Saturday, July 9, 2011

Regular Fertilizing

Today (7/9) I supplied another round of fertilizer to the garden.  My plan is to water-in organic fertilizer every two weeks.  I picked up some Age Old Bloom fertilizer that is high in phosphorous to promote development of the fruit.  Two ounces of this fertilizer in two gallons of water covers the entire garden.


As part of my regular fertilizing, I'm also putting a small amount (a tablespoon or less per square foot) of bone meal, blood meal, and epsom salts on the surface of the soil near the plants.  I want the bone meal for phosphorous and calcium, the blood meal for nitrogen, and the epsom salts for magnesium near the tomatoes and peppers.  I'm intentionally adding the nitrogen to keep the leaves growing on the tomatoes so that I can keep the vertical growth happening until the plants reach the top of the trellis.

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