2009 Garden Vlog 3, Planting Tomatoes

I'm guessing everyone is tired by now of watching my plant tomatoes. I'll do something different next.

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[tinkygarden1878]

Yes, most off brands from WalMart you cannot trust.

Keep the awesome vids coming!

[Blinkazoid]

Anyhow the bottom line is I'm not buying any more bags of garden soil amendments from Wal-Mart except possibly for the bags of "Miracle Grow" brand which I do trust. Avoid the "Hyponex" brand like the plague.

[Blinkazoid]

But then I went back and bought one final bag of it and it did seem to be different. I'd say it does have some clay in it. I'm making some manure tea out of it and it doesn't even seem to have enough manure in it to get the tea to bubbling like it should. (Manure tea is where you put some manure in a bucket of water and stir it every day for a week and then pour it on your plants. This manure tea actually has a red appearance like clay would have although in the bag it does look grey. Cont.

[Blinkazoid]

I've bought two different bags of stuff at Wal-Mart this season. "Organic Humus And Maunure" (I can't remember the brand name) and "Hyponex Potting Soil"

The Hyponex Potting soil was not anywhere near fluffy enough to be called potting soil. It had NO peat and NO vermiculite in it as proper potting soil should. It was essentially useless as potting soil but was fairly dark with no clay that I could tell.

The first bunch of bags of "organic humus and manure" I bought seemed to be OK, Cont.

[tinkygarden1878]

Was the stuff you bought at Wal*Mart grey with a lot of clay? That is how mine was.

[Blinkazoid]

Thanks for the tip. Pretty much every bag of whatever I've bought at Wal-Mart recently has been pure crap.

[tinkygarden1878]

Today at Lowes Hardware, I picked up a couple bags of their cheap, $1.38 a bag composted humus and manure and it is great quality! It is very dark in color with no sand or rocks to mention. It is a really great product at a really great price. You might want to check it out.

Great vids!

[Blinkazoid]

Thanks tinky! Yeah, I always try to add *something* to the soil directly where I plant stuff. Last year I used some of this same Walmart "Organic Humus and Manure" to make manure tea to put on my veggies. What wound up being left over in the bottom of my bucket when I finished pouring the tea off of it several times was several handfuls of sand. It didn't have any gravel in it. So I guess the gravel is a variable thing.

[tinkygarden1878]

I tell you what, I mixed in a few handfulls of that cheap manure from Wal*Mart with the soil around my maters this year, and what a difference it makes! Because it is "Cheap" it contains some burnt wood. That burnt wood supplies the tomatoes with extra potassium, Potash, and other nutrients that are very benificial to tomatoes. The only thing I do not like about that cheap manure is the gravel in it.

Love the vids!

[BirdOfParadise777]

Thank you for answering so quickly:)

BOP