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Feeding tomatoes
I have researched the topic a bit, and get some contrary advice: from
don't feed until you see flowers to if you don't feed regularly grow bag toms, you'll get blossom end rot. Help! Should I feed before I see flowers? Only my totem bush plant is showing its first. What about those that have none? TIA Cat(h) |
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Feeding tomatoes
"Cat(h)" wrote in message ups.com... I have researched the topic a bit, and get some contrary advice: from don't feed until you see flowers to if you don't feed regularly grow bag toms, you'll get blossom end rot. Help! Should I feed before I see flowers? Only my totem bush plant is showing its first. What about those that have none? I wanted to ask about feeding as well. I have some tomato plants growing in pots in the greenhouse, the pots were filled with the contents of grow bags, the master of the housr tells me I should be feeding them, but what with, and how do I feed them, and how often? Alan |
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Alan Holmes wrote: "Cat(h)" wrote in message ups.com... I have researched the topic a bit, and get some contrary advice: from don't feed until you see flowers to if you don't feed regularly grow bag toms, you'll get blossom end rot. Help! Should I feed before I see flowers? Only my totem bush plant is showing its first. What about those that have none? I wanted to ask about feeding as well. I have some tomato plants growing in pots in the greenhouse, the pots were filled with the contents of grow bags, the master of the housr tells me I should be feeding them, but what with, and how do I feed them, and how often? Alan Proprietary liquid tomato feed is available everywhere here - supermarkets, garden centres, etc. My understanding is that you need to feed toms that are grown in pots or grow bags - less so toms that are in well prepared and manured open soil. My bottle at home states that I should feed every two weeks - but it doesn't say when I should start. I have read in some places that I should start from when flowers appear, and other places seem to indicate an earlier start. I am currently feeding every couple of weeks, and watering every couple of days, as my toms are growing outside in growbags, and we are currently having a heat/dry wave. I would like to know if I am doing right or wrong. Cat(h) |
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"Cat(h)" wrote in message oups.com... Alan Holmes wrote: "Cat(h)" wrote in message ups.com... I have researched the topic a bit, and get some contrary advice: from don't feed until you see flowers to if you don't feed regularly grow bag toms, you'll get blossom end rot. Help! Should I feed before I see flowers? Only my totem bush plant is showing its first. What about those that have none? I wanted to ask about feeding as well. I have some tomato plants growing in pots in the greenhouse, the pots were filled with the contents of grow bags, the master of the housr tells me I should be feeding them, but what with, and how do I feed them, and how often? Alan Proprietary liquid tomato feed is available everywhere here - supermarkets, garden centres, etc. My understanding is that you need to feed toms that are grown in pots or grow bags - less so toms that are in well prepared and manured open soil. My bottle at home states that I should feed every two weeks - but it doesn't say when I should start. I have read in some places that I should start from when flowers appear, and other places seem to indicate an earlier start. I am currently feeding every couple of weeks, and watering every couple of days, as my toms are growing outside in growbags, and we are currently having a heat/dry wave. I would like to know if I am doing right or wrong. I haven't fed tomatoes for years - they grow in greenhouse borders (soil never changed but scratched in and deposited on by hens during the winter for the last few years) and in garden plots - four year rotation only, no feeding as such. We get a lot of tomatoes - this year I've sown and planted about thirty plants of different kinds, I'll dry and freeze those fruit which overface us for immediate consumption. I buy tomatoes very rarely and then only local ones, even they are nothing like as good as our own :-) Lots and lots of water though. Daily watering. There are butts all round the garden and the greenhouse has a perforated hose just under or on the soil, fed by a butt taking water from the house roof. I might be doing all the wrong things of course! Mary Cat(h) |
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Mary Fisher wrote: I haven't fed tomatoes for years - they grow in greenhouse borders (soil never changed but scratched in and deposited on by hens during the winter for the last few years) and in garden plots - four year rotation only, no feeding as such. We get a lot of tomatoes - this year I've sown and planted about thirty plants of different kinds, I'll dry and freeze those fruit which overface us for immediate consumption. I buy tomatoes very rarely and then only local ones, even they are nothing like as good as our own :-) Lots and lots of water though. Daily watering. There are butts all round the garden and the greenhouse has a perforated hose just under or on the soil, fed by a butt taking water from the house roof. I might be doing all the wrong things of course! Mary I dare say you would have noticed :-) These will be (cross fingers and toes) my first crop since I gardened with my Daddy too long ago for comfort - and in a very different place where neither grow bags nor green houses were ever needed for a successful crop. (nostalgic sigh) Cat(h) |
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