Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Chesapeake Blue Crab Compostfor your Tomatoes., 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
This is a c/p of the Post I just wrote on the Tomato Forum. I hope you all have a place somewhere to buy this! It is amazing!
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We here--in the Chesapeake Bay area eat thousands and thousands of tons of steamed crabs every Summer...It is a way of life here...The whole act of "picking the meat" out of the crabs is a pasttime in itself--gory to some--an art to most others. Accompanied by X number of cold beers--of course.
Everyone will tell you that THEIR way of picking the meat out of a crab is THE best way!!!!

Anywhere you go out to eat, you opt instinctively for Crab cakes--AHHH such delicacies!!!! Or--Crab Fluffs---Or--Shrimp stuffer with crab----Or--Crab Imperial (the ultimate!)--How about Crab Soup? Comes in 2 versions-Cream of Crab or Crab Vegetable with beef Soup-----even Crab pretzels...

Crab...Crab...crab...You would think nothing else exists in the Maryland, Virginia, Carolinas area---just crabs! We just love it and eat it up by the tons and tons...Well, for every crab--there is 10 times the weight in shell that is left over. So, they have been composting these mountains of shells (being environmentally minded) for years, and the By Product is:

Ta-Dahhhh!!!!! "Chesapeake Blue" Crab compost. It is the remnants of the last stages of composting all these crab shells and the most amazing product you could ever use on Tomatoes! Honest!!!! It will double your yield! It will almost eliminate Blosson End Rot! It is just great!

You cannot buy this in a HD or a Lowes...Maybe in a Southern States or a Farm Supply type of a place. I am not sure if it is even sold outside of marylaand--but we have a Nursery here that will ship it to you----"Carroll Gardens" and also "Myer Seed Company International". See Garden Watchdog if they are listed...I know C.G. is!

I bought mine a few days ago at Myer Seed---a bag runs $4 something...It is like a top soil bag--just not as full. You mix in several hand fulls in every prepared hole you will plant a Tomato in. That' all, Folks!

Here is what the bag looks like: