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Topic: My tomato plants are grubbing fish parts.  (Read 400 times)

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DarthBaiter

  • Salmon
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  • Location: Sonoma County
  • Date Registered: Dec 2018
  • Posts: 900
First time burying carcasses and guts in my planter beds.  It was a cold wet winter and I buried parts early and deep to thwart the raccoons.   I allowed plenty of time for it all to decompose.  The soil was dark and mysterious.

Man. Hoping not to jinx myself, but my tomato plants are thick and healthy!  Deep green.  Growing fast.

Anyone doing this?  (Should have planted a pot-plant for science).



bogueYaker

  • Salmon
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  • Location: Back in Gerrymanderville, NC
  • Date Registered: Mar 2020
  • Posts: 102
Good looking 'maters!

I did this once and critters plundered the decomposing carcasses w/in a week, killing my crop in the process. But sounds like you planted the carcasses last Fall, so I imagine any plundering would have already happened by now.

Now I just throw carcasses in a bucket and let them decompose to a slurry, and then I use the slurry. Smells godawful but the plants don't mind and the unzoned airbnb next door has no grounds to complain :)


DarthBaiter

  • Salmon
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  • Location: Sonoma County
  • Date Registered: Dec 2018
  • Posts: 900
hahahahah....wow.  I know that smell so well. 


Fitzcarraldo

  • Salmon
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  • Location: Bodega Bay, CA
  • Date Registered: Jun 2025
  • Posts: 102
The tomatoes lives have been improved by the inclusion of fish. Me too, tomatoes, me too.
"...make the fish your food, do not become fish food" - Willy, via Lawson's Landing Fish Report