Even self-proclaimed tomato haters still love cherry tomatoes. After all, they taste like candy. I can pop 20 in my mouth in one sitting. Sometimes cherry tomatoes are dinner.
But no one wants to grow a couple of scraggly cherry tomato plants and reap only a few wimpy tomatoes.
Each year my goal is to grow huge plants because I know those bigger sized plants are going to yield more crop. More stems equal more yellow flowers for more fruit.
And don’t think just because cherry tomatoes are smaller than other commonly grown varieties such as the big boy, brandywine, or beefsteak tomato that the actual plant won’t get as big or need as much support.
Follow the below instructions and your cherry tomato plants will get humongous like mine and yield an incredible crop of the sweetest and best tasting cherry tomatoes you’ve ever had.
But how does one grow huge plants for a super surplus of cherry tomatoes?
Here’s my winning secret formula.
It begins with the seed or starter plant….
I’ve successfully grown humongous cherry tomato plants from both starter plants and from seed.
But inferior plants will underperform. I bought plants from a garden nursery unfamiliar to me one year. Big mistake. The plants never grew.
No matter how much fertilizer I added, they just sat in the ground and did nothing. I only got a handful of cherry tomatoes per plant.
If you use starter plants, choose wisely. It’s better to buy plants that are smaller with no defects than bigger plants that have become scraggly.
You also don’t want any yellow or orange discoloring on the leaves or stem, especially the lower leaves. Spot black dots on the leaves? Run.
Even better is starting your own cherry tomato plants from seed. I agree~ seeds are more effort but worth it.
Not only do you get more control and can choose seeds specifically designed for your gardening zone, but they almost always overtake starter plants in size and volume, even ones planted months before!
Cherry tomato plants started from good, quality seed quickly turn into big, beefy plants with lots of flowers. Flowers that turn into scrumptious cherry tomatoes.
Insider tip: Cherry tomatoes are the first thing most garden centers sell out of in the spring ~ get yours before they are gone!
The fish heads….they’re back!
I do see the irony here. Using fish heads (of all things….gasp) for tastier and bigger tomatoes.
When I starting burying fish heads with my tomatoes, not only were my cherry tomatoes a good size, but the taste was out of this world. A super sweet party in your mouth.
Fish heads are your secret weapon for growing the sweetest and tastiest cherry tomatoes on the block. Fresh or frozen work equally well. But I like to freeze them first because it cuts down on smell.
Fish heads are for real. They’ve been used as natural fertilizer for centuries all over the world. As a matter of fact, the American Indian Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to sow seeds with a small fish.
Raw fish decays quickly in the ground, releasing nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, and trace minerals to roots that quickly get absorbed. Tomatoes are heavy feeders and especially thrive on phosphorus and calcium.
So fish heads are a quick release fertilizer that feed the soil that feeds your plants encouraging massive plant growth and fruit production.
Now Tom loves fishing on Lake Ontario for king salmon or heading to Lake Erie for Walleye. When he’s done filleting them, there’s plenty of fish heads and fish remains to bury in our garden. All the parts are put to good use.
Fish heads, guts and bones all work well as an organic fertilizer. All should go right in your planting hole with the other amendments for the sweetest and best tasting cherry tomatoes.
Plant those fish heads deep for the sweetest and best tasting tomatoes….
If you’ve already planted your crop, it’s not too late as you still bury fish heads and other parts in between crop rows to fertilize the soil.
Don’t fish? Have a friend who does? After a few weird looks, any fisherman would be happy to provide you with their fish heads and other fishy remains for your garden. Take a trip to the local dock and see what the days catch is.
Or call your favorite local mom and pop restaurant or grocery store to ask for their fish head parts. Farmers markets are a great place to inquire as well.
If you are burying your fish heads with your plants make sure that hole is extra deep to make room for that thick fish head. Depending on the size of your plants, you may have to plant them 2-3 feet deep.
Your hole might have to be dug 3-3.5 feet deep to fit in the fish head first depending on how big your starter plants are.
Deep is also vital since you want to avoid having your fish heads dug up by the local rat, raccoon, fox or feral cat. It’s never happened to me and I live in a subdivision on a 1/2 acre lot. Plenty of wildlife out there.
But as frugal and organic gardeners, we value resourcefulness, and free fish heads are key!
Other amendments to consider to rev up your tomatoes
I can’t say it enough. Tomatoes are heavy feeders. They want it all!
So after my fish heads are settled in I add roughly 1/2 cup of fertilizer specially formulated for tomatoes. I Use Dr. Earth because it’s safe for people and pets.
For an extra nitrogen splurge I sprinkle in a bit of blood meal. A little goes a long way.
I also add bone meal for an organic source of phosphorus and calcium. Double the amount of bone meal to blood meal. Bone is another excellent source of calcium.
A scoop of worm casings (yes we are referring to worm poop) is always thrown into the hole or used as a topdressing because worm poop is the gardeners gold.
Whenever I have coffee grounds, I also toss those in. Worms love coffee grounds and your garden loves worms. See how this works?
While adding organic nutrients isn’t an exact recipe, you do want to be careful not to add too much. Too much of anything is bad and you could burn your plants, or worse, kill them.
For this reason, cheap measuring cups from the Dollar Store are ideal for adding your amendments and I toss in roughly 1/2 cup of each.
Last, for a last big calcium boost I sprinkle crushed eggshells in the hole and also as a topdressing after I’ve filled my holes with soil.
Eggshells also help tomato plants fight blossom-end rot. Be mindful that eggshells don’t break down well on their own so using your hands to crumble them first is smart.
Crushed eggshells also act as a mechanical barrier to soft-bodied pests like slugs.
How to position your tomato plant ~ always in full sun!
After all my amendments are added, I pour one gallon of water directly into the hole.
I snag my first plant and pinch off all the lower leaves, those tend to get buried anyhow and sap strength from the plant.
Gently, I loosen the root ball by untangling the roots giving them a headstart in life. This can be an especially vital step if you are using nursery starter plants which tend to be slightly root-bound.
It might sound silly, but double check that your plant is upright as you don’t want your plant growing crooked.
Then I backfill the whole with soil and water again.
The soil line should be right at the last set of leaves; the rest of the stem gets buried, as new roots will grow from any part of the stem below ground.
Finally, full sun is essential. In my experience, you can’t get sweet tomatoes without full fun. I’m talking about at least 8 hours of full sun and longer if possible.
That’s how much tomatoes love sun as the sun brings out their natural sugars for the sweetest and best tasting cherry tomatoes.
Plant those tomatoes deep & stake all plants
Just because cherry tomatoes are small doesn’t means that the plants don’t need to be as deeply rooted as any bigger variety. Cherry tomatoes plants will get just as beefy and tall as full-sized slicing tomato plants.
But when you grow big and beefy plants, they’ll need ample support so that plant doesn’t plop over before you can harvest. Heavy stems loaded with tomatoes can also break off the plant if you neglect to stake.
It’s vital to stake or cage all plants in full sun far enough apart so they can’t grow into each other. Not only is it easier to harvest, but vital to avoid disease.
Solid air circulation and plenty of light encourage more disease-resistant plants that have the energy to produce more flowers.
So as a bare minimum, you’ll need 2 feet in between plants. But my plants get so tall (as in 5 feet and taller in size) that they require 3-4 feet spacing to provide adequate air circulation.
Starter plants or the ones you planted from seed seem so small, but I assure you, they each need their own cage or stake and plenty of room to roam.
Soil density and composition is vital for the sweetest & best tasting cherry tomatoes
Nothing is more important for gardening success than the soil, so choose carefully. Tomatoes like a light, well-drained soil.
The perfect soil will stick together when you squeeze it in a fist and then easily crumble away when you open your hand.
Clay soil like the kind we have in Western New York can restrict water and air circulation to tomato roots which can lead to blossom end rot.
We order topsoil and add amendments to adjust it. Keep in mind that tomatoes prefer slightly acidic soil but will tolerate a pH of up to 7.5.
Buying garden soil is complicated. Be wary. Many product labeled “topsoil” are poor quality, heavy, or weedy.
Go to a professional, local, trusted source rather than the corner store with a pop-up stand of soil bags. Ask experts in respected garden centers.
You can use professional potting mixes- ideal for container planting but less so in the garden. Potting mixes are almost always too light for most raised bed gardening.
One option is to mix in some compost-rich garden soil to thicken it up.
Compost is also very important
After the previous years plants have been raked under we start by adding compost to the empty garden bed. I like 4-5 inches of well-aged compost for each of my three raised beds.
Compost is cheap enough to buy bagged. We order locally by the trailer and it’s only about $40 a big load.
We also add a few bags of rotted manure. (Doesn’t that sound and smell so pleasant?) We pass a horse farm on the way to the lake and they are always advertising free horse poop. Rescue horse poop at that! Tom got me a trailer.
Also, if we have any chopped and decomposing leaves from the fall we also add those to the top.
Last, on top of the compost, manure and leaf mold, I apply a granular, organic, all-purpose fertilizer that includes N-P-K, or nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium.
On the very top I sprinkle kelp meal to help the beds retain moisture and crab and lobster shells to top dress for a magnesium and calcium boost. I mix the top dressed amendments into the soil as best I can with my hands or a small rake.
Speaking of fertilizer ~ strike the right balance…
It’s all about balance. Nitrogen feeds foliage growth but at the expense of flowers. Phosphorus encourages flowering. So you need a fertilizer that targets tomatoes specifically and apply as directed.
Don’t over-fertilize.
Tomatoes are called heavy feeders; that is, they require a lot of nutrients to flourish. They’re wild about fertilizer and before you even think about growing tomatoes, you should think about “growing” your soil first.
Tomatoes like rich, amended soil teeming with worms and microbes.
Two key nutrients must be present for tomatoes to thrive: phosphorus, which promotes the growth of flowers and fruit, and calcium, which prevents blossom end rot (that dreaded black sunken hole on the flower end of your calcium-deficient tomatoes).
Providing these nutrients right from the start ensures you’ll grow tall, beautiful, healthy plants laden with juicy tomatoes that are sure to be the envy of all your neighbors.
To a lesser extent, tomato plants also need nitrogen, but too much nitrogen could result in a big, bushy, and green tomato plant with no flowers.
Don’t hold back on the water for the sweetest & best tasting cherry tomatoes
I grew up working on a produce farm all through my teenage years. And we were told daily to never neglect watering the corn. Corn that doesn’t get enough water won’t be sweet.
The same rule applies to tomatoes. You must water thoroughly and deeply, especially that first month. And you can accuse me of many things, but I have never overwatered a tomato!
Tomatoes are like sponges, they soak up water. Deep waterings are best where even the lowest roots get to absorb all the water they require.
To make sure my plants get a good soak to start their new life, when I plant, I pour a gallon of water right in the hole to ensure those roots have a solid sendoff. Then I backfill the hole with the soil and say a little prayer!
Be mindful, you might have to water every day, morning and night to make sure the plants are getting enough water that first month. A drip irrigation system on a timer makes sense.
Drip irrigation is also convenient because while tomato roots require tons of water, their leaves dislike getting wet. So it keeps the water at the base of the plant where needed.
Water in the cool of the morning and at dusk to avoid evaporation from the suns rays.
Use aspirin to ward off disease in tomato plants
When we feel symptomatic, we might take elderberry or zinc to fend off the infection.
But what does a tomato plant do to ward off bad microbes? I’m talking about leaf spot and blight and possibly even the dreaded blossom-end rot. The tomato plant takes an aspirin. It’s true!
Aspirin contains salicylic acid, a chemical compound that’s naturally present in most plants. And yes, we’re talking about the same aspirin you or I would buy and at the local pharmacy.
Studies have found that in a tomato plant, salicylic acid (a plant hormone) is produced at high levels in response to a microbial attack on the plant.
Since salicylic acid triggers the plant’s defense system, I like to give my plants a little immunity boost prior by putting two aspirin in my planting hole with the other amendments to ward off fungi, bacteria and viruses.
If you wish, you can also make a foliar spray, by dissolving a regular-strength aspirin tablet (325 mg) in a gallon-size sprayer or watering can. Spray all the leaves two times a month making sure you don’t miss the undersides.
Uncoated aspirin dissolves easier. Go for the cheapest aspirin, brand names are unnecessary.
Tomato testimony for my sweetest & best tasting cherry tomatoes
I gave one of my neighbors last year a sample of my excess cherry tomato crop. Literally every time she drove past my house she had to stop me to tell me how they were the sweetest and best tasting cherry tomatoes ever.
She went on to say how different they were from grocery store tomatoes. Night and day different. Those bland, lackluster grocery store tomatoes. Zero flavor.
Tomatoes as they surely would have tasted in the Garden of Eden. My head was getting a little big from all the praise!
It goes without saying that the riper the tomato is, the sweeter the taste. The ripening process brings out the natural sugars.
This is why I leave my green peppers on the vine until they turn red. Oh so sweet! Ditto for tomatoes. Leave them on the vine until they are a deep red hue.
A note on tomato variety
For me, this isn’t the time to take a risk on a tomato you aren’t familiar with. Go with the tried and true.
Whether purchasing starter plants or starting from seed, go with something traditional like the Super Sweet 100 for a foolproof garden.
Fantastic advice Laura. My tomato plant gave us an abundance this year but it’s planted too far forward. When it dies back I will trim it and replant. And use this post to guide me.
I love your research, directions, soil amendment recommendations, and anecdotes. Plus, I’ll put Super Sweet 100s on my husband’s list of favored cherry tomato varieties! Thank you for the suggestions for successfully growing tomatoes! 🙂
I love cherry tomatoes and great tips for a great garden
How-to grow the sweetest and best tasting cherry tomatoes using fish heads sounds wonderful and Amazing!! Thank You for the tips!
Flowers are endless delights.
Great tips and ideas!
A lot of different ideas I was not aware of.
I always have plenty of fish heads available! Thank you for sharing this. Now..just gotta keep the cast from digging them up! Lol
thanks for the awesome advice!
Nice advise
Great tips!
Yes I use fish heads and entrails in my garden. The Native Americans use them when they plant their corn for years.
great info, thank you
Thank you for all of the tips. Purchased my 1st home a month ago and get to do some gardening this year!
I love my tomatoes with a little tangy. Thank you for the advice
Yum, tomatoes
This is great information will share it with my DIL. She starting a garden
great
Fish heads in the garden?! I would never have guess. Thanks for the info.
Thank you for so much information. Can’t wait to try this 😍
Very interesting!
There is nothing better tasting and more rewarding than growing your own tomatos!
Plant biology and chemistry is absolutely amazing. And I LOVE me some cherry tomatoes. Due to health problems, it doesn’t look like ai am going to be able to plant much of anything this year. But I still love reading here about all of your garden success.
No offense but yuck fish heads and we don’t like tomatoes 🍅 but good luck to everyone and enjoy your cherry tomatoes
my grandma does this and her tomatoes are the best
I need all the growth information I can find thanks
great advice
Reminds me of Squanto from my history book!!
These are some great tips! I love cherry tomatoes, especially picked right from the plant! Our daughter’s aren’t huge fans of tomatoes in general but they do like cherry tomatoes.
Found your tips very helpful and enlightening but the fish suggestion was a shock. Not sure my wife will let me try that as our garden is close to our kitchen window.
I knew fish heads made them grow bigger, didn’t know it made them sweeter… Interesting
So many interesting facts. Had know idea growing could be so complex. Thanks for sharing!
Great tips as we begin to renovate our backyard!
Wow I didn’t know there was so much work involved in growing cherry tomatoes. I will pass this info onto my husband, he does all of our garden work. I’m ready for some yummy cherry tomatoes…..
they are good for snacks and in salads!
Love growing tomatoes! Cherry tomatoes are great. So many from one plant.
Nothing taste better than a homegrown tomato! My mother grew them every year.
Thanks for all the great tips.
I did not know this! I’ve never had much luck growing veggies! I will try this with tomatoes!
Great article as always. Indians have used fish for growing things hundreds of years.
I have heard that fish heads was good for the garden but have not tried it yet.
Thanks for sharing with us.
I grow cherry tomatoes every year. My favorite are golden globe, they are so small and sweet. Perfect for just poppin in the mouth! 🙂
These are great tips for growing best tasting tomatoes!
Good tips, I have to do containers for plants.
Thanks! I just planted tomato seeds today!
thankyou for the great tips appreciate it
These are great tips! I had no idea so much was involved in planting the best tasting cherry tomatoes. I am always looking for ideas to help hubby and I with our gardening. We give it a try every year. Nothing better than fresh veggies!!
Thank you for the great suggestions
I grow the best NJ tomatoes for BLTs.
I have never tried this. Thanks for sharing and letting us know how to do this.
Thanks for the great info.
Great article! Count me in with the fish heads! 🙂
Great and interesting tips!
All my tomatoes are grown in containers. Great tips
I love reading your website!
My buddy’s mom would have us bury our fish leftovers from cleaning the catch in her garden.
I had a friend who used to bury fish heads near his tomato plants and I always wondered why.. Thanks for this article. Very interesting.
My Dad used to do this with some leftover bait after fishing. Thank you for reminding me of this.
I love cherry tomatoes! I love popping those little red babies into my mouth and biting into them making them squish all over the inside of my mouth!! I had no idea what went into growing these little red fruits!! I haven’t done any gardening in years! Sickness has stopped me. I did use worms.
My husband and his buddies would buy a cup full and use them for bait while fishing. He brought the ones they didn’t use home. I would put them in the fresh dirt I had for gardening. I learned a long time ago about soaking broken egg shells in water. Once a month I would use this concoction to water my plants 🪴 I used water them more with it, but as you know rotten eggs don’t smell delightful!! I would keep the jar they were soaking in on our Bach porch. Then I would water my plants with the egg water and then water them a couple of days later with fresh water to kind of flush the smelly egg water down.
I have beautiful house plants! That have been with me for years!
Great tips and info!
I love this, I did not eve think about fish heads, thanks a lot for the information
You always have wonderful info!!!
wow never thought of this. Thanks for the tips!
I don’t have a green thumb but I want to try. Thanks for the help and tips.
A lot of informative information, I would have never thought to use fish heads, but you can be sure I will be trying with my tomato plants.
I knew about some of your tips but I had never heard about the aspirin both in ground and used as a spray! Definitely going to use this tip.
I need to find a fisherman so I can get fish heads!
Great tips! Thanks!
Love to learn more from you
Great tips
My Grandparents used fish heads on their plant farm. I am happy you are spreading the word about natural fertilizers the taste of all my garden plants improves the more I learn about the natural way.
Excellent tips. I never heard of using fish in your garden. Great to know!
Love this site.
Very informative and interesting! No wonder our cherry tomatoes don’t do well! Thank you 💕
Interesting article. Thanks for the info. Wonderful tips.
I miss gardening back in the Philippines!
Awesome tips. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent tips. Thanks for sharing.
Great giveaways! I like them all! Good information in articles, too!
Love the tips and tricks on your posts!
Thanks for the tips you never fail to have good advice .
well now I know why I am not having luck with my tomatoes, I guess I need to feed them!!
My husband LOVES tomatoes! Thank you for the advice!
Great tips. I will be starting my garden next month and your tips will definitely be used.
Love this idea
I wish I could grow things but have no luck since moving to Texas! Thanks.
So excited to use this wonderful product❣️
Good to have new knowledge about how to help grow.. can’t wait to see what else I’ll learn…
Thank you for all the advice! I cannot wait to plant my tomatoes soon!
We are going to try again planting this year. Thanks for the advise.
Thanks for the great info. It is very useful for my garden.
From the looks of your plants all of your tips must be working. They must taste amazing
Great article, you look so cute planting your tomato
awesome
Back in the day, we would bury fish heads with our rose bushes. We never realized that they benefit tomatoes also.
These daisy lights are adorable and I definitely want to have them for our front flower bed.
many great tips! Thanks!
Fish heads and tomatoes – who would have thunk it?!?
These look so delicious. I miss my garden so much. Can’t have a garden anymore because of
where I live.
Thank you for the tips. I’ve never heard of any of them so excited to try them out. Currently have tomato cuttings that I’m looking to root and then plant outside.
Thank you for all this great information!! I just planted 5 tomato plants and these tips will definitely be helpful!
My favorite snacking tomato!
Very interesting. Thank you for the useful information!
I love cherry tomatoes and we grow them every year, its just nice to have fresh veggies on hand!
Thank You for the great advice…I’m glad I haven’t planted my tomatoes, were getting a lot of cold weather here in Texas and that is absolutely unheard of this time of year.
I love these tomato’s! Thanks for the great tips!!
The very fact that people need to be retaught that fish (heads or otherwise) are good fertilizer just proves that learning about history is more than dates and wars!
Good tips. Covered my tomato plants but 4 inches of snow and cold may have killed them.
My husband is a big fan of cherry tomatoes and we always purchase them. I would love to grow them myself.
Love tomatoes for dinner!
pick me to win
Oh my, so much great information. Most I was familiar with but the fish heads is new to me. I can’t wait to share this with my dad! Hoping for a bumper crop of tomatoes this year!
So much useful information I didn’t know! I’ve always wanted to grow cherry tomatoes. Thanks for sharing this great guide!
With all these tips, we’re sure to have the best crop of tasty tomatoes. Thanks
Love all these great tips hopefully this will help us to have more success this year with our garden.
After reading this article, I now think that the reason why my tomatoes haven’t done well is because I didn’t have very good starter plants to begin with. I always thought starter plants were better than using seeds to start with. I also like the tip about using eggshells as a mechanical barrier for soft-bodied pests.
Will keep this in mind for the garden.
Awesome tips. Thanks for sharing and I am going to share these ideas with my family as well. We love growing and eating tomotoes.
I love those tomatoes, too! No gardening for me – I go to the farmer’s market, but reading about growing them was very interesting!
There is a lot of information I was not aware of. I have a veggie garden every year. Everything tastes better when it is “homegrown”!
Thank you for the helpful info
I wish I had more time to garden!
Thank you for the tip about adding an aspirin or two to my tomato plants!
My brother tried burying an egg with the tree he planted & something kept digging it up. He thinks it was a skunk. Any tips on how to keep animals from digging up the plant if you add an egg or fish head? I believe in using these, but it’s been hard replanting each time something is dug up.
I have never had much luck with growing tomato plants in my clay heavy ground. I put in two PVC tubes 24 inches long x2 inches in diameter with about 24- 1/4 inch holes in them. Six inches extend above ground. In each hole I put 1 fish remains, 5 dissolved aspirin, a dusting of bone meal, 10 crushed egg shells, a dusting of tomato fertilizer and 2 healthy shovelfuls of aged cow manure. I planted 4 tomato plants around each tube and I planted 2 test plants three feet away from them. WOW! The 8 PVC tomato plants are six feet tall. The 2 test plants are maybe two feet tall. Both groups grew healthy tomatoes. The PVC plants are far more vigorous, have more tomatoes growing and have more budding flowers that continue to grow. I water mostly through the PVC pipes but I do water the ground surface too. They taste great too. I am a believer in this method now. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
It is too hard to find the code word with that popup!
I have returned to share my tips for award winning roses .. always prune so the shrub’s sprouts grow outward so the shrub has good air circulation. Fertilize with a combination of eggshells, coffee grinds and … BANANA peels. You can bury whole for a time released effect or in large chunks
I can’t wait for gardening season to start!!!
I finally have a yard big enough to have a garden and tomatoes are a must. This information is great and definitely going to try. The only problem is my 11 year old will eat the tomatoes off the plants as soon as they ripen and I’m talking all of them
so many ways to do it right
I will definitely use the aspirin tip for my tomatoes this year.
I grow cherry tomatoes every year. I know they are fresh from the vine to my table.
I need new planters for my tomatoes as my old one fell apart.
Love tomatoes! Thanks for the great tips
Very interesting! Thanks for the ideas!
love your blogs
I love this blog. It has so many useful tips.
thanks for the information
I can’t wait to try this trick this year!
Great tips! Thank you!
It’s time to get the garden ready to plant. So many great ideas and tips in your article! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing some great tips. My family loves tomatoes!!
Interesting!! This article is a keeper. Thanks for all the info.
great tips, wish I had these when I used to vegetable garden.
Tell your hubby he should be cutting those walleye cheeks out.
Cherry tomatoes are the bomb and they volounteer in my garden most years. I don’t even have to plant them.
Lots of great info in this article. We love cherry tomatoes and my shelties go crazy for them. Everyone is always baffled by how much my dogs love tomatoes. Last couple years, I found a variety that works very well for my sandy coastal NC soil and it grew and grew and grew, I ended up supporting it with a huge trellis and the single plant produced like crazy well past the normal growing season. So many people fail with tomato plants, hope you have lots of followers who have as much success as you and I do after reading and implementing the stuff in your post.
We don’t have sandy soil up north, but clay soil. And it’s the worst! So if I don’t add ammendments like fish heads, nothing will grow!
Fish heads. Who knew!
I found this site just a short while ago and am so glad that I did. Get info – very interesting and an easy read. Thank you.
Thank you for the advice
I have to try eggshells for slugs problem.
Thanks for the tips! I will put these to use. I love cherry tomatoes!
Holy cow…fish heads?! That is wild but sound very promising. The only issue is our curious, active husky mix. She would LOVE The fish heads! lol
I can’t wait to try these tips on my new tomato plants I’m going to be planting soon. I had no idea adding these could really help them with their development. We love eating tomatoes year round .
Cherry tomatoes are so delicious. I am the only person in my house that enjoys them…so I guess more for me.
yum winner
I have just started growing my garden. I will have to try this, I love my tomatoes.
Really great tips. I can grow cherry tomatoes now.
I have used fish emulsion for years, and have tried whole fish I caught. Al have been a HUGE help in goriwng my favorite crop…tomatoes!
I love tomatoes!
I am going to try some gardening this year for the first time. Thanks for hosting.
they would be put to good use here.
Wow fish heads lol never knew
I like all of your great ideals for raising a successful vibrant garden.
Would love to be able to grow these
Love these ideas. I never heard of most of them.
I love having tomatoes in our garden! Thanks for the tips.
Great tips. Wrong tomato. Too small to mess with for me. I grow regular size tomatoes. Yep, I’m different.
Wow I will have to try this, my husband loves cherry tomatoes.
The first picture is beautiful, to see the different stages of development. Really makes a person want to learn how to grow those little beauties.
Raised gardening is the only way I garden and manage to bring in a cop of two each season.
aspirin… wow
I get the concept behind this tip but I don’t think I could do it. My dog would definitely start digging.
Great tips. Thank you
My favorite snacking tomato.
These tomatoes look very tasty. Thanks for sharing!
A very informative article, Thank you!
Classy and and stylish ! These would like great for my flowers on my patio. Very pretty
This is a great tip! Our cherry tomato’s from last year weren’t very tasty. If anyone in our family goes fishing, we’ll have to give this a try.
Whenever my buddy and I would get a good haul of fish, his mom would have us bury the remains in her garden after we fileted them.
Thank you for the great tips. Being in south Louisiana, the heat can be very rough on vegetable and flower gardens
Great article and tips. Thanks for sharing.
I’m ready to try and get this big crop of little tomatoes
The fish heads sound very interesting. Any idea if fish emulsion would work in a similar way?
Yes! And that’s what I’m using this year because my husband has been too busy to fish, LOL!
These are good ideas.
I’ll have to try this soon! Who knew???!!? Fish heads peeeew, but I’ll try it! Love tomatoes!