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Tomatoes need first aid

9 years ago

Until this year I've always had pretty good luck growing tomatoes. I mixed up organic fertilizer consisting of seed meal, dolomite line, rock phosphate/bone meal and kelp meal and put that into each hole before transplanting.

This year in mid-May I transplanted a half-dozen varieties without any fertilizer (in a hurry, health problems), planning to get around to it later on. Now nearly all the tomatoes look sick - stunted, yellow leaves - and one is dead. Except for the lack of fertilizer, the only difference I can think of is more shade because of weeds and volunteer foxgloves that I didn't yank at the start of the growing season.

Is there anything I can do to save these plants? Besides the ingredients I've used before, I also have on hand blood meal, horse and cow manure from last year, a bag of chicken manure and an ancient bottle of fish fertilizer. Two weeks ago I applied a little of the fish fertilizer, but since I was worried about burning the plants, I probably made the solution too weak.

Thanks for any suggestions. I sure won't make this mistake again.

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