On Jul 1, 3:44*pm, Bill wrote:
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*beecrofter wrote:
If you went crazy with soluble nitrogen fertilizer try pinching the
plants back, giving them a good soaking, and adding a little bit of
sugar as a carbon source to the soil to tie up some of the soluble
nitrogen as bacteria.

*I can understand the first part of your statement. But adding sugar is
new to me for carbon as I think of wood ashes for the carbon. *Perhaps a
new trick for me. Sounds expensive some how. Still I think you mean as
remedial for imbalance on a small scale perhaps. . Adding sugar got me
way off present practice thinking..

*Bill who spills Hummer sugar only 1-4 parts water.

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Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA

I don't think there will be much carbon in wood ash after all that's
pretty much what was burned away to make the ashes.
All the sugar does is let the microbes in the soil go into a riot of
growth making excess soluble nitrogen less soluble.
If you haven't gone nuts with fertilizers it shouldn't much matter.
As for the expense? the original poster has 2 tomato plants not 200
acres!