I knew I wanted to try some of the fertilizing tips from Love Apple Farms, and was able to wrangle up some of them, but the more specialized ingredients proved hard to find. in the end I was able to get the worn castings, the bone meal and discovered I already had a tomato and vegetable food. It’s a different formula than recommended by Love Apple Farms, but since I already had it I decided to use it instead of buying something new.
I also visited our local fish monger, Monterey Fish Company, and they were able to give me four HUGE fish heads with full skeletons—although I got some very interesting looks when I told them I wasn’t going to eat them, but was going to plant them instead… Since they only had four heads and six holes for the tomatoes, I used the bodies and tails in the other two planting holes. This was by far the ickiest and smelliest thing I’ve done for my garden—Brendan was highly entertained listening to me squeal as I took an axe to the huge fish trying to get them into manageable pieces to plant with the tomatoes.
We dug the holes as deep as we could to make sure the raccoons didn’t dig up the fish heads and then planted the tomatoes along with all the fertilizers I’d rounded up. It seems we dug them in deep enough because they all survived the evening visit by our local raccoons without incident. My tomato food package also recommends feeding the tomatoes every 12 weeks after planting so I’ve marked the calendar for continued tomato pampering. Now we water, wait and hope we get a bumper crop this year!
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