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    Grandad's tomato technique. baaaa

    I was talking to my mother on the blower and she imparted some useful information. When she was a kid her dad used to send her up the hill to collect sheeps poohs.

    Nice job.

    Anyhow, this is going back quite some time - 1940's by my reckoning (sorry mum). Here's the wisdom;

    He'd sink a plant pot next to each tomato plant, into each would go a handful of small stones and a handful of sheeps poohs. He'd then water the plants through the pot.

    Apparently the other kids used to take the mickey out of my mum for collecting sheeps poohs and my grandad would console her with 'but their tomatoes are not a patch on ours are they?'

    I enjoyed the anecdote and might even collect some sheeps poohs to test it out!
    Excuse me, could we have an eel? You've got eels down your leg.
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    it's been said,that one of our past reletives kept a container of water in his green house,with sheeps poo in cloth,dangling in it,so it was ready feed for the tom's
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    • #3
      Dont know if this still happens ( health and safety ) but toms used to grow in and around the old sewage treatment works tells us two things one they pass through us and two they love ****
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      • #4
        Yes I've heard about the sewage works - my mum told me that too. She must have tomatoes and/or pooh on the brain
        Excuse me, could we have an eel? You've got eels down your leg.

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          my grandfather use to buy the compost bags that could fit 3 tommato plants. and stack two upon each other cutting away the top of the first one and the underneath of the top one then would only put two tommato plants in the top bag with the flower pot in the middle and would as you say water though the flower pot so the water gets down deep to the roots.also he would have a water butt outside his green house to collect water with womens tights in it full of horse poo.

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            I was told about the sewage works too. Thought Grandad was pulling my leg!! Still not too sure whether he was or not...
            Last edited by kirsty b; 04-04-2008, 12:10 AM.
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            • #7
              The sewage works thing (or wastewater treatment works as they call them now) is true, the ops guys eat them for their lunch sometimes (without washing most of the time.........)

              Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

              Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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              • #8
                I can see how that would work MrDinkle... I mean, it's a liquid tomato feed feed watering sesh isn't it?

                Fab idea. But no sheep near me to test it with. Hmmm.... wonder if I could try the same with chicken pellets?
                Shortie

                "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter

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                • #9
                  It's one of the oldest horticultural tricks in the book, I have an early 20th century gardening book in which this sort of thing is described. The better way of doing it is to get the sheeps 'daggins', the crappy wooly stuff from round their bum and do the same sort of thing, wool in sack, sack in water butt but make sure that you dilute the resulting liquid as it can be very strong.

                  Also Lawrence Hills of blessed memory described this in one of his first books on organic gardening.
                  TonyF, Dordogne 24220

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                  • #10
                    Do yo think you could do the same with fresh chicken poo? How long would you have to steep it in water before use do you think?
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                    • #11
                      Probably could use the chicken poop. Also comfrey leaves make a good liquid fertilizer - though very stinky and needs to be diluted apparently.
                      Excuse me, could we have an eel? You've got eels down your leg.

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