Home Grown Tomato, Vegetable & Herb Fertilizer, 4lb

Use this every year during the garden season. Gives the vegetable plants a good boost through the year. You can over do it though. Follow the instructions or you can over fertilize causing low fruit production with over grown plants that don’t produce.

I have been growing almost all of our veggies and herbs in our basement for over 6 years and have found that growing indoors provides challenges that are different than outdoor growing, When growing indoors, many of the potting soils that can be bought are sterilized to kill any unwanted insect, bacteria and fungal growths that may be in them. This is great to prevent these problems, but it also kill the microbial flora that is natural in outdoor soil. This microbial bacteria helps the plants to absorb the nutrients in the soil. I have been mixing Dr. Earth into the soil on plants I move to larger pots and plan to add it to established plants. So far, I have been seeing some good results, but I can't say the results are conclusive at this point. I have over 60 years experience in growing plants, and the theory of adding probiotics and mycorrhizae sounds promising when added to sterilized soil. I have added this supplement to a few of my plants and will update this review with results. I hope this review was helpful for you. Ecto and endo mycorrhizae are a fungi that have a symbiotic relationship with plants. The difference between the two fungi is: - Ectomycorrhizae is a fungi-plant symbiotic interaction. The fungus’s hyphae create a sheath around the exterior of the plant root and develop between the plant cells to exchange nutrients. - Endo mycorrhizae, on the other hand, refers to a symbiotic interaction between fungi and plants in which the fungus’s hyphae penetrate the cells of a plant root to exchange nutrients. What this all boils down to is that the plants supply nutrients for the fungi and the fungi make nutrients more available to the plants and enables the plants to absorb more nutrients.

Just what my basil needed! My basil plants in a container were yellowing and sprouting flowers - something that should be end of season? I added this fertilizer and with 1 day they were getting greener. After 1 week, they looked like new plants. After 2 weeks, I'm making pesto! I'm assuming now that the soil in the container was so low in nutrients the plants were making seeds in their last ditch effort before they expired. So this, and learning how to prune the basil (see YouTube videos for that), have turned my basil around. I also added this to my rosemary and thyme containers that had the same soil I used for the basil - they were doing OK but now they are thriving.

I;VE USED DR. EARTH FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND IT HAS A GOOD REPUTATION. I AM NOW TRYING SEVERAL COMPETITORS BECAUSE DR EARTH SELLS FOR SUCH A PREMIUM.

One week after an easy application of simply sprinkling on the ground with a measuring cup a few inches away from each plant to my entire vegetable garden (and watering it in), every last plant had had a remarkable growth spurt, far exceeding the progress that was achieved in the previous two months. The price is excellent for an organic product. So many “specialty” products for organic use are over priced and just don’t work.