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Question by Patricia: How much coffe grounds should I use to fertilize my tomato plants?
My leaves are turning yellow so I think its lack of nitrogen so I’ve herd that using coffe grounds will help solve that problem. I have each tomato plant in its own 3 gallon bucket because I am moving to another house soon, so what I need to know is how much coffe grounds should I give them? I dont want to over fertilize them with nitrogen.
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Answer by oil field trash
Sorry, coffee grounds will steal nitrogen from the plants. You would do better to add some fertilizer specifically made for tomato plants. You can get it at any home improvement center or nursery.
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Yes, those pinapple tomatoes produce a very tall plant, but don’t set many tomatoes. I just cut my down because of other issues, but they don’t like to be in a greenhouse. Once I took mine out of my hoophouse, they set a tomato or two. They are fairly large tomatoes too. I haven’t tasted one yet, I had to pull my when they were still green so I am waiting for them to ripen up. Leaf miner bugs devasted my tomato crop this year…
garden Looks Great…Never Heard of those Pineapple Tomatoes but different kinds of Tomatoes do have different Growing Habits I know that, I plant about 6 Different kinds too.
you need to get those plants in the ground soon. a 3 gal bucket is to small.
Coffee grounds are not a good idea. Yellow leaves could indicate uneven watering, or too much water. Sometimes, the very lowest leaves do turn light green or yellow. If the top of the plants are looking good, you don’t need to fertilize right now. Over feeding can also cause yellow leaves.
Make sure the dirt is not too wet. They don’t like to have their roots in soggy soil. If you insist on fertilizing, use Miracle Gro granules for vegetables at 1/2 strength. Or, any 10-10-10 will work.
Normally, I would not feed a sick plant. I would adjust the watering and the sun light exposure first.
If the lower about 4 leaves are yellow, that is normal. They need to be cut off.
If most of the leaves are yellow it can be the watering. Usually too much water.
Coffee grounds is not a good ideal.
I put coffee grounds on some cucumber soil and it molded.
coffee grounds are not fertilizer…. they are a soil ammendment that can change the soil acidity slightly…. and yes, they make the soil a little more ‘workable’…. they are a favorite of worms, but you don’t have them in your buckets….. so you don’t need coffee grounds in there, either…. wait until you move, have planted the tomatoes and then you can incorporate some coffee grounds into the soil around the plants….
yellow leaves , more than the bottom few, mean overwatering….those buckets DO have drainage holes, right?… if not, the plants are drowning……
you don’t want just nitrogen… that makes leaves….. you need a balanced fertilizer with all the same numbers, like 10-10-10…. or one with a higher second number, to get you more flowers and fruit…. like 5-15-5, a bloom food…..
Yello leaves means not enough space for the roots.Coffe grounds dont take nitrogen away but sawdust does.