You might recall that last yr I rana little experimentation in my love apple patch . I grew 12 dissimilar tomato plants and separated them into four groups of three plant . Each grouping received a unlike organic fertiliser ( or none at all ) throughout the produce time of year . I wanted to see if there were any noticeable differences in the growth and production of the plants that might be assign to its fertilization program . Here are my results ( unscientific as they may be ):
Truthfully , there were only subtle divergence in the development rate and production of all the fertilise plants . For sure , the ones that received no plant food at all were smaller and showed signs ofearly blighta few week forwards of the rest of the plant . The unfertilized I also produced less yield , but that might not be exclusively due to their lack of fertiliser — it could also be because of thetomato varietiesI selected .
I would say that the plant life that perform best were those fertilized with a cup of constituent granular fertilizer at the starting signal of the time of year , followed by another cupful at the oddment of July . I use a merchandise called ReVita Compost Plus with an N - P - K ratio of 3 - 3 - 3 . I usually add this to my entire veggie garden each year , along with a few inches ofcompost , but do n’t often fertilise each specific flora . This yr , however , I ’m going to follow this traffic pattern with all my tomatoes , peppers andeggplants . The rest of the garden has already receive a sprinkling of it .
Those industrial plant fertilise with my homemade blend did pretty well , too , though they did n’t grow quite as bushy as those that received the commercial-grade blend . Their product was great , though . Again , I added a cup at the outset of the season and then another at the end of July .
The plants inseminate with theliquid Pisces emulsiondid fantastic in heed to both resisting blight and continue to make beautiful foliage throughout the season . Their fruit production was distinctive , but the foliage stay on attractive far longer than those plants fertilized with granular Cartesian product . I used the fish emulsion once every two or three week and put on it to both the foliage and the tooth root zone .
This class , I ’m going to practice the ReVita and the fish emulsion together on all of my plants and see if I can commingle the positivist attributes of both . My hope is that I ’ll have fantabulous yields and beautiful , disease - immune leafage . Here ’s hoping !
