Great Big Plants

[Sodak]

http://www.greatbigplants.com/Tomato...act-s/1823.htm

I received this from Laurel last year and used it as a "dunking" mix for transplants. They did well, but they were in new potting mix or new raised beds and used TTF for fertilizer after that and had good results. Used Neptune mix as a foliar spray as well.

Anybody else used this "liquid compost" or have a take on it?

Dick

[FILMNET]

Sounds nice, I use Neptune's also, actually i am growing herbs in pots which will be in these pots all summer. I put Neptune water in the dirt before putting the seeds in. They all came up in 1 week, really fast for me.

[b54red]

I was more than happy with Texas Tomato Food last year and hope it works as well this year.

Bill

[carolyn137]

I do like Neptunes Harvest products as well, but partly b'c that's where the variety now called Neves Azorean Red came from, as given to the then owner, I means the tomatoes, in exchange for the fish and seaweed fertilizers, both cold pressed to retain micronutrients.

Carolyn

[Sodak]

Carolyn, do you dip the transplants' rootball in anything prior to putting in the ground?

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Sodak

Carolyn, do you dip the transplants' rootball in anything prior to putting in the ground?

No I didn't Dick.

My set up when I was in my prime tomato growing days was growing tomatoes by sprawling, in 250 ft long rows where I had many hundreds of plants and varieties each season. Distances within the rows was about 3-4 ft and distance between rows was 5 ft so that cultivation could be done, via tractor, at least initially, by one of the men who worked for Charlie, my good farmer friend who prepared my large field for me each year. And if Roy wasn't available I was out there with my Mantis tiller, using it as a mechanical hoe.

I preferred to set out plants, crawling along a row on my knees, that were rootbound, not fluffy as in a fibrous root system, since those fibrous roots break quickly and are very fragile.

Soooo, I always wanted slow steady growth that is the best for forming a new root system when those roots were adapting to real soil and never wanted to push them along with ANY fertilizers. So absolutely no dipping of rootballs into liquid fertilizers

Actually, by choice, I never put anythingin the planting hole except the plant, and then watered in to get rid of any air pockets.

And the plants were never fertilized until at least two weeks after being planted.

I used the Neptune's harvest stuff only as a foliage drench when I couldn't get near enough to the root system to add granular fertilizer.

Long answer, but that's what I did.

Carolyn