VITAMINS FOR VEGETABLES

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Tomatoes grew best in B 100 , with B, and pantothenic acid trays close behind. The slowest tomato growth was with A, E and B 12 solutions.

Cauliflower grew best in B 100 vitamin mixture and next best in the E mixture. Pantothenic acid trays grew the slowest.

I was surprised to learn that Brussels sprouts grew better on plain water than on almost any of the vitamin solutions (the plants fed B 100 or C did grow slightly better than the plain-water ones).

I was especially surprised by the corn fed with E and B1.One day I noticed that the corn in the vitamin E tray grew two whole inches. I didn't think this was possible, so I measured it again the next day, and the same

thing happened. Corn in the vitamin B 12 tray grew more than one inch per day. The E and B 12 corn plants were more than twice as tall as the ones in the other trays.

All plants that were fed the seven-vitamin mix grew well.

Outdoor Crops

Next I decided to try vitamins in an outdoor garden. I made up my mind to test them on tomatoes, cabbages, cantaloupes and watermelons. I later added some squash and corn. I mixed all seven vitamins by crushing or boiling two capsules of each and then adding enough water to make a gallon of mix.

I set out 24 tomato plants. Every three days, I poured four ounces of the vitamin solution around the roots of each of 22 of these plants. The other two got only water. At the end of two weeks, the vitamin-fed plants were twice as large as the two fed only water. At the end of the first month, they were over three times as tall and thicker, bushier and healthier.

Then I stopped putting vitamin water on the first 22 plants and started giving it to the two smaller ones. Within two weeks the small plants had caught up with the others (the warmer weather may have helped some). For the rest of the summer, I fed all 24 tomato plants the vitamin food. Each plant stayed strong and healthy. The tomatoes were big and pretty. And they tasted great. (That's what my parents said. I don't like tomatoes.)

Most of the tomatoes were so big they weighed more than a pound. Some days I picked more than 100 pounds of tomatoes. My mother canned these to make spaghetti sauce (which I do like very much).

I fed my 30 cabbage plants the same way-- left two out of my vitamin feedings. At the end of the first month, the plants fed only on water were tiny and weak-looking, while all the others were strong. Then I started giving the weak ones vitamin plant food, too, and soon they caught up with the others.

Some of the cabbage plants were nearly a yard across (counting the outside leaves). The heads were 25 to 30 inches around and weighed from 10 to 15 pounds. The cabbage all tasted great (for cabbage).

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