Secret Tip: How My Container Tomato Will Make Guaranteed Harvest

What with all the frantic container tomato garden activity going on right now, I’m sure sure you’re as busy as me at this fine time of year. A few friends (and one or two customers – that means you too, Jim!) are getting worried about what tomato dirt to use for their upside down garden.

I’m going to share my Top Secret Recipe with you!

The ‘hanging tomato basket’ is what I mean – although you can use the following advice just fine for regular container garden, without it having to be an upside down one.

The main thing I’ve found with growing tomato plants is that success does depend very much on your locality, and how and where you ‘plant out’ – but that’s for another blog post, not now.

Get your tomato dirt just right, and the rest, God willing, will be easy!

The recipes I give in my book are based on my own years of experience, and are tuned towards the “standard” five gallon bucket (for my container tomato). However, a lot of folks found the main recipe (My Secret Dirt Recipe) a bit too vague – and want ounce-for-ounce, measure-for-measure version.

Sure thing!

Until I get my web boys to fix up some fancy graphics, the following simple table will have to do.

I use a 33.8fl plastic bottle (Sam’s Choice: Clear American Wild Cherry Water, 33.8 fl oz, from Walmart’s, it’s just so yummmy!), and I cut the top off, just where it starts to narrow.
Discarding the top, I use the rest of the bottle as my ’scoop’.

For a 5-Gallon bucket for my upside down tomato garden, I use:

8 scoops of compost
7 scoops of peat moss
1 scoop of soil-moist
8 scoops of Perlite (or you can use my styrofoam trick)

I also add a little grow brew to each mix, full details of my preferred method are in my book (or maybe I’ll reveal it here in another post, hmm?)

So, if you’re planting a whopper in a 50-gal container, just multiply the above by 10, i.e.

80 scoops of compost
70 scoops of peat moss
10 scoops of soil-moist
80 scoops of Perlite

This gives you a perfect growing medium for your tomato plants,
one that has allowed me to out-perform all my neighbors – and get this:

Every year for over ten years!

Yowser!

That’s enough bragging for now.
If you want to be bragging too this Harvest time, swing by my book page (click the banner near the top of this post) and look see if you think I might be able to help you on your way this year.

But whatever you do,
Enjoy Your Gardening!

Karen
PS. Please add your comments below, and I’ll answer them as best I can (I’m having problems with answering directly via email presently)

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