repotted tomatoes

My tomato plants are beginning to show signs of flowering, so yesterday i repotted them into big pots and staked them. Meaning they have to stay outside.

I'm putting them in the shed overnight, it seems to retain warmth. Hopefully they will survive!

Do I need to buy special tomato plant food or will any plant food work? How frequently do they need plant food?

 

Tomato feed is better, I don't usually feed until the fruits have set. But I make my own out of nettles & seaweed.

 

Thanks ziggy, I'll invest when I'm next out

 

Like Ziggy, I make my own from Comfrey that I grow, but I feed almost every day with a very,very weak solution.

My thought is this, if I feed once a week (which is typical advice), I will spend the next 6 days "washing" that feed away (sometimes twice a day) as I water normally. So I prefer to make sure some feed is always present in the soil. They still get the same amount of feed a week, but they get it daily.

Steve...

 

I buy liquid tomato feed but do exactly the same and have always had perfect results.

 

Thank you!

 

Don't rush to buy Tomorite - it works out expensive (although if you only have a few plants, and a small bottle will do you "for the season", then I don't suppose it makes much odds).

Brand X Tomato fertiliser is going to be much the same thing as Tomorite, and cheaper. Cheaper still will be to buy a granular fertiliser (slightly more tedious to mix up and get to dissolve, but not significantly more so, and a lot cheaper [per dissolved "ready to use" litre])

 

Agree, you are paying for the name. Look at the content label, £shop tomato fertiliser is much the same as proprietary brands.