Based upon what I've seen, some extra nitrogen will tend
to make more foliage, more leaves. I'm no where an
expert though... and it really is going to depend upon how
much hit the leaves and how much went into the soil that
covers the roots. I've noticed that tomato plants planted
into the ground have roots that spread out... this is based
upon a tomato plant I've taken out of a pot that was
heavily fertilized with nitrogen, the roots were packed
against the walls of the pot. The leaves did start curling
up while inside the pot. So I washed the roots trying to
get rid of the excess fertilization, and I replanted it into
the ground. It did pretty well for about a month after
the transplant, then I left for about 10 days and I think
the heat pretty much killed it... well it's still alive, but
it has no leaves on it. All the leaves grow to be small
leaves and then turn turn brown and fall off.

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"Some Guy" wrote in message ...
Warren wrote:

sprayed lawn with a liquid lawn fertilizer (20-3-4)
some over-spray got on a few potted tomato plants.
tomato plants looked somewhat shriveled without
actually being wilted or droopy.

The fertilizer contained no herbicide or weed killer.
Just 20% nitrogen, 3% Phosphorus (Phosphoric acid)
and 4% soluble potash.
Would something like this be harmful to tomato plants?

At the peak of summer, that much nitrogen fertilizer is bad
for anything. Plants are either trying to go dormant in the
heat, or divert energy to surviving the heat.

This summer so far we've been cooler than normal (great-lakes area).
And wetter than normal. Nothing is going dormant around here. Last
summer I watered like crazy in July and August. Not this summer.

Still doesn't answer my question - that is, did the liquid lawn
fertilizer hitting the leaves / stems of the tomato plants cause them
to shrivel?