feeding beer to tomatoes

**Cutecumber** · 19-05-2007, 05:16 PM

interesting - I've never heard of that before.

Using the slops for catching slugs, yes, and using "recycled beer" - i.e. urine - is relatively widely known about

**Alice** · 19-05-2007, 05:26 PM

Never heard of it Dave, but it sounds plausible - beer is good organic material. You could run a trial yourself, feeding your (unprocessed) slops to one plant and report back to us. Then we would all know for sure.

**Snadger** · 19-05-2007, 06:42 PM

My Dad tried beer slops on his show leeks....rotted them to the ground!

The old pitmans feed was, after a night out on the drink and because you shouldn't water til the sun goes down, pee in watering can add a bottle of Guinness and top up can with water, then water plants!

Damm waste of good ale if you ask me!

**Paulottie** · 19-05-2007, 07:19 PM

Pumkins apparently like beer so why not....if you have free slops I suppose...but as Sadger points out damn waste if it drinkable.

**Snadger** · 19-05-2007, 07:47 PM

Originally posted by Lesley Jay

Doesn't the smell of beer attract the slugs?

No more than the smell of Comfey tea would, I expect LJ!

**davefromthechipie** · 20-05-2007, 02:18 PM

Originally posted by Alice View Post

Never heard of it Dave, but it sounds plausible - beer is good organic material. You could run a trial yourself, feeding your (unprocessed) slops to one plant and report back to us. Then we would all know for sure.

will try it on 3 toms. prob is i really only drink ale/bitter at the pub , not sure if lagers going to be the best thing for um

. il try it in a spinger /com mix

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