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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Fertilizer Products
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