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Some quick information on side-dressing/fertilizing container tomatoes.
Hi! How can i side dress my plants with bone meal (or other kind of dusty
organic fertilizer) ? Or that won’t work because bone meal is a slow
releaser fertilizer? Thank you very much!!
Yes. Determinate means they get to a set height, produce fruit all at once
and die off. So they yellowing is normal die back. Search determinate on my
site i have some videos. If you look up the name of you tomato on the net
youll find out if it is indeterminate or determinate. Heirlooms have both
types.
I wish you luck. I dont see why you wont get a great production this year.
I expect to see red fruit in a week on mine… I hope.
Thats big. That tomato will have no problem getting to size.
hi gary, I don’t understand what the term determinate varieties means. can
you give a little more info. The tomatoes are all heirlooms, Thanks much ~
Thanks. Ive been growing container tomatoes for a while. Moisture and
regular feedings keeps them chugging along. They don’t get quite as big as
the do in the ground but you can get a great size tomato in a 5 gallon
container.
7 gallons sounds good. That helps with moisture. Good luck.
Hello Gary, Thank you for the great videos. I have a question about our
tomatoes. the leaves at the bottom are turning yellow. Can you suggest what
this is & its remedy? Many blessings
Yes I use bark mulch on top. Side feeding is probably what i said or meant.
I have to put in my text boxes still. It means you are just feeding the
plant by putting the fertilizer to the side. Yes you can use it for other
vegetables.
If they are determinate varieties that is normal. Sometimes indeterminate
varieties turn yellow because of water, nutrient or weather issues… or
usually a combo. The best thing to do is make sure there are no insects
doing the damage and its not another disease but just yellowing. An extra
liquid fertilizer dosing on the leaves and the container. You could also
give it some epsom salts. After that let them be.
I had tomatoes from seed that I put out in 5gallon buckets back first of
May and one didn’t have proper drainage and died back, I put it in a 30-40
gallon pot and its now double the size of the 5 gallon ones haha, wish I
had acres of land
Are peppers heavy feeders, too? Mine don’t seem to be, but you never know.
Can you use the 10-10-10 on all container vegetables? Is that bark on top
of the dirt in your container veggies? And what is a side feeder? Or was I
not listening? Ha-ha…….your veggies look great mine are all still so
small. Thanks.
I ended up using 7 gallon this year and I am noticing a big difference from
the 5 gallon. I gotta do this to my container tomatoes, they are ready,
thanks for the video ;)-
That can happen. Inspect them. If no bugs than try a drink of liquid
fertilizer. If they r determinate varieties the yellowing is normal.
Good grief, look at the size of those tomato plants. I can’t believe those
are coming out of those little pots. I call them little relative to the
size of those plants. Impressive.
Not nearly as much as tomatoes. In fact to much fertilizing on peppers gets
you more leaves and less peppers. For someone reason they do better with
neglect. Ground peppers are pretty much good to go. Container peppers will
need some feedings.