How do I Plant Tomatoes Using Bone Meal, Sugar and Epsom Salts?
Tomatoes will grow anywhere. They thrive in optimal growing conditions made possible with the addition of soil amendments. Soil amendments mixed in with the soil helps the tomato plants produce more fruit. Vegetable growers have learned that some soil additives help the plants produce a tomato low in acid content, firm to the touch and not overly juicy. Utilize soil amendments during planting time and enjoy some of the best-tasting tomatoes that ever decorated a sandwich. Dig a hole that is two-and-a-half times deeper than the root ball of the tomato plant and twice as wide as the root ball. This will give the plant plenty of room to spread and encourage the roots to grow in an outward direction. Drop 1 cup of bone meal and 1 cup of granulated sugar along with a shovel of mulch into the hole. Bone meal contains phosphorous that helps tomatoes grow and flower. Sugar granules break up and help offset the acidity of the fruit; they become absorbed into the tomato plant through its root sy
