The (Stephani) Atkins Diet

So, by chance, I ran into an internet gardening friend today.  Her big thing is organic goat’s milk.  She turns most of it into, and consumes it as, Greek style yogurt.  Kicker is that her goats give her a couple of gallons of milk a day, and they cannot eat that much yogurt, so she converts the remainder of the milk into tomatoes.

Not a typo.  Tomatoes.

She showed me her plants.  Same general types of tomatoes I grow, only her plants are 4 feet tall.  She gives them regular feedings of raw organic goat’s milk.  As a bonus, she wants me to try the Stephani Atkins milk-fed tomato diet in my own garden, and to do it as a test.

Ok, I can do that.  She gave me two gallons and when I got home this evening, I picked the plants.  Mixing it up a bit.  Two out of 7 Coldset tomatoes, and 3 out of 8 Jimmy Nardello Peppers.  I weeded around, and loosened the soil carefully around all of them, and divided a half gallon of goat’s milk between them.  In a couple of days I will do it again, etc etc, until the 2 gallons is used up, and track the growth of these plants vs the plants which do not get goat’s milk.

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Those are the two Coldset Tomato plants.IMG_3189

That is one of the three Jimmy Nardello pepper plants.

So we will see how that goes.  I am interested in a very curious way.  I do not have an economical supply of organic goat’s milk currently to do any large scale growing currently, but, in the future, we would really like to have some goats, and if having goats means an over abundance of milk, (I would try for hard, dry, long aged cheeses myself first) it would be nice to know if I could really kick up other food production.

Anyway, just a fun experiment.

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