---Pete--- said:

PS: In more recent years, I am composting more in an
attempt to eliminate the use of the chemical fertilizers.

Don't forget that even if you manage to go to all compost, you will have
to bring in off-site material to replenish the nutrients carried off in your
harvest. (The particular vulnerability here is potassium.) There will be
some loss through leaching even if you and everyone else who eats
your produce uses and composting toilets and... recycles to the garden.
(I'm assuming you all don't.)

Alfalfa meal or pellets used as a fertilizer provide N, K, micronutrients and
organic matter. Seaweed is also particularly good for readily available K
and micronutrients. (Alfalfa can be made into a 'tea' for foliar spray and
seaweed is also used as a foliar spray.)

Choose the right varieties for your area and personal tastes, pump up the K
and the micronutrients to ensure good flavor and then hope it doesn't pour
down rain when the green tomatoes are putting on their growth and particularly
when they are ripening.

--
Pat in Plymouth MI

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)