What is the best way to stimulate plant growth naturally?

Question

My second attempts to grow my wife and I a nice garden has produced some pretty excellent results. (I can't *wait* until my purple haze carrots start coming up! :0) )

But while I was busy transplanting my tomaters and other plants into new styrofoam cups the day before yesterday (until I can get some planters), I was thinking to myself, "Is there ways to stimulate plant growth naturally--outside of watering, feeding, and getting them plenty of sunlight?"

So that they remain strong?

Answer 1

Seaweed! And plant growth! Miracle? No, but close I think. I have always loved using Seaweed to stimulate plant growth and it is as close to a miracle as you can get. Seaweed contains all the major and minor plant nutrients, and all trace elements in a natural combination; iron, cobalt, copper, manganese, zink, and other trace elements are found naturally in seaweed.

It also has Alginic acid, a soil conditioner and the rest are the plant conditioners. Between dried seaweed meal and liquid seaweed, I like the seaweed meal best as it has vitamins that the extract lacks. But the extract is good too, because it is available to the plant right away, where the meal has to break down in the soil before it becomes available to your plant.

And Seaweed products improve water-holding characteristics of soil, too, which leads to better aeration and capillary action, there by stimulating the root systems of plants for further growth.

I hope you will give it a try, I have used it for years with very satisfying results. Good Luck!

Answer 2

Control suckers or unwanted shoots so that energy is not being wasted on them..  

Answer 3

Compost.  If you have not made any, you can buy it in bags.