so, from the "For what its worth" column...
The method for 2017 is the Alaska fish fert off the shelf at big box Depot and the Alaska kelp liquid I got from some other local garden center.
This is the stuff I used
https://www.amazon.com/Alaska-Pennin...elp+plant+food
NO miracle grow. Only fertilizer I used was some Tomato tone that was mixed in with the soil at the time I transplanted.
I used the kelp and fish fert every 10 days or so at one TBS per gallon. So... The first pic is the day after plant out day on March 19th 2017
The following pics were taken almost exactly 5 weeks later.
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Not bad for 5 weeks growth
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