Another great informative video Gary. Thanks so much, Im going to use your method of side dressing.

Great information; appreciate your video blogs...reminded me to side dress the tomato plants with lime (going out there right now to do this :-).

Perfect, thanks for the info, it was just what I needed to know.

Gary. For gardening you are the best on KZfaq pal !! Love your videos!! Keep it going!!!

ahh, the ever-present cup of coffee when working out in the garden! My type of feller! I walk around with a cup everywhere I go!

Great video as always Gary! I just added some bone meal, with the blood meal that I put earlier in the season . Thanks for sharing!

thank you Gary :)

Thanks Gary, great video. By your recommendation I'm due right about now. I'm going to use Job's Organic Spikes cause I got them at the dollar store cheap.

Love it. Thanks! One question, if you have been watering every couple weeks with a fish emulsion water soluble fert do you still recommend side dressing at the times you mentioned in the video?

Thank you Gary! This the first year ever that I am attempting to grow tomatoes. So, I can use all the advise that I can get. Mine are looking great so far. I am looking forward to biting into something that does not taste like tomato flavored cardboard.

Thanks for the tips! So using the water soluble stuff is not so good? I usually use a slow release at time of planting and give them a feeding every couple weeks with a water fertilizer. I guess the fertilizer works even on top of the mulch?

Hi Gary, So I just added bout half cup of "lime/water " to my tomatoes , peppers & zucchini plants I planted a lil early 2 week May here in Western Maryland ..and there looking good ( besides the fact I planted early the birds picked my plants to pieces but didn't kill them, I planted same time they were building nests)!!! my question is I am assuming that the lime slurry is good for the entire garden but I wanted to ask you?? and do I want to add more lime on down the line maybe when multiple bloom starts???

Hi Gary, I do a compost tea every 2 weeks. Super easy. Spray and walk a way. Boogie brew is the brand I use. Have you ever done a compost tea?

Tips on Side Dressing when growing Tomatoes in 5 Gallon buckets? Only 12" inches across and worried I might do some damage being too close to stalk or root system? Cheers

This is my first year trying to grow organically. I put down Miracle grow garden soil, then planted peas, cucumbers along my fence line. I planted tomatoes of all shapes and sizes. My garden grows well most years. Now that I'm growing organically I am learning a lot from kim and you I heard to use crushed eggshells and Epsom salts? Can I use that instead of lime?

Hey Gary, I just have a question, I had a cucumber growing but it disappeared I thought that an animal ate it but the hole cucumber is gone as if someone harvested it and the same thing happened with one of my jalapeño that was on the bottom of the plant, the top ones are still there but the one in the bottom disappeared. I was wondering if you can help me protect my plants or maybe buy a spray that keeps animals away of my plants... Thank you!

lime is alkaline so will raise the ph of the soil. tomatoes do best in a ph of 6.2 to 6.8 range or so i am told so if your soil is neutral or a bit alkaline then adding lime may be counter productive. i checked my soil a couple years ago and it was right around 7. my tomatoes do well here but i would not want to raise that number any higher so do not add lime. last year i tried jobe's tomato and vegetable fertilizer with biozome and the plants loved it so i will be using it again. i had some tomatoes over 20 ounces and an early girl of 10 ounces so you can see they really loved the jobe's. my bell peppers loved it too and produced many large beautiful peppers. for anyone who is looking for an organic fertilizer they might want to consider the jobe's i used.

Could I add a small amount of powdered Lime to water and use it that way?

but what if I use steer manure? how do I fertilize correctly with manure? Also I use powdered lime is this ok?

thank for your video, very information and clear instruction with good explaination. I have a bottle of Dr. Earth, prebiotic, premium concentrate, red in bottle with a spray , 3-6-2. can I use it for tomato , and add some potsh (k) into the solution? , I did not see instruction in the bottle, thanks

well done. I never use high nitrogen it can burn and give you more leaves than fruit.

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Sorry for digging up an old video but still working my way through. I have a question - for sunken containers do you side dress 2/3 times a year and still feed the water fertilizer every week to 10 days? Or is it just plain water through the season with just side dressing for feed? I'm worried I may be overfeeding. Thanks again for all the videos, hope you are doing a tour soon, really interested in seeing this years peppers.

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What state are you in? I am in Colorado and our soil is alkaline and has clay so we need to add sulfur or it ties up iron and calcium (CSU). So it is not recommended to use lime or gypsum in soil. In soiless containers with peat moss then we need it.

I have been using miracle grow every week and plants do great but seems I get more leaves then tomatoes. I get about ten per plant. I side dressed 3 plants to see how they do. Its 12 12 5. Should I stop the miracle grow now? I assume I do but wasnt sure if its a supplement to the miracle grow.

If I am looking to put some epsom salt into my tomato garden, do you think I can just sprinkle it on top like this or should I mix it with a gallon or so of water? I saw your video about epsom salt but I was wondering if I could just sprinkle it. Thanks!

I need help can u make a vid because my tomato seedling is to tall and falling over and its leaves are super small I think it's done with

Hi Gary, do you also side dress your container tomatoes?

I remember that you said in your liquid fertilizer video to liquid fert feed tomatoes (and peppers, herbs and flowers too, I presume?) full strength every 2 weeks or 1/2 strength every week with your liquid fert recipe which I have been using. When I side dress should I skip the liquid fertilizer feeding? Will I harm my tomatoes if I do them in the same week? I had to pot up my tomatoes into much larger containers this week (bad planning on my part). Should I side dress fertilize them now or wait? I don't want to hurt them with too much "love". Thanks!

Any tips for overfertilized tomato plants in containers? I am new to gardening so up until about a few weeks ago, thought I had to feed it weekly, and so I did. Recently I noticed that some of the leaves are wilting though the fruits that are setting are coming nicely. Out of fear that the wilting was due to disease, I started hacking off some of the wilted leaves, but now I think I cut to much and the tomatos will be exposed to the sun as they mature...which I also hear is a bad thing. I used ecoscraps plant food 5-4-6 and then later switched to tomatotone 3-4-6, but because I thought "food was food" I didn't really consider the numbers. Have I caused irreversible damage to the poor little sucker?? And can I do something to limit the direct sun exposure to the fruits?

Thanks Gary My tomatoes are cat facing any ideas ? Only using compost tea but we've been getting a lot of rain. Had the same thing happen last year. This is my second year growing tomatoes.

I add a couple of inches of mulch around my tomatoes so do I need to move it out of the way to side dress or can I put it on top of the mulch and do u still use water soluble fertilizers every 7 to 10 days if u side dress? Thanks. I remember u did a video on a fast acting organic non soluble fertilizer but I can't find it. Was it the Epsoma tomato tone of the Epsoma vegetable and tomato one?

Gary, I may have missed it, but where do you live? State?

Is it okay to use a liquid 4-4-4 fertilizer when their are blooms and tomatoes are present?

Ok, concerned. My plants do not look like yours. They are heirlooms and I planted them based on the SFG method. Now I am wondering if this was not a good idea. Mine are no where near 7 ft yet have lots of fruit. Plant height is maybe a little over 5 ft. Also, plants do not have as many leaves. Do you think plantS require more nutrients due to close spacing? Also you suggested a 10-10-10 side dressing. I have seabird guano that is I 12-13-12(I'm guessing). Is this ok to side dress even though numbers are higher? Thanks so much for all the videos. Were you or are you a teacher/professor? If not, you would have been a good one. You explain things so well and you have a voice that draws attention. Have a great day. Thanks again.

Hmmm....do i have to water after the side dressing? If i don't will the fertilizer burn the plant? I abstain this morning from watering because I was planning to side dress today because I'm thinking watering is required after side dressing. Also, it's 2 week soluble fertilizing is due. In addition, it's also time to add some epsom salt. Would it be too much to side dress AND water with liquid soluble fertilizer at the same time? Should i dissolve the epsom salt into the liquid fertilizer or sprinkle it with the side dress? What do i do? The plants are at a stage whereby the tomatoes are just appearing. This will be it's 1st side dress other than the initial transplant. Btw, these 3 tomatoes plants are in 5 gal. containers & they are doing great. I also have 5 plants in a raise bed transplanted only a week later (no fruits yet, but there are flower buds), but the container plants are so much bigger. Thanks!

Um I already through it out it was turning Brown but I can't put a picture but I can do a new video and I have a new seedling coming up and I could show you it and the tomatoes I grown are saved seeds from tomatoes at the store and the brand is lipman tomatoes give me a while and I upload the video and it will be before 1 and 30 minutes ok

I like it : do not put fertilizer near the trunk of the plant.

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