Tomato food promotes flowers and fruit so it will be fine for courgettes, peppers, runner beans etc.
Veg that are grown for their leaves will need a different formulation - I use chicken manure pellets and an occasional dose of liquid seaweed fertiliser.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Best all round feed I`ve found is home made from comfrey manure, it stinks but the results on my tomatoes were well worth it and its free!
To make pick a kilogram of comfrey leaves (wear gloves as they prickle), put them in a net or similar and soak in a bucket with a lid in 10 litres/2 gallons of water for two weeks. Remove comfrey leaves and use liquid diluted one part manure to ten of water.
Welcome on board Sarah, free tomato food is available at your local beach, its called seaweed, not the white or green stuff, but the red or darker stuff, pick it wet or go to the top of the beach and pick bags of the already dried and broken up stuff ( looks just like compost ) that mother nature has prepared for you, your tomatoes will love it!
The wet stuff you can dry in your back garden and break up and sprinkle on top of your compost or mix in with compost b4 planting, or you can place wet stuff in a sealed bucket and keep in a dark place for 6 months to develop into a concentrate.
The dry stuff I actually grow micro salad and micro herbs in as well as my tomatoes!
Wow! I wish I'd known that last Sunday! Had a lovely walk on the beach at Hengistbury Head ........ Nothing but rain and hail ever since, but will take your advice next time I can get there.
Berkley, I personally cycle everywhere, and I am sure u can picture me at my local beach collecting 4 bags of this stuff, with people walking by wondering what on earth I am doing?
Do not be put of by this, I simply smile at them and ask them if they grow tomatoes or veg? 8 out of 10 answer yes! If they answer yes, I explain how this is free year round feed and free compost, totally organic to boot, they soon, stop looking at you in a funny way and start asking questions, stating that they will bring bags next time on there walk! PS I hope you have a car, as its a chore bringing it home on a bike!
This year I have started actually adding to it to my soil, must admit it looks so much nicer mixed in with soil, than soil alone, reports I have read state that it also help balance the ph level in your soil, as well as breaking up ur soil and feeding your plants organically.
Here is a forum you may not be part of on this site, so take a look, see if we can help each other, with more than just tips! But ofc tips are always welcome, as some of us know everything about nothing, and some of us nothing about everything! So god bless those on here that know something about something!
Seeds and plant exchange 2015 is a great forum on here, type that into search bar on this site, then save that in your favorites !This forum allows you to get free seeds and get rid of any unwanted or surplus seeds you may have harvested last few years, or seeds you get free from mag's! I think Becky started it years ago, been very popular ever since, I will personally be listing seeds at the end of growing season, but many are posting free seeds now also, so take a look in ur garden seed collection, see those seeds you know you are never going to plant and offer them up, in exchange for ones you always wanted, all it costs is a postage stamp, envelopes are reusable, stamps if unstamped are also reusable, remember this, as we all reuse here Got an envelope today, I think its on its forth run now, and postage stamp still ain't been stamped lol, so I will be reusing it yet again, god bless the slackers at royal mail!
PS In regards to natural seaweed being used to grow in, I work in a kitchen as chef, and all the micro salad and micro leafs and micro herbs are grown in a concentrate of seaweed, I just decided to take it one step further and actually grow in the stuff instead, mixed with organic compost. All suppliers to restaurants are growing in this stuff, its funky, its new, its organic and free!
I use tomato feed to boost the flowering on my agapanthus in my boarders and also on my clematis prior to flowering. I ask this question because do any of you do the same and what are the results you acheive
My Husband swears by Tomato feed for everything. its so easy to make up, if you are busy (who isnt?) I also live near the sea, and have made the comfrey stuff. Incidentally, last summer I gave my son, a Sweet Aperitif Tomato plant, he has no outside space, lives in a second floor flat, had it in his South facing kitchen windowcil He was picking toms in December, I told him to take all the leaves off so the plant consentrates on fruiting. He ignored me, last month when was there, he picked 2 more toms, its now on his worktop, up to the ceiling, and in a very small pot. Is this a record! The leaves are still lush and green.
Beware of using envelopes that dont look franked, a friend sent me a letter in one, I got a card from the local sorting office, had to go and collect it, pay her postage, AND pay a fee to them. It had obviously gone thru the sorting machine,BUT there was no stamping on it.
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Tomato food promotes flowers and fruit so it will be fine for courgettes, peppers, runner beans etc.
Veg that are grown for their leaves will need a different formulation - I use chicken manure pellets and an occasional dose of liquid seaweed fertiliser.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you . New to this so have lots to learn, but so far the plots looking good!
That sounds good - welcome aboard
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Best all round feed I`ve found is home made from comfrey manure, it stinks but the results on my tomatoes were well worth it and its free!
To make pick a kilogram of comfrey leaves (wear gloves as they prickle), put them in a net or similar and soak in a bucket with a lid in 10 litres/2 gallons of water for two weeks. Remove comfrey leaves and use liquid diluted one part manure to ten of water.
Welcome on board Sarah, free tomato food is available at your local beach, its called seaweed, not the white or green stuff, but the red or darker stuff, pick it wet or go to the top of the beach and pick bags of the already dried and broken up stuff ( looks just like compost ) that mother nature has prepared for you, your tomatoes will love it!
The wet stuff you can dry in your back garden and break up and sprinkle on top of your compost or mix in with compost b4 planting, or you can place wet stuff in a sealed bucket and keep in a dark place for 6 months to develop into a concentrate.
The dry stuff I actually grow micro salad and micro herbs in as well as my tomatoes!
I hope this was helpful
Wow! I wish I'd known that last Sunday! Had a lovely walk on the beach at Hengistbury Head ........ Nothing but rain and hail ever since, but will take your advice next time I can get there.
Berkley, I personally cycle everywhere, and I am sure u can picture me at my local beach collecting 4 bags of this stuff, with people walking by wondering what on earth I am doing?
Do not be put of by this, I simply smile at them and ask them if they grow tomatoes or veg? 8 out of 10 answer yes! If they answer yes, I explain how this is free year round feed and free compost, totally organic to boot, they soon, stop looking at you in a funny way and start asking questions, stating that they will bring bags next time on there walk! PS I hope you have a car, as its a chore bringing it home on a bike!
This year I have started actually adding to it to my soil, must admit it looks so much nicer mixed in with soil, than soil alone, reports I have read state that it also help balance the ph level in your soil, as well as breaking up ur soil and feeding your plants organically.
Here is a forum you may not be part of on this site, so take a look, see if we can help each other, with more than just tips! But ofc tips are always welcome, as some of us know everything about nothing, and some of us nothing about everything! So god bless those on here that know something about something!
Seeds and plant exchange 2015 is a great forum on here, type that into search bar on this site, then save that in your favorites !This forum allows you to get free seeds and get rid of any unwanted or surplus seeds you may have harvested last few years, or seeds you get free from mag's! I think Becky started it years ago, been very popular ever since, I will personally be listing seeds at the end of growing season, but many are posting free seeds now also, so take a look in ur garden seed collection, see those seeds you know you are never going to plant and offer them up, in exchange for ones you always wanted, all it costs is a postage stamp, envelopes are reusable, stamps if unstamped are also reusable, remember this, as we all reuse here
Got an envelope today, I think its on its forth run now, and postage stamp still ain't been stamped lol, so I will be reusing it yet again, god bless the slackers at royal mail!
PS In regards to natural seaweed being used to grow in, I work in a kitchen as chef, and all the micro salad and micro leafs and micro herbs are grown in a concentrate of seaweed, I just decided to take it one step further and actually grow in the stuff instead, mixed with organic compost. All suppliers to restaurants are growing in this stuff, its funky, its new, its organic and free!
I use tomato feed to boost the flowering on my agapanthus in my boarders and also on my clematis prior to flowering. I ask this question because do any of you do the same and what are the results you acheive
My Husband swears by Tomato feed for everything. its so easy to make up, if you are busy (who isnt?) I also live near the sea, and have made the comfrey stuff. Incidentally, last summer I gave my son, a Sweet Aperitif Tomato plant, he has no outside space, lives in a second floor flat, had it in his South facing kitchen windowcil He was picking toms in December, I told him to take all the leaves off so the plant consentrates on fruiting. He ignored me, last month when was there, he picked 2 more toms, its now on his worktop, up to the ceiling, and in a very small pot. Is this a record! The leaves are still lush and green.
Beware of using envelopes that dont look franked, a friend sent me a letter in one, I got a card from the local sorting office, had to go and collect it, pay her postage, AND pay a fee to them. It had obviously gone thru the sorting machine,BUT there was no stamping on it.