Fertilizing is a fairly delicate balance. The yellowed leaves indicate a lack of nitrogen, and the leaves with browning edges indicate a sort of nitrogen poisoning or over-fertilization.
I never fertilize anything when I transplant it. I give it a week or so to get acclimated before fertilizing it. That allows me to see what the soil already has in it, to know what the plant needs added.
For tomatoes, Miracle-Gro makes a fine fertilizer with a good balance of minerals for the plants. As an aside, Miracle-Gro tomato fertilizer also works well for cannabis in it's vegetative stage.
I use the sort of Miracle-Gro that is intended for the sprayer heads, but I don't use it in the intended way. Instead, I have an empty gallon plastic milk jug that I fill to about 90% to leave a little room, and put a scoop of the fertilizer in the water, cap it,and shake it up to a vibrant blue color. Depending on the plant type, a gallon of it will do probably 20 or 25 plants after they're set out into the ground. It doesn't take a lot.
Once a week is usually enough unless I notice some yellowing leaves, and then I switch to twice a week until it's all greened up again. No more than twice a week though, or they'll burn up.
Also realize that as the plant grows and ages, the lower leaves will naturally yellow and die as they come to the end of their life. They should be replaced with new, vigorous growth from the tips of the plants.
The only tomatoes I grew last year were "cherry" tomatoes, but I had a ton of them in the end. Bell peppers I've not had so much luck with. The biggest one I've been able to grow in the last couple years was about the size of a golf ball, not worth the effort.
I've been slack this year. So far, the only thing I've even gotten started is the Native Tobacco. The catnip is jumping out from the ruins of last year's plants, so I probably won't start any of it, as it seems to be taking off on it's own. I usually grow some basil every year too, but never use it, so I question the wisdom of even starting any this year. My sage bushes are not doing well, which I blame on their location, so I may start some new sage and pick a different place to site it.
Corn and beans, I dunno. I'm not real big on sweet corn, and haven't got any dent or flint to try growing, so I may just live without it. I grew some butternut squash last year, but never figured out what you're supposed to do with it after you've picked it, so it went to waste - except I saved seed from it, just in case I figured out how to cook it.
I've got some Cherokee black beans, and some kind of white bean, but may try to get some other kind.
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I never fertilize anything when I transplant it. I give it a week or so to get acclimated before fertilizing it. That allows me to see what the soil already has in it, to know what the plant needs added.
For tomatoes, Miracle-Gro makes a fine fertilizer with a good balance of minerals for the plants. As an aside, Miracle-Gro tomato fertilizer also works well for cannabis in it's vegetative stage.
I use the sort of Miracle-Gro that is intended for the sprayer heads, but I don't use it in the intended way. Instead, I have an empty gallon plastic milk jug that I fill to about 90% to leave a little room, and put a scoop of the fertilizer in the water, cap it,and shake it up to a vibrant blue color. Depending on the plant type, a gallon of it will do probably 20 or 25 plants after they're set out into the ground. It doesn't take a lot.
Once a week is usually enough unless I notice some yellowing leaves, and then I switch to twice a week until it's all greened up again. No more than twice a week though, or they'll burn up.
Also realize that as the plant grows and ages, the lower leaves will naturally yellow and die as they come to the end of their life. They should be replaced with new, vigorous growth from the tips of the plants.
The only tomatoes I grew last year were "cherry" tomatoes, but I had a ton of them in the end. Bell peppers I've not had so much luck with. The biggest one I've been able to grow in the last couple years was about the size of a golf ball, not worth the effort.
I've been slack this year. So far, the only thing I've even gotten started is the Native Tobacco. The catnip is jumping out from the ruins of last year's plants, so I probably won't start any of it, as it seems to be taking off on it's own. I usually grow some basil every year too, but never use it, so I question the wisdom of even starting any this year. My sage bushes are not doing well, which I blame on their location, so I may start some new sage and pick a different place to site it.
Corn and beans, I dunno. I'm not real big on sweet corn, and haven't got any dent or flint to try growing, so I may just live without it. I grew some butternut squash last year, but never figured out what you're supposed to do with it after you've picked it, so it went to waste - except I saved seed from it, just in case I figured out how to cook it.
I've got some Cherokee black beans, and some kind of white bean, but may try to get some other kind.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake