How to FEED TOMATOES at Every Stage for BIG HARVESTS
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- As much as we all love them, tomatoes are some high maintenance vegetables. To get the biggest harvests out of your tomato plants, it’s important to keep them appropriately fed and fertilized throughout their entire lifecycle from seed to harvest.
Luckily, an effective approach to tomato fertilizing doesn’t have to be expensive or even particularly time consuming. Join us as we talk through how to meet a tomato’s nutritional requirements during these lifecycle stages:
1. How to fertilize tomato seedlings
2. What fertilizers to add to tomato planting soil ahead of time
3. How to fertilize tomatoes when you transplant them
4. How to efficiently fertilize Mature Tomato Plants with Flowers and Fruit on the Vine
We’ll go through when your tomato plants need (and don’t need) nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium and how to balance those variable requirements with practical fertilizer purchases and applications.
You’ll also learn why DIY kitchen scrap fertilizers may not be necessary and whether you can make do with compost and worm castings alone.
Let’s feed some tomatoes!
Chapters:
00:18 Feeding Tomato Seedlings
01:56 Preparing Soil Ahead of Transplant
03:26 Starter Fertilizer at Transplant
07:35 Side Dress Fertilizing Mature Plants
11:29 Kitchen Scrap DIY Fertilizers
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Tomato Fertilizer Research & Resources
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My advice to you at the beginning use phosphorus and potassium, potassium will make the stem thick which will lead to a very strong tomato plant
Liked and subbed. Excellent delivery of great info. Glad I found you.
So glad to hear it! And thanks for the sub, that's awesome 👍
Thanks for the advice
No problem at all!
Absolutely the Best! Your video is the most detailed and informative, thus Helpful, video I have seen on UA-cam and trust me I have watched a few. This video provided ALL of The Information I have been searching for on how to properly fertilize tomatoes based on growth stages and the pros and cons of various organic-based fertilizers, to achieve optimum healthy growth for my tomato plants. I finally have the answers I have been looking for. Your time and effort is much appreciated. Thank You!
Oh wow, thank you so much for sharing your reaction! =)
So, so wonderful to hear you found it helpful. Best of luck with your tomato garden this year!
@@NextdoorHomestead Thank You!🍅
planted fertilizer spikes last week. already seeing rapid lush top growth. plants had stalled and wasn't sure what best method would be, so I took your "easy" route. Those spikes did the trick. Thanks so much 👍✌ 🍅🍅
Oh, that's awesome to hear! Love me an easy win in the garden =)
This year I did add bone meal to my paste tomatoes to help with blossom end rot. I did it both at planting out and side dressing after 3 weeks. I usually get a little BER, but nothing severe.
Thank you for helpful information.
You're very welcome!
Every year I used water soluble 20-20-20 (blue) from first true leaves and until up potted. Then I used organic blood and bone at planting followed by fish fertilizer and then once established (couple weeks?) I gave them an organic Tomato Tone or something similar. Later in the season full 20-20-20 seemed to work just ok until we came into these long droughts and I am hand watering. Every year my tomatoes got early season blight, peppers didnt produce fruits until it was too late in the season and my strawberry leaves were always spotted. My plants were always planted at or before the last frost. Then I read about compost tea. So this year I made weed tea and included a small bit of comfrey leaves. (My plants are not big enough for a full tub of tea). I am giving regular feedings of the tea and hand watering. The garden is 40 x 50’. The growth is really impressive with the sturdy, healthy looking plants and my Bell, Poblano, Keystone, Banana and Jalapeño’s are producing well ahead of previous years. It’s quite a difference compared to all the previous years. I even notice more bees now. We have poor sandy soil on top of which I layer leaves, compost, straw and heavy woodchips. I am also using this tea on my large flower pots. The results have been stunning to say the least. Of course the tea smells but luckily the plants cant smell it! 😂 Thanks for all you share. It is so helpful.
Wow! That's incredible - I'm so, so happy to hear you've been able to help your plants out so much with the new feeding program =)
And that's a *big* garden to take care of! I love sharing this stuff so you are most welcome and thank *you* for watching =)
I love u for speaking so fast 💚👍
Hahaha sometimes... I've just got too much to say for a UA-cam video =)
Thank you for all the great information!
We have hens, so I save lots of egg shells and I powder them. I dig well down to add it when planting, and it helped with end rot for our soil. I think I will add some acidifier/sulfur, since I have some on hand for my blueberries, and see how that helps in my clay soil. The bed was amended otherwise before winter with compost and a little ash. I will fertilize more when they start fruiting. I have to direct sow this year, so hopefully all will go well. I think I will cover them with clear plastic until I see sprouts. I've just been gathering some info to get going, since I'm doing it a little differently than usual.
Thanks so much for sharing your methods! How did direct sowing end up going for you? Hoping you get great results =)
I have watch a few videos on making your own phosphorous solubilizing bacteria (PSB) fertilizer. What are your thoughts in using in the garden? Pros and Cons? Thanks!
I'm *not* an expert in any form whatsoever and it's not something I do, but I agree it's a fascinating topic. And unlike a lot of bacterial inoculations, there's actually some real evidence of efficacy (assuming you have a quality input).
Here's the research I'm aware of: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7064692/
The downsides that I see (and these are why I have no plans to do this myself) are: 1) I'd want a professionally developed and tested amendment, not hobbyist grade or DIY 2) It appears -as I read it anyhow - that the process requires re-applications, not a singular inoculation 3) It's not clear how the introduction of these bacteria impact the existing species in the soil.
Again, not at all an expert! Just my .02 cents =)
Just wondering where you are located to see how much applies to me. I am in NC. Thank you.
We're growing in zone 9 and our tomato season is long (last frost date is early March) with extremely little rainfall and persistently high temperatures. We also experience relatively low humidity levels. Apologies for not being more specific, I hope you understand!
Is Steer manure better than Heffer poop?
I found it interesting that you use less fertilizer in your container plants. I'm assuming you do so because of the smaller volume of soil. Most gardening channels I've seen always mention to some effect that they feed their container plants more due to there being less total nutrients available as compared to planting in ground. Your thoughts? And I do appreciate your thoughts on using insoluble granular with compost every 4- 6 weeks as opposed to feeding every 10 to 14 days with soluble fertilizers. This is my second growing season and it's a pain in the ass keeping a feeding schedule. Thanks
That's a good catch - it's basically just me underexplaining to keep things rolling.
The most important factor is that we water our containers very slowly and deeply and infrequently which significantly reduces the amount of washed out nutrients. We're able to do that because they're on tube irrigation and because I can adjust how much sun/heat they receive. With other container plants (like a melon and cucumber I'll make videos on), they're in full sun and I've had to both water and fertilize much more than I do with these tomatoes. Both a difference in their baseline needs and their environments.
The other factor is that we have miserable, impermeable clay soil that contains very little in the way of the big three nutrients. The whole in-ground garden was converted from a mostly dead lawn with little or no life in the soil.
For the in-ground plants, we mix in compost and aged manure and dug fairly deep planting holes, but the reality is the tomato roots are not able to meaningfully expand into the un-amended clay surrounding those planting holes. I've ripped some out to check.
Net net, our in-ground plants have even less organic material and space to work with than a container plant in a ten gallon bag that contains 1.5 cubic feet of good stuff. The plus side of the clay is there's less nutrient loss.
Basically, I think those other gardening channels are right for a lot of situations =) And I'd add to their advice that your watering schedule can make a big difference (especially with well-draining container materials).
Cheers!
@@NextdoorHomestead It was explained to me that container growing for larger plants should be thought of as hydroponics with soil. With a well drained container, much of the soil nutrients are washed out of the soil quickly. This requires nutrients more often. Dilute the water soluble nutrients by half and fertilize at least every other watering.
Bom dia quais são os componetes que voce usa para preparar o substrato para plantar tomate
Good morning! I use primarily steer manure, compost, and sometimes sphagnum peat moss to amend my soil for tomatoes. Then the balanced granular fertilizer like in the video.
Apologies if this doesn't answer your question!
@@NextdoorHomestead what is the difference between sphagnum peat moss and regular peat moss?
I really like your channel. I’ve been learning quite a bit. You explain things very well. Thank you
Thank you! Peat moss and sphagnum peat moss are generally the same thing. But are different than sphagnum moss from which they're derived. Cheers!
Explain that spike fertilizer thing please. You just shove it into a random spot in the pot? And only 1?
Heya! Spikes can be inserted at a similar distance as granular fertilizer. The quantity will vary by the spike (they come in different strengths) and both the type and lifecycle stage of the plant but the bag will list a few combinations.
Generally more than one, but I will say I've had good results even using fewer than is recommended on the package 😁
@@NextdoorHomestead Thanks man. I appreciate it.
Fertilizer every week and watch them grow, it's not hard, 15-30-15 works great about a teaspoon per gallon, and a tablespoon of Epson salt every 3 weeks, it's not necessary to have make it difficult, it's easy, have a blessed crop and don't forget to set your blooms with a cordless tooth brush 😀
I can appreciate that - simplicity is nice sometimes. Especially in busy seasons. But there's a lot of fun in digging into the weeds and trying to optimize as well ;)
I see you're fertilizing organically in pots. From my understanding, organic fertilizers need to be broken down by microorganisms in the soil to become bioavailable to the plant. The potting medium does not allow for these microorganisms to flourish, no matter what your mix contains. Using exclusively synthetic fertilizers (with micronutrients) seems to make much more sense for pots. Thoughts?
This is such a phenomenal question Alex, but I'm struggling to tackle it over a comment. A good answer would require a long video in and of itself.
There are so many variables at play including *which* nutrient we're talking about in the fertilizer - and within that nutrient - what form. Nitrogen for instance includes organic nitrogen compounds, ammonium ions and nitrate ions. And we'd need to know *when* that fertilizer was added and the conditions too!
Anyhow, to get back to your question, the fertilizer I use contains both ammoniacal nitrogen and "slow release" nitrogen sources so right off the bat there's some value there. You're totally correct that most of the nutritional value needs to be unlocked by the microorganisms in the soil though and that would be ineffective in a soilless medium.
But we generally make our own potting soil mixes and they always include some significant quantities of manure, compost, earthworm castings, forest fines, decomposed wood chips or other organic ingredients. And we reuse them crop after crop, refreshing with compost and manure as we do. So, long story short, I'm confident they have a decent little ecosystem going in there!
Sorry for the rambling reply - I didn't want to ignore your question but didn't have time to prepare a better response. This is a great topic though!
Just found you. Love the channel. I’m a scientist (most of the time). In view of recent pandemics, here’s a question regarding compost/soil amendments. Bat guano is found in lots of amendments. Bats are a reservoir species for TONS of viruses etc. which make the jump to other creatures, mammals, and sometimes humans. Zoonotic nasty events like Covid will continue to occur over time, but really.. should we make it easier by using poo, even if composted at relatively high temps, from these sources?? Would love to hear your opinions on the topic.
Very interesting topic. I am not qualified to answer (though I want to know and am looking into it) but will ask my wife if she can do a little research as she *is* qualified =)
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I use my own compost mix and recycled soil so it start full of microbes right away
Definitely! We always recycle the soil in our grow bags these days too =)
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YES! Thank you for this comment. Made my day =)
I like your information but with you talking so fast I had to watch your video twice to absorb the information.
Thank you for watching and for the good feedback Martha! I totally get what you mean.
I hope I didn't sound rude, it was not my intention. Your information was very good tho.
Not at all! I'm quite new to UA-cam and sincerely appreciate hearing how I can make these videos more helpful =)
Hey! There’s an option to make playback slower
I thought the same thing. I had to stop watching. No offense. I've seen other youtubers talk so fast!!! Maybe they're trying to cram in so much info and feel rushed. I think you'll do much better in upcoming videos!!! Thanks for what you're doing. Stay away from the caffeine before filming! 😂
slow down.
I've tried!