How to fertilize and maintain your tomatoes - this week in the patch

[@ImGlyn]

Thanks Anthony for this! My Tomats have only just gone into the ground undercover last week, but it's great to have your guidance going forwards 👍

[@Pachinko1]

Perfect timing thanks. I’ve just planted my seedlings and know what to try this year!

[@davidtapp4718]

Hi Anthony, great to see your crops advancing. You can ignore me if you want but I have grown vegies at some level since I was a teenager. One thing I have noticed is when you pour water onto any plant without a rose head, it slows down or even injures the plant. If you had some mulch it would help too. But pouring water onto any plant (not just vegies), seems to injure the plant, or maybe the soil. Either way they just don't like it. It has certainly been my experience anyway.. Also, every season I add compost, blood and bone and trace elements to the soil before planting anything. That way, during the growing season I don't have to add any minerals. Just seasol and powerfeed, mixed together in the one watering can. Thankyou for your tips and videos. Nice to watch an Australian garden in real time!

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

Thanks for the tips mate. Yeah I should have used the rose couldn’t find it when I was filming I usually use the hose on low flow for watering. On fertilising I have been trying to fine tune it every season to see what works best. I have been adding compost both homemade or manures before every planting but I have started personally moving away from blood and bone. I’m always looking for ideas from experienced gardeners how they fertilise their plants during the season so I’m keen to hear from you and others how they approach it. Thanks for watching 👍

[@Silvia-pv1ls]

Thank you for another great video that shares your expertise so freely. I’m grateful to receive good gardening education. ❤️

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

Thanks for the kind comment and appreciate you watching my videos 👍

[@risslittleveggiepatch]

Great video Anthony! Your tomatoes are looking great as are your cabbages! Thanks for the tips on fertilising!

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

Hope it works out for you 👍

[@glennstevenson6242]

Thank you again for the great info Anthony.

[@cazmarsh6395]

Awesome timing I need to do mine this weekend.

[@mudmaker2133]

Hi Anthony, thank you for the tip with the epsom salts. I have always struggled when I had seedlings that looked like yours they never really bounced back but yours look great. Jacqui

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

Yeah it works on cucumbers as well and also capsicums especially when they are first planted out best of luck with it 👍

[@annettepearce1690]

Thank you for tip of epson salts. A few of my tomatoes transplants are looking a bit sad.

[@levenscott645]

Excellent advice.

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

Thanks for watching 👍

[@risasgardentokitchen]

Hi 👋 this is my first time on your channel. I have a garden and I am not having any luck with my tomatoes this year. I. Learned a lot from you today.Thank you so much for sharing. New subscribe here ❤.

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

Best of luck with your tomatoes this year 👍

[@tonytrunzo-qn3qz]

great garden you got

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

Thanks tony appreciate the kind comment 👍

[@dnawormcastings]

Wow my tomato plants are going yellow so lm going to epsom salts on them 👍

[@keithhilton8869]

Hi Anthony, your plants are looking healthy but there's always one. While I know you don't use sticky traps I checked mine yesterday. I use them more of an indicator. After being out for 3 days, I was so surprised to so many fruit fly on them. Maybe we're in for a bad season this year with these little bxxxx. Cheers Mate.

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

Yeah I think the fruit flies are going to be bad in my garden as well I have been seeing a few around as well. I have some of that pheromone attractant that I will put out to capture the males and I will also be putting out some homemade traps using orange juice and ammonia as the attractant hopefully I can get on top of them

[@keithhilton8869]

@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 Great idea.

[@leoneloechner3160]

Thanks Anthony, love your video. You may find that the tomatoes may not do very well beside the cabbages as cabbages are what they call allelopathic. This means that the cabbages actively impede the growth of other plants around them, they do this chemically. But you can research this further if the topic is of interest. L.

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

Thanks for this mate. Really keen on learning more about this I will definitely look this up👍

[@jocelynocampo9762]

😊

[@diceclay1406]

Great videos Anthony. Quick question if I may, what chicken pellet brand do you use? You mentioned you use chicken manure pellets. Thanks so much.

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

Hi mate thanks for watching. All chicken manure pellets are the same I generally use agriboost pellets in the 25kg bags ( they make dynamic lifter but this brand is generally geared to farmers so it is sold in bulk) I really try to find the best value for money in my gardening so I buy a lot in bulk bags. I will go for the cheapest but I will compare first the NPK to make sure I am getting what I pay for

[@mannbat]

Looks good Anthony! Have you tried epsom salts with your chlli & capsicum transplants? I find mine take weeks to recover after transplanting, even under the most favourable of conditions.

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

I’ve done it with cucumbers and tomatoes. It wouldn’t hurt giving it a go. They could be struggling a bit though as the need more heat than tomatoes

[@mannbat]

@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 Thanks. I'll give it a shot when I transplant them this weekend.

[@richardaoun5124]

Great job Anthony!! Keep it up. How many chooks do you have? Thank you

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

I have almost 12 birds but some of them are old layers that I haven’t had the heart to get rid off so they hang around and I let them enjoy their life in the garden

[@uppanadam]

Our first 29 degree Celsis day tomorrow!! Should be interesting!! 🙂!!

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

Time to start spring plantings!

[@uppanadam]

@@sydneybackyardveggies9612 Going to Bunnings on the weekend!! LOL!! 😀!!

[@renaedownie6660]

Does the epsom salts also work for beans? I have noticed my beans starting to go yellow just like ur tomatoes did

[@NaomiJane80]

Will the epson salts work on cucumbers? My cucumbers since transplanting are a little sad have used seaweed solution but has not shown effect as yet

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

Definitely it will work on cucumbers. I use it mostly for them especially when I first transplant them out

[@traceyTibbles07]

How does this differ if tomatoes are in containers?

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

With tomatoes in containers I would try planting them deeper and if you can add more soil around the base do so. The fertilisier you use is still the same just water more often

[@dnawormcastings]

Wow my tomato plants are going yellow so lm going to epsom salts on them 👍

[@sydneybackyardveggies9612]

Yeah I hope it works out well for you mate