Good morning, Everyone. I hope this day is good for you!
Today, I thought about this post and I know that technically it is not a food recipe, and yet it could be, many recipes.
So, here we go! This year I decided to buy a 9 pack of Rutger tomato plants to start out with as with this Florida, hot weather, and the bugs. Oh, the bugs! When in previous years that I started out with seeds and the longer that they had to grow to be big and ripe, well if the bugs didn’t get them then they heat, did!
Next year, I will do my seed planting early so I have my own plants from these tomatoes.
I do have 4 tomato plants in the bucket and 1 in the ground, in my photo. I also have bamboo sticks for stakes to tie up the tomatoes as they grow.
Let,s talk fertilizer. I use Miracle Grow. Banana peelings (cut up). And I used my washed and dried, crushed, egg-shells. This gives potassium and calcium to the plants. When I get a bunch, saved up, then I use them on my plants.
Also every 15 days, I make 3 cups of water with 1 tsp of Epsom salt and just hand drip a little on my plants. For more blooms.
This year, I took a bar of Irish Spring Bath Soap (you only need one bar). I would fill a huge bowl with warm water and let the soap melt until the water looked soapy and then I poured off the water into a gallon jug and a spray bottle. Off, that one bar, you can do this many times.
Spray this lightly, every 3 days for pests and you will have none!
Every early morning, I have to water each planter bucket of tomatoes with 1 gallon of water or evening. This is where the Miracle Grow comes in. On, every 4th day, I use only 1 Gallon jug of water with 2 heaping tsp of Miracle grow to water all my tomato plants and my roses, also. Then I continue with regular water until each bucket has had it’s daily gallon of water.
I do hope that this post will be interesting for you! There are tons of great Gardners, out there. This is just the way that I do it!
Thank you for you visit and fell free to come back for more if you wish.
Connie B. #CONNIEBRECIPESWISDOMFORPENNIES
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