nice. can we see some pictures of your plants ?

what soil / fertilizer(s) did you use ?

did you fungicide ?

MG stands for Miracle-Gro, a fertilizer. Been using it for 30 years myself with about the same results. I also amend my soil yearly with the grass clippings I use as mulch (free). Also lots of coffee grounds in the spring (free) and an annual dose of compost from our waste collection agency (also free).

Thank you qaguy.

Yes, of course, MG stands for Miracle-Gro, which can be fertilizer - probably billyberue is using this fertilizer - but can also be... soil.

I see Miracle-Gro has very few OMRI listed products.

Which MG fertilizer are you using ? There are 3 or 4 of them, that I know of.

Sey

Yes, MG does offer a myriad of plant food. Being the curious person I am, I went to MGs website and entered 'plant food' in their search engine. It returned 19 hits. Of course, some of them were variations on the theme (indoor food and indoor food sticks).

I use what seems to me to be the obvious choice, Miracle-Gro for tomatoes.

Nice results for me too!

No more organic for me. I want tomatoes, lots of them and producing til the frost. I went from Tomato Tone to MG for tomatoes thru my drip lines this year and was proactive in spraying, alternating weekly between Daconil and Copper since set out on Mothers' Day. I prune only the leaves that will touch the ground, nothing else, and use landscape fabric between rows with mulch covering anything the fabric doesn't. It must have made a difference as we are just now finishing up our 1st week of normal temps and dry weather, as the previous 4 weeks were very wet, cloudy and (way) below normal temps, which, I don't think is good tomato weather. But the season isn't half over yet, and I know it can all go downhill even quicker.

Hello everybody, my name is Steffie and I live in de Netherlands. I am new here and apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge I my crappy english.

my question relating the topic of this thread is: doesn't the use of such a strong fertilizer influence the flavour of the fruit? Has anyone ever tested that? Personally I would rate taste over size.

I have a theoretical view of it;

"K" is the magical letter of the alpha-bet

Not to get into an argument, but a statement like...

"No more organic for me. I want tomatoes, lots of them and producing til the frost."

... is just begging to be challenged!

If you aren't careful, such phrasing makes it sound like organic growers do not get tomatoes at all, and if they do, they certainly wouldn't get them `til frost lol.

And as you know, that is ridiculous. One of the favored arguments of those who use non-organic methods is that, other than the sources from which the products are derived, and the methods of production, chemically speaking, there is little difference between organic vs. synthetic fertilizers. Since that is the case, than what exactly does MG have that organic ferts lack?

If you have success with MG, by all means use it, and be honest with whom you choose to share. It may simply be that its formula fits well into what your soil lacks, or already possesses.

However, to intonate that organic fertilizers are somehow less able to produce the same results is a fallacy of epic proportions.

I grow organic. I use

- Neptune's Harvest Organic Fish and Seaweed Blend Fertilizer (2-3-1) and

- FoxFarm Big Bloom (0.01-0.3-0.7)

And they worked for me.

I love tomato
“jungles.” The frame in the picture bellow is 16 ft. wide x 12 ft. high. The tomato vines grew last year almost 20 ft. long.

Rose Tomato, 21 oz.

I prefer a 21 oz. Rose grow organic than a 31 oz. grow with MG. But that's just me.

Brandy Boy 18 oz.

Some tomatoes...

October 14, 2014... pretty late for New York area, but still producing.

I doubt that MG will make the production much longer.