Stop Burying Fish Heads Under Your Tomatoes — Here's What Actually Works

I expected to spend this one debunking the Squanto story. Then archaeologists turned up herring bones under a seventeenth-century planting mound, and the scholar who called the whole practice a myth got answered in print three separate times. Which leaves the practice looking historical rather than invented — and the gardening advice wrong anyway, for a reason that rarely comes up. Squanto had exhausted coastal sand under a crop grown from seed across a long season. You have a nursery transplant in a worked bed. Sorted by what each one is supposed to cure, the things gardeners bury fall into families — and an entire family of them treats an illness the plant never had. In this video: • The measurement showing fish is a fast fertiliser, not a slow one — the opposite of the whole promise • Why feeding nitrogen on planting day buys a magnificent June and a thin August • What the composting guidance says about burying meat, and what comes to dig it up • The four things people bury for blossom end rot, and why the rot was never a soil problem • The one home remedy with real science behind it, ruined by how people apply it • The one piece of old advice left standing, and it is nothing you add to the soil • The six things that settle a tomato crop, every one of them above ground level Subscribe if this was useful. New videos every weekday. In the comments, name your state and whatever goes in your planting hole. My guess is that fish stayed near the coast while eggshells spread everywhere, and a few hundred replies would settle it. #gardening #tomatoes #vegetablegarden #gardenmyths #growyourownfood #homestead #kitchengarden