The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener Straight To The Point a new short series giving great information to help everyone to be better in the garden and home.
Joey shows how and why to use Epsom salt in the garden, especially when planting tomatoes.
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good job.
Question, I noticed you spreading it around the plants, can you mix it in with the soil? Or, would doing that decrease it's usefulness!?
We learned our lesson last year, had lots of blossom end rot, will need to remember this for this year's!
Good video & thanks for posting. Could you direct me to any science-based field trials about this?
Thank you for your respond back
Is all Epsom same there's one for bath and one for garden?
I'm wondering if will help with the gophers too. Go Packers
How often would you use to control slugs? We have an AWFUL infestation of the things!
COOL IDEA
Thank you
It really helps with blossom end rot. I started watering in epsom and azomite when I watered my toms, and no more blossom rot.
maybe magnesium sulphate extracted from the salt, but that is a process on how to produce as crop fertilizer.
Thanks for a clear reply John, as seen I am beside raw salt in high pile for export as de-icing, and I am a salt exporter from Egypt, while I know salt is harming the plants, when some infos from herein mentioned EPSOM salt as seems useful for plant grow…Clear… it is NOT.
EPSOM salts – MgSO4 = magnesium sulfate where table salt is NaCl = sodium chloride. Table salt / sodium chloride is used as a plant killer and there is no beneficial way to use it on your desired plants.
Oh yes. It improves photosynthesis and greens the plant up.
Do you think Epsom salt has additives that will be useful for the plants, as I consider salt for food and cooking, while calcium and magnesium extracted from raw salt are of so many uses.
Glad to be of service.
Good suggestion. I planted 7 big boy bush tomatoes today and sprinkled some around them.. We will see if I makes a difference. Thanks!
Thanks! I have seen Bittersalz. I didn't think about Google translate. I gave up on it a while back because I do speak German fairly well, or so they say, and google translate kept giving me really messed up translations for conversations. Guess that's the difference between a direct translation for a word and trying to translate a conversation where one must understand a bit of the way of thinking to understand well.