the plant gains height... I get great transplants based on height vs thickness of stock...I could talk gardening all day or at least do it... That is all...
That's a great trick to gain a better root system. Do you use mycorrhizal fungi at all?
Cliver McGyver
Hi, from Tennessee! 🌱
Awesome video, I learned so much. I knew about marigolds but not the onions to protect the tomatoes. My dad would have tomato, marigold, tomato, marigold, etc. Thank you so much. 👍🏼
Wonderful video! It is one of my favorite gardening videos and so helpful as I am planting on a trellis this year. I am saving this one for sure.
Thank you so much. 🌱🌿🌾🍀
I will be watching your show for ever, I’m’ going to put it on practice.
I use my new Ninja to grind up some egg shells and decided to just to leave the egg shells in the pitcher and add more as I go - little did I know that the eggshells would ruin my pitcher - leaving pits all in the inside of it!! Just in case anybody else decided to do the same.
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Thank you. I'm just starting to use the egg shell mixture and didn't know that.
@@betsybarnicle8016 yep damaged my ninja too
Since getting 2 feral cats to live in my yard I have not lost anything to a squirrel, rat, bird etc. Best security team ever.
I enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for making 'em. Could you consider making a video all on watering. I'm curious as to how you manage watering everything in your garden. Thanks for the great videos and keep 'em coming.
I many times wish I didn’t live in such a cool climate (northern Alberta, Canada) when the winters are long and cold, and I see your temperatures are so high. But oh-my-goodness, I could not imagine such high temperatures in your summers. It would drive me nuts! I do like to see spring coming when it does, though, like a breath of new life!
This is a wonderful, especially EGG SHELL PUREE .
I am going to award you a *Ph.d degree* on Tomato Exploration. Thanks
I just grind crushed shells in a separate coffee grinder. No water necessary. We eat lots of organic, free range eggs, so I store ground shells in a plastic coffee container.
I add broken egg chunks, Tea dust, coffee dust and rice washed water.. Veg peel pastes.. Banana peels.. My NPKCA is covered naturally.. I do no really like using any packed products when we have everything handy in kitchen.. Nice video
This is my first time enjoying your RUclips channel. Great work! I’m looking forward to more great content from you. Thank you so much for this informative video! I got so much out of it. You’re a great teacher.
I bake my eggshells and use a coffee grinder to make dust. Then I add vinegar to make the calcium break down. I add a teaspoon of that mixture to a Liter of water. It also helps lower the PH of my tap water.
I would never put vinegar in anything going in my garden. I had to pressure wash my house and it had mold. I ended up using vinegar. This was two years ago and where the runoff went has been barren, not even weeds will grow there now.
Did you know you can plant parsley with you tomatoes? They’re a companion plant that helps them grow and keeps pest off .
There is a lot of plants that are that way it’s the safest way to grow organic. I have a book on Companion Gardening it’s the only way I do my garden.
That is so cool. I plant radishes and basil with my tomatoes to keep bugs away. What plant is good to keep away spider mites?
task2wgu I will have to find my book and then I will let you know
Thank you :)
Cilantro?
Parsley also host plants for swallowtail butterfly😊🦋
I've learned more from u than any of the post's so far. I made so many unnecessary mistakes. Tks. Marcia
I made eggshell puree last year. The eggshells, while blending, scratched the surface of my Vitamix blender container - it is plastic. I was not aware that it could happen. Also, the puree - eggshells are a lot heavier then water, so. They plummet to the bottom of the container and are hard to get out.
Yes it will, I puree in my animals veggie fruit mix adding to their meats I prepare for them each day. I have a second container for my needs which is still like new, the scratched up one is for their needs, and of course garden needs as well. You might consider a second one, you can get it on Amazon.
California people have it so easy with plants and gardens. They truly have a great environment.
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Thank you for this great, information filled garden tutorial. I feel totally confident about planting my first community garden (raised bed) plots (80 sq ft). Digging in the dirt is so therapeutic... especially during this pandemic. Stay safe.🌿🍎
A small amount of garden lime at planting prevents, and also quickly stops, blossom end rot. Lime is organic. Boron, copper, zinc etc are trace elements naturally found in soils that have not been depleted by continuous cropping of the same plant in the same garden beds (monoculture) which is done on many commercial farms. If you do grow your tomatoes in the same beds every year you will need to replace the trace elements.
You can save the water when you hard boil eggs and water your tomato's with it to add calcium also
Good idea.
Terry Fields great tip - thanks! 🏴
Thank you , I use miracle grow for my tomatoes and I did not realize there was no calcium in it and I will go buy some so that my tomato 🍅 plants get there calcium thej need
Your discussion here is excellent! I learned so much. I liked all the details and the reasons for all you do. Thank you so much!
Try dry eggshells and put them in a blender without water and you'll get an even finer almost powdered result.
I bought a coffee grinder at Goodwill for my egg shells. They are powdery!!!
If you have a clear plastic blender cup this will sand blast the inside of it and it will no longer be clear. This is how I ruined my Ninja blender cup.
@@greghackney8437 good point.... I use my old and broken food processor....
I bought a coffee grinder at a thrift store for $1.50 I only use it to grind my egg shells & it's powdery works great
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I just grind dried egg shells with my spice grinder into a fine powder, then i just mix it into the soil before planting my tomatoes. And you can easily store the extra powder for later coz its dry.
Which spice grinder do you use?
@@jennifer7022 Use the coffee grinder! I do it all the time.
Thanks for the tomatoes information. Learned a lot, I'm about to transplant my seedlings
"I've never lost a plant to slugs"
I wish it wasn't so common up the coast here in the PNW. Very informational video, enjoyed every bit of it!
Congrats on the success of this video in only one months time Charles!
This is nice! I crush mine in my hand and save em in a mason jar for transplants as slow release nutrients but never thought of blending em! Great idea to get my tomatoes calcium much faster, thanks! 🙏🏽
I wonder if you could soak them in water in the mason jar so the calcium leaches out?
@@CWBush73 maybe the liquid goes rotten due to the proteins in the shell
crushed egg shells..asprin..tums tablets..add to seed startingsoil
Thanks so much! Learned a lot. The IV Organics 3-in-1 Plant Guard sounds so rational. Wishing I lived where it were not QUITE so windy. (Top of a hill in Oakland with fierce winds. Working on creating breaks with walls of staked bean plants.) So far, no luck with tomatoes. May you enjoy your harvest, stay well and safe and find a bit of joy each day.
Everything is a chemical; even the organic stuff. It is the chemical compounds in the organics that makes it beneficial to our gardens.
In taste tests I did 40 years ago..in same soil...tomatoes celebrity , Roma, and early girl..all tomatoes grown with heavy egg shell slurry were sweeter in blind taste tests with more than 12 people tasting. Every year I used to have a tomato testing party. I always planted 12 different tomato varieties.
Try thorny brambles like a fence to keep the slugs away. They can't crawl over it
I burn natural wood in my fire pit & with the ash & bits of burnt wood I add it to my tomatoes garden beds & the plants do great , It's a lot like when a forest fire happens & all the new growth comes back beautiful from the fire ash , Also I think the smell of burnt ash / bits helps keep the gritters out of the garden , This year going to try it with some of my bell peppers .
LOL I just blended eggshells for my tomatoes a few days ago before I saw this video!
It's big brother watching you! 😊
Ever notice you can have a conversation about something you would like to buy - and up pops an ad on google for that very thing! Scary!
@@somethingintheair5373 if you read your user agreement for your phone, you'll see that they do record what you say in the background (always, not just when you're using it) and search for keywords for targeted advertising and data collection. very disturbing. look yourself up on spokeo for instance.
Go Ashley! Your tomorrow are gonna be awesome! I've been looking up lots on gardening too! Glad it suggested this one but I already unfortunately added the Miracle Gro 🤦🏾♀️😔🤷
I have a lot of shade around my house depending on the time of day also so I plant in 5 gallon buckets so that I can move my tomatoes back into the sun as the day passes.
I used to have a flat dolly, like at the garden centers, and had all my pots (or flats earlier in the spring) on the dolly so I could roll them out of the (warmer) garage in the morning and then pull them around to follow the sun.
I'm in Montana. Do the same. I move my giant pots in the garage at night. I also warm my dirt in pots before planting.
For my eggshells I use a coffee grinder. Then I add that powder to the soil before planting. It solved my blossom rot issue.
OMG!!!😳 Your Early Girl harvest from 1 plant is ASTOUNDING!
Bad Strawberry + egg shells + avocado skins and seed + banana skin and a half teaspoon of salt is my booster shot for my garden. I freezes it and use it on my plants once a month and the roots of my plants are crazy. Not for indoor use, made a mistake at first since fruit fly love it. But outdoor are the best. I sometime buy wasted fruit from my local grocery place for cheap. I told them to keep me bad strawberry and bananas, $6 a full box of them.
It is really great to have so much info to add to ones Brain x x i love the way you point out what is on the packet which we need to know Beautiful Hot day here. x hope you are safe and well during this Horrid virus.
I heard the word eggshells for tomatoes last year..so I started saving them..then I thought put them in the blender..well now they are like powder and I have a lot..but I didnt know how much to use..so I put in about 1/3 cup. Will the tomatoe plants be ok? And you say we only need about 2 egg shells per plant with some water and pour around the plant later this summer , I just need more detail? Thank you!!
Thank you. Very informative, I really learnt a lot. I plant every year but I always have a bug problem, I live in Central Florida so another problem is the heat.
A trick that I use is to dry the egg shells in the oven (while cooking something else) and then put them in a plastic bag, crush with your hand, then use a rolling pin over it. Because they're dry, you can crush them almost into a powder.
Use a blender for powder.
I set the half shell upside down on a paper towel n let them dry for a day or so. Then I lightly crush them in a mason jar and then use a meat tenderizer to gently crush the shells. I've done this for OVER 40 yrs n it works great, don't need it as a powder just put a couple tablespoons of the crushed egg shells at the bottom of the hole for each plant. If you're planting from seeds, dry out the eggshell and plant the seed in it!!!! Transplant seed n shell together.
Here’s my recipe for eggshells. 3-4 doz egg shells. Bake ay 300 degrees one hr. Grind in food processor NO water! Place in a container 1 gal, add white vinegar about 32 oz and let it sit covered lightly for 2-3 weeks. The vinegar breaks down the calcium and is neutral ph of 7. Use 1-2 tb per gal ! Great info !
Thanks, I like the blender method better than my rolling pin crushing .
Glad to help Tijoe227! :-)
Charles
Bless u for bringing the importance of respecting the plant biosphere by avoiding such pest killing chemical products... u da man !