Where did you find that price at? I'm was wanting to try some out this year. I used Biotone and it was awesome last year for my flowers.

Hi Dezi

Click the link in my first post

Jerry

Thanks, I had to log into the desktop version to see it. There wasn't a link on the phone app. Awesome! How are the tomatoes doing? I keep waiting to start mine. I have a few new varieties for me this year. I'm going to try Black Krim and Pineapple.

Thanks, Jerry. I just ordered the Tomatotone plus lots of yellow sticky traps.

Thanks for the tip! We are going to try it also this year. Looks like we missed the good price though. Seems to be available at O'Tooles so we will check there also.

Edit: We just found the $17.25 price on Walmart.com. Have to order $35 for free shipping but that is easy with Walmart.

Ours came. We are thinking of working it into the entire bed before planting. Our yield wasn't very good last year and we are wondering if it is because the bed is getting worn out. This says it helps all fruiting plants so should be good for our other plants. Thanks for the tip!

. . . our Espoma order is on hold, arriving after Easter. Luckily I won't need any for another month+. The sticky traps arrived though.

mmmm12, I probably would not add the Espoma to your entire garden. Have you amended your soil with other additives like shredded leaves, compost, aged manure? I would look into these before adding Espoma to your whole garden. There are places that sell varying soils and additives. One of the guys in the CG bought 1/2 yard of really great compost. The only problem were the weeds that he neglected to pull.

Funny story - last year a 'person' filled a small raised bed with bagged soil, not listening to any info I suggested. The carrots grew to an inch long, the pepper plants produced ONE pepper, about 1/2 inch long. They were too impatient to listen to any advice about soils.

Tomatoz1,

We previously had rototilled in the previous year garden debris and stuff from a composter. Tons of weed seeds seemed to get activated that way. As a result we stopped doing it. I was thinking this might be a short cut to revitalizing the bed but it sounds like you don’t think it would work.

mmmm12, your plants should love the leftovers from your garden and compost, too. You will have to mulch w/ leaves or grass or straw to keep some of the weeds at bay. Now that most of the snow has melted, I can see lots of baby plants popping up in the stones. They are probably flowers but are still weeds. This should be a great weekend to weed 😀.

Don’t compost the nightshade plants - tomatoes especially as blight can overwinter in the soil.