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Old 15-07-2013, 04:03 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Feeding tomatoes

During staff tea someone was asking Ray about tomatoes. He said that a
long time ago he'd been asked by the boffin at the Lea Valley
Experimental Station to go along and watch hydroponically grown tomato
plants being watered. At a certain point they simply stopped taking up
the nutrients and this man had observed this for just a week. He was
the first to show that tomato plants only 'feed' in the mornings and
that's why we're advised to water and feed them then.
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Sacha
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