Interesting ideas encountered under a search for “tomato fertilizer”

• Combine eggshells and human hair in a base of coffee grounds.
• Fertilize before planting.
• Fertilize after planting.
• Mulch with organic matter.
• Add fish emulsion or compost tea to the soil.
• Mix wood ash or bone ash into the soil.

What’s a gardener to do? Ah, readers, you know me. I always have a response or comment or just a smart remark. Define “smart” any way you wish, peoples. Let’s try that list again.

• Combine eggshells and human hair in a base of coffee grounds. I have all of these in abundance, but can I bear to save the potentially smelly mix indoors? Will it attract that *$#! raccoon if I store it outside?
• Fertilize before planting. Well, I did prep the soil for better drainage. 
• Fertilize after planting. I can do this. Might be worth a try.
• Mulch with organic matter. I used most of the available “organic matter” in prepping the soil. I could get more from the brush dump if I’m ambitious.
• Add fish emulsion or compost tea to the soil. Fish? Nope. No fish innards in our humble home where the men fish strictly catch and release. Compost tea? Now that I can make! The plants will drink, er, soak it up happily.
• Mix wood ash or bone ash into the soil. I prefer to add the fireplace waste to the compost itself, where it balances the pH of the organic matter. Did you like how I worked in the formal terms?