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Multi Purpose Compost for Toms and Herbs?
Tina33
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in Fruit & veg
Hi, I've Levington's Multi Purpose Compost with added John Innes over from potting plants. Is it ok to use for planting herbs and tomatoes? Thanks.
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Yes but you could add chicken manure and some fertilizer to beef it up .
Tomatoes only need a decent, free draining medium to do well ,and then fed once the first truss of fruit is set. Overfeeding them leads to lots of lush foliage at the expense of fruit usually.
Most herbs are pretty straightforward too - the annual ones need a bit more once they start to flag, but it really depends which herbs you're growing.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Don't overfeed herbs - most of them like poor, well drained soil. Add some sand or grit if you can, but don't give them chicken pellets, they won't thank you for it.
Tomatoes will be fine in that compost for a while. When they start to set fruit, you can give them a high potassium feed, such as a bottled tomato feed.