A pill for tomatoes?

[NJCher]

At work today, I was talking to a fellow teacher and we were trading gardening stories. He told me that about 8 years ago, he saw an ad in Mother Earth News about a pill that you could put at the base of a tomato plant and it increased yield dramatically. I asked him what was in the "pill" and he couldn't remember.

Does anyone recall something like this?

He said he had such a fantastic yield that he not only gave tomatoes to the neighbors but canned his own, too.

I thought it might be epsom salts but the recommendation for epsom salts is far more than what would be in the size of pill he was talking about.

If you know or can even speculate on what it might have been, post it!


Cher