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Wednesday, January 01, 2025
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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So enough about the primroses and the nonexistent winter. Did I mention the non-existent winter? There I did.
So getting right back into tomatoes now: I spread this mulch and sprinkled about a gallon of fermented honey syrup over top of it I also added a pound or two of "fish bone meal" which isnt just fish bone meal its actually mixed with alfalfa and other goodies. So really its a balanced blended product. I will probably add more of it later. I apologize if this is lengthy and tedious but I'm trying to record what I'm doing (at least until I get too busy to do so).
Bone meal does a great job of supplying what my soil lacks so I cant go wrong with it. But where I think I could go wrong would be to add too much nitrogen relative to everything else.
Lots of brown compost here (pine needles, dead chopped grass, leaves, wood shavings).
Lots of worms.
But the reason for posting is that I remembered something: last years tomatoes actually followed, or were planted within, an early crop of potatoes. And previously I had assumed this was bad and that it would hurt my results but how do I know? What if it helped? If maybe the soil myco was well established because of the potatoes and all the potato myco gave the tomatoes a boost? The main reason I say this is because the biggest tomatoes came from the spots where the most potatoes were. This could be a coincidence but I'm also willing to consider that its not a coincidence. Maybe its worth the overlapping disease and insect pressure to prep. the area with potatoes ahead of the tomatoes.
The flipside would be that they do hurt the tomatoes so I could have grown even bigger tomatoes if I hadnt put the potaoes in. This is also a very legit possibility. Maybe both are true, that the potatoes help inoculate the soil with helpful biology but they also steal nutrients.
So... have the potatoes innoculate the soil, but dont let them steal any nutrients? (Or replace the nutrients by adding the extra bit of bone meal after the potatoes get dug out.) I'm thinking this could work!
I'm thinking its a good plan.
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