Using Epsom salts in the garden is a given...right? I mean it does so many things. Right? In this video I will show you why these claims are false and you shouldn't waste your money on Epsom salts.
As always on point, Brian. I used Epsom Salt once as a spray on my cucumbers for powdery mildew. I've found baking soda spray much more effective for this. Love these short, to the point, videos. Thanks again.
@@michellemorrison3938 The recipe from my Jerry Baker "Backyard Problem Solver" book says: 4T Baking soda, 2T Murphy's Oil Soap, 1 gal water, combine, put in spray bottle and mist the plant. You can even use it before mildew starts, as a preventative. I've used it on my peas (as a preventative) which get powdery mildew EVERY year and it worked great!
I received my companion planting book just 2 days ago. And I'm loving it!! The pictures, wording, allll of it. I plan to implement it this next season. Thank you!
I grow the biggest peppers one that has ever seen when I use epsom salt, so whatever you say will not change my mind about using. Wish I had pictures from last year’s harvest. You won’t believe the size
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom. I'm having the best garden ever in my 40 years of gardening here in Kansas. I have been using all the products you recommend and the different foliar sprays. I only had 2 cabbage worms this year, no squash vine borers and no squash bugs, but have had a lot of pollinators and probably other good bugs that I don't see. I love your book and your videos. Thank you again.
I use Epsom salts on my lemon tree along with blood and bone, one teaspoon in a litre of water once a month, I’ve never had more lemons than since I tried this.
It's a great way to spend alot of your life, but, you're right Brian, it is just gardening! :O) Science and empirical evidence say it all. Good to see you have such a great sense of humour around the people who think they've got all and only answers to just about anything you can name. Keep it all coming!
Miracle Grow is just chemicals. Good for flowers and plants, but not for food. I followed your instructions for tomato and pepper plants, with great results!
I agree with you 100%. I never use Epsom salt. Right now my Roma’s are getting some BER. I’m headed out to buy some pelleted lime. Any wisdom from your experiences? I know people tell you this all the time but your videos have really helped me. Thank you.
Brian, I'm so sad to hear unkind things said to you. You work hard to bring so much knowledge and and help to us! Don't let it get you down! You have SO many who love you!! 😀❤
I am sure blossom end rot is down to the variety. A local primary school raised and sold tomato plants to raise funds. All their own plants and the plants they sold had blossom end rot on the first fruits but quickly grew out of it, producing good fruit later. Out of the 50 tomato plants i have growing here, the two plants that had blossom end rot were the plants I bought from the school.
I do appreciate the video. Everyone is looking for a quick fix, yes, me included. I have dealt with palm and plants in Florida foe 27 years. I see people try EVERYTHING. The first thing I do is “test the soil” when you get the results, which is easy these days, your solution should be an easy one.. but testing the soil seems to be out of everyone’s wheelhouse. Test your soil…. Then come back to you tube and your solution will be there.. stop throwing the kitchen sink at everything.. that will result in dead plants and trees..
I had a big problem with grubs two years ago. Last year, when I was refreshing my containers (they're fairly large tubs, idk the gallon size... Maybe like 18 gal?) I tossed a handful of Epsom salt into a few of them with the crab and lobster and kelp mixes. I'd seen mixed info regarding Epsom salt, and decided "What the heck? YOLO!" This year, when I turned the soil out of the container to refresh it, I found not a single grub. Could be coincidence, idk. I'm gonna do it again this season, and we'll see how everything grows, and whether or not there are grubs next year.
I use ES in small amounts twice during the growing season. It is always suspended in water at the rate of 1 Tbls. per galon. I grow in raised beds and containers, so the minor trace element inputs are for Mg and S.
Ebsom Salt is Great for soaking your feet , increasing your Magnesium in your body, great for a facial scrub, releaves ache muscels. People are more deficient in Magnesium than any other vitamin. Needed for over 150 chemical reations.
Thanks, Brian. Love your channel. Keep up the good work. Sending you my, now, useless bag of epsom salt😂. I guess I will have the best looking feet in my neighborhood for the next 10 years!
I do use epsom salts, however not in my soil garden, but in my hydroponic gardens. Very small amount is added to the water (along with the other nutrients you are supposed to add) In a 27 gallon box, there is only 32 grams of epsom salt (about an ounce), while there is 64 grams each of the other 2 solutions added to the water. Once is Calcium, and the other one escapes my mind what it is called.
I'm using epsom salts once together with rock flour and horn shavings (1:1:1) when planting e.g. tomatoes. This due to the soil does not contain enough nutrients I need. That's it. It seems to do well as later in the season the fertilizer I'm using includes more phosphate for flowering and production. But I'm still experimenting, as just started with gardening 2 years ago, with the soil and fertilizer, looking for the best in my area to do. Means, I need to improve the soil to have a better harvest. So I'm looking for tips and tricks and try it when I think it fits for me.
What effect do epsom salts have on the things living in the ground? That's a consideration that often gets overlooked. You need a good ecosystem, not just nutrients for the plants.
never used it never will the fact is the soil has lots of mag and sulfer here in northern Alberta and i was taught Water DEEP never let your soil dry back and iv never had blosum end rot or any other issue i use oyster shell flour as a amendment for calcium
I use epsom salt EVERYDAY and will NOT be stopping any time soon! With a couple drops of lemongrass essential oil in my bath waterin the morning, it revitalizes and energizes me for the day! With a couple drops of lavender oil in my evening bath water and I sleep like a baby! Epsom salts in the garden? How dare you waste such a wonderful resource??? What a shame!
Epsom Salts provide magnesium and sulfur to the soil for acid loving plants that are being watered hard water. Great for Azalea, in that position you could use sequestered iron or sulfur chips instead. This is a fact. I agree with the rest. Then again its cheap and inert and not dangerous.
I don't use Epsom salt but I do use sea salt. I place one table spoon sea salt in one gallon of water and water the plants once a week as a fertilizer and I have had great results in the garden. There's many as 75 trace minerals and Trace elements in sea salt. Trace minerals including phosphorus, bromine, boron, zinc, iron, manganese, copper and silicon etc.
I never use it . I just keep to what I have like egg shells. Crush them up and mix in my soil . I use garden lime as well. That's just to mask the smell so animals don't ding up my plants.
Will I'll tell you this.. I've seen MG deficiency in my pit plants. 2tbsp per gallon in my teas and the MG defficiancy went away in two weeks, amd the plant was way happier. Watering wasn't the issue
I might use Epsom salts in my garden every so often I mainly just use compost and my regular fertilizer like worm casting and fertilizers that have NPK In them so as fare as Epsom salts go Its not really necessary to use It unless you need It
When you say regular watering, what to you mean? I live in Utah and have a drip irrigation system in my garden beds. I run it once a day for 18 minutes. Is this enough for the tomatoes? Or it would be better to run the water less time but twice a day?
Best Hosta Gardener I've met said 2 tales and sprinkle on foliage and I say it's helpful also peppers and it's foliage. That Lady had a hosta leaf ( not stem being counted 22.5 inches across and I had 21.5 inches. Had she entered hers at national convention it would have been the new record around 1990 but family issues she didn't get to go from Columbus Ohio as she had plans set up for. Know someone says good to set blooms and I think it seems to. Thanks as I've heard it both ways Sir
A great video as always Brian, you Republican Democrat🤣🤣. Lord ‘a mercy if someone has a different opinion in this world !!! I wish haters would spend that energy on something positive. Sending love and hugs to you, Emilie and Noah. ❤️🤗❤️
Since you used it in tomatoes, what are your thoughts on this? I was going to add some to container tomatoes because I had read that it makes them sweeter & less acidic. What do you think?
I’ve been telling this to people for years, it all just comes down to chemistry… know your chemistry, and you won’t make these mistakes or fall for misinformation.
I am a bit shocked that a nursery I was at buying vegetables seedlings advise I use epson salt, you see had I just believed her without doing research I might have been in trouble.
Really like your info. I'm trying to transition from chemicals to organic. I thought joining the Facebook group would be helpful but I tried to join twice with no response. Does anyone monitor this group?
My hydrangea is not blooming for me, I applied epsom salt and hoping to make it bloom. I tried wood chip mulch and bone meal last year, nothing worked.
@@kasturimajumder1653 Jenny from the Gardening with Creekside channel here on RU-vid has several videos about caring for hydrangeas. U might ck her channel out to see if u can get some tips from her hydrangea videos. I know they like acidic soil so lime helps with that.
4 years ago, as a beginning gardener, I bought a huge container of Epson salt for blossom end rote. I was part of a community garden and a wise more experienced gardener explained that I needed to water my tomatoes more consistently. Since then I use my Epson salts to Relax in bath after a great day of gardening. Bought more rain barrels so I can collect more rain in order to water consistently. Love how you explain things. 🙂
I've found that the most effective prevention for blossom end rot here in drought-plagued California is a heavy layer of mulch that seals in any water my tomatoes are given. This stops the cycle of dry/wet/dry in the soil and has the benefit of reducing total water usage at the same time. I'm using straw and pine shavings (horse bedding) but any mulch small enough to create a close cover works. The soil stays cool and the soil life loves it!
I grow tomatoes in large pots. I add a layer of horse bedding chopped straw into the pot to act as a water absorbing layer and then top off the compost with a 2in layer to hold the moisture. I don't get blossom end rot.
@@NextLevelGardeningf epson salt helps to nuitralise your PH...which helps your plant/tomatoes to take up those micro nutrients/calcium...it may help with some problems/blossom end rot?...
Thanks for your thoughtful coverage and research of the topic of Epsom salts in the garden. I think we’d all like to find a miraculous magic potion that will solve all of our garden woes. I haven’t tried it yet, but like probably everybody was curious about the buzz surrounding it. Now I think I won’t be going down that path. Thanks for saving me the time!
It must be a true honor to be accused of being both a democrat and republican over miracle grow. I agree... you shouldn’t use miracle grow. I try to use a mixture of compost and top soil. I just get big leaves 😂
I have used Epsom salt. Never saw any benefit. We are finally getting rain. But now everything is too wet. Yes, we have blossom end rot. It's so disappointing 😞. But, we have a bumper crop of cukes and I love pickles. Good luck with those ground squirrels.
Good morning Brian …this is a great video that make a lots of sense and will stop many arguments….I love your comment about “ hey is just gardening” keep on going!
Thanks Brian. When I fist started growing tomatoes in five gallon buckets, I was told to put a Tablespoon in the hole when first planting, so I’m not sure if I should continue. The intense heat has really hurt my tomato harvest. Praying the heat and drought will end.
I'm so glad you are trying to dispel these myths. It's amazing how many people actually believe in them! Don't believe everything you see on the internet, folks!
...and another yet thank you for finally explaining the science behind the chemistry of Epsom salts! My pregnant wife has a bag of this stuff. she relaxes while soaking in the bath as i rub her tired feet, and it keeps her happy. I'm not going to take any salt from her. id rather have a happy wife and regularly watered garden than to try to experiment with something that will probably be a waste of my time. cheers from Arizona growing zone 9b 🍷🍷
Don’t you just love the haters, not! I love your channel and am looking forward to watching you create all your new spaces at your new home! More Chicken’s in your vids would be a bonus too, lol. I’m sticking to an Epsom salt soak in the bath, not my garden.
Recent years I’ve discovered that not all types of tomato plants have huge problems with blossom end rot. I grow 4-7 different types of tomatoes and the only kind I had a BER problem were the Roma types. 🤷♀️
