[Shieldsy]

Does anyone make their own 'Homebrew' for feeding tomatoes or aubergines? If yes what is the recipe :-) Or is the shop bought ones my best bet?

Also, I've read the thread on making Nettle tea but what other home made feeds can be made and how do I go about making it?

Any help/suggestion welcomed.

Cheers,

Shieldsy

[philskin]

When my old chap was alive ,he used to go over the fields and pick up sheep muck . Once he had a decent bag full ,he would then place it into a hessian sack tie the end and hang it in a spare water butt filled with water . This would be left a couple of weeks and then used for the feed ,dont know if its the correct thing to do but he used to have some lovely tommies     phil

[Eatyourgreens]

With my dad it was fresh horse muck but the system was the same, hessian sack/Onion bag, suspended in spare dustbin, I am tempted to do this again. In fact I am off to the garden to cut the top of a prop corn barrel as soon as the kettles boiled.



Bob

[Ivor Backache]

The soaking manures are a general fertiliser and can be used on any plants. Tomatoes need a high potassum content and you will not get that from just manure. You can get it from wood ash. Riddle out the charcoal bits and mix 2lbs in a 2 gallon bucket of water, and give it a good stir. You can use it with the manure solution.

OR; Go to Wilkinsons and buy a litre of their own solution for £2 which should last you throughout the season.

[David.]

The soaking manures are a general fertiliser and can be used on any plants. Tomatoes need a high potassum content and you will not get that from just manure. You can get it from wood ash. Riddle out the charcoal bits and mix 2lbs in a 2 gallon bucket of water, and give it a good stir. You can use it with the manure solution.

OR; Go to Wilkinsons and buy a litre of their own solution for £2 which should last you throughout the season.

I grow a vast amount of tomatoes, so a litre of Wilkos stuff would go nowhere, but I do buy some (when severly reduced) as feed to boost my show marrows' weights:



But for my tomato crop I use comfrey, seaweed and mulches to boost production, and grow a few more (saved seeds) than it would need to produce the same amount with bought fertilizers, and I also use loads of nettles for feeds: