New Generation Tomato Growing Tip

[My Foot Smells]

You want a crazy amount of tomatoes? When you plant them put a raw egg and a banana under the plant. We had a ridiculous amount of tomatoes last year with this trick.

(this was excerpt of a friend who was getting tomato growing advice on a facebook post. Epson salt is evidently a miracle drug by one account, but the above comment made me laugh-out-loud)

[MissS]

A raw egg? Hmm, whole in the shell or broken open?

It seems to me that it won't be just your foot smelling...

[My Foot Smells]

(ver batum)


Seeking Advice: Okay gonna ask a question and it may sound stupid but I've never heard of doing this. So do you put the banana in there peeled or unpeeled, and is the egg in the shell or not?</SPAN>

Expert: banana in its peel and the egg in it's shell</SPAN>

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by My Foot Smells

(ver batum)


Seeking Advice: Okay gonna ask a question and it may sound stupid but I've never heard of doing this. So do you put the banana in there peeled or unpeeled, and is the egg in the shell or not?</SPAN>

Expert: banana in its peel and the egg in it's shell</SPAN>

Don't need the egg in the shell,just the shells if that's the way one wants to offer Ca++, and I haven't seen anyone do that in ages.

The bananna is for potassium, again, if that's what a person wants to do instead of many other ways of providing both the Ca++ and K +.

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/...-juices/1846/2

Both have been mentioned for many decades, I'm old myself so I ought to know,but most these days use fertilizers of different NPK values or specific individual amendments depending on whether they are growing in soil, which I call dirt,or in artificial mix.

Carolyn