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Plants in the ground!
Plants in the ground!
Feeling pretty cool,
Plants in the ground!
Feeling pretty cool,
with my Plants in the ground!
Low and behold, Utah has finally had a Sunny Saturday in May.
Praise it all…my vegetable garden has finally been planted.
Praise it all…my vegetable garden has finally been planted.
Yippee!
I always get a little worn out (and sunburned) on the planting day, but once the old girl is in…she is in!
There is just something wonderful about digging a bit in the dirt.
Planting some sort of living thing.
Watching it grow into something bigger and better than it was.
Benefiting from the harvest it will bare…..
It really is an amazing cycle.
I wanted to share a little Tomato Plant Food recipe that my dear Grandmother has passed on to me. I tried it last year and my tomatoes had never been so good!
I thought you might like to know about it. I wanted to give a little heads up as well. I have several FABULOUS garden tomato recipes I’m planning on posting towards the end of the summer when my tomatoes are ripe.
Canned Salsa
Canned Spaghetti Sauce
and Canned Sweet Pepper Relish…
are all on just waiting on deck.
I also wanted to mention the fabulousness of planting onion bulbs. Do you ever find yourself purchasing green onions and then having them go bad on you before you can make your
I sure as goodness do. For the past several years I have been planting onion bulbs. I plant them pretty close together and then use them for green onions. The beauty of it is…
…they don’t turn rotten in the dirt like they do in my fridge….
….if I don’t rush out to pick them, they just keep on a growing….
….they will grow in cool and warm weather……
….they are lovely to look at……
All good reasons to get some planted in the ground. Look for onion BULBS, not the seeds. I planted these about 6 weeks ago and have been using them in salads and other fine things for 2 weeks now. Give it a try!
Here are a few pictures I took today of the spring flowers and plants we have been enjoying in our yard. Keep scrolling down for the Tomato Plant Food Recipe.
Who knew that this lovely Oregano plant would come around for a second year? I was under the impression it was a one year gig. What a beauty! What should we make with it?
Magic Tomato Plant Food please do NOT feed to humans! I bet compost would taste pretty grainy. The little wood chips might get stuck in your teeth and who knows what it might do to your digestive system. I’m just sayin…leave this concoction for the red beauties.
Yield: will feed about 6 tomato plants
Time: 5 minutes
Recipe from Jerry Baker
3 C compost/mulch/dirt
1/2 C Epsom salt
1 T baking soda
1/2 C powdered milk
1. Mix all the ingredients together in a bucket.
2. Place a handful of the mixture into the hole you are digging for your tomato plant. If you have already planted you can sprinkle a handful of the mixture around the stem of the plant and then water.
I’m going to use this formula on my tomatoes, but would like to know if I can also use it on my flowers as well? Thank you so much for the recipe..
The last two years my tomato plants have dropped their leaves after the tomatoes have gotten green. The tomatoes get ripe but the smaller ones don’t get any bigger but do get ripe. I believe I have a blight. What do I do?
the powdered milk is a new thing but then i spray with sugar water the day before transplanting tomatoes and sugar sprinkled around plant a few days before harvest makes them sweeter – guess all the sugars in beer will work too!!
Ran across this post, love the way you put things. From Missouri, if you have Pintrest site let me know please, might use your recipes..
Hi Robert,
Thanks for your kind words. Here is a link to my pinterest page.
https://www.pinterest.com/jamiecooksitup/pins/
Happy cooking!
~Jamie
As I copied the recipe for the tomato mix is that 1 tbs or 1 tsp. Thanks
I have been using Epsom salts for years, that is what my mom did too. Aa new problem this year has bee the deer have roamed in and eaten the main ste tops off the tomatoes. I think out of 24 they missed 4. Is there any hope for the rest of the tomatoes?
I live in South Carolina and have had mixed, but mostly bad, results growing tomatoes. The dirt in my yard ranges from quite sandy to an almost ash-consistency. There are spots I can push my hand straight down with very little resistance and eight inches down the soil feels hot. I ran across a Jerry Baker tonics book at a Goodwill store recently and picked it up for two dollars. The tomato recipe you published is in the book along with numerous others and I have begun some plants this year using one of Jerry’s recipes. I also put a teaspoon of sugar in each hole before moving the tomatoes to their planting pots, per one of his suggestions. I still have the plants in pots, but will prepare a spot for them in the yard very soon by removing the ‘dead’ dirt and replacing it with a mixture of compost, manure, newspapers, and plant food. So far the plants are looking healthy and I have hope that they will reward me with a good harvest. I love fresh tomatoes from the vine!
can you use this for any plants and veg or just tomatoes, as I have salad carrots onions tomatoes sprouts strawberrys and a few other bits groing both I beds and in the ground.
Years ago I read a Jerry Baker formula for the tomato hole that included a couple tea bags, some tums and Epsom salts and a garlic clove.
I’ve always wondered what benefit the tea has? But have continued to use them all to great results
Thank you! I’m going to try this!