Thread: Trick to growing tomatoes in Brisbane?
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Old 26-09-2007, 10:18 AM posted to aus.gardens
Lionel van den Berg Lionel van den Berg is offline
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Default Trick to growing tomatoes in Brisbane?
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Tomatoes are heavy feeders so try more fertilizer.


Anything in particular? I did give them dynamic lifter (though being
high in nitrogen I suspect that is mostly good for leaf growth) and some
blood and bone. I'm still working on building the soil, mulching
heavily, it's not the greatest soil around.

I grew up in Northern NSW, you don't even need to fertilise there and
you get big juicy tomatoes. We were at that time keeping our own seed
from a variety called bullocks heart. It doesn't really look like the
one they sell as ox heart now, but it certainly was the best tomato I've
ever eaten, pity I let the seed go .

Lionel.
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