I bought some organic vegetable fertilizer, and prepared some "fertilizer tea" by combining a cup of fertilizer and a gallon of water and letting it sit for 24 hours.
The first thing I noticed was that this fertilizer tea smells like the sewer backed up! This is most likely due to the manure and fish meal in the fertilizer. Really - it was quite lovely!
I watered the seedlings with a solution of apx 75% tea and 25% water, and then went away for three days. When I returned home, the difference was very noticeable. The plants were taller, the stems thicker, and the leaves bigger and a deeper green color.
Judge for yourself - here are some 'before' pictures (click for enlargements):
And now here are the 'after' pictures taken 4 days later (click for enlargements):
Needless to say, I'll be doing this with all my seedlings from now on. I'll give them another dose a week after the first one.
Just two and half weeks until planting time...
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