Tomato Dirt Newsletter
Volume 11, Number 14

Dear Tomato Dirt reader,

Welcome back to Tomato Dirt! A couple times a month, we’ll send you this newsletter packed with tips about growing tomatoes and using them.

It’s Feeding Time!

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This is the GS page where you can get all the different kinds of fertilizing and soil amendment gear you need for your garden. It's so much fun to browse around. And if you find something at a bargain price - well, go for it!

Plus, they donate 8% of their profits to home and garden improvement programs.

But apart from all that good stuff, their fertilizers and soil enhancers are quality products that will last season after season. Check them out here.

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FEATURE: What to Feed Your Hungry Tomato Plants - A Quick Guide to Tomato Fertilizer

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Enter fertilizer. Most fertilizers are a combination of the three nutrients commonly fed to plants: nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (referred to as the “N-P-K ratio”). The three numbers represent those three nutrients.

The first number represents the proportion of nitrogen in the fertilizer. Nitrogen encourages leaf growth (rather than blossoming or fruit development.)

In tomatoes, excess leaf growth discourages blossoms and fruit. A lower number of nitrogen in this fertilizer is a good indicator that it is suitable for midseason tomatoes.

Phosphorus (the second number in the N-P-K ratio) encourages flowering, and therefore fruiting. This benefits midseason tomato plants.

Once a tomato plant starts flowering and fruiting, it needs a higher ratio of potassium for fruit to develop (the third number in the N-P-K ratio). The strong third number in this fertilizer indicates that it will help tomato plants produce healthy, quality fruit mid- to late season.

Find out more about kinds of tomato fertilizer so you can have healthy, productive fruit all season long … and check out other options for feeding tomatoes on our FertilizingTomatoes Pinterest board.

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Don’t Let Your Tomatoes Go Hungry!

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