I transplanted tomato starters (young plants) in raised garden beds 15 days ago. They seem to be doing well so far mostly. However I am seeing some yellow leaves on the bottoms of a few of my plants but only on my heirloom variety. My cherry tomatoes are not having this issue.
When transplanted I use granular fertilizer – organic mater magic. I also recently bought organic liquid fertilizer but have been afraid to use any because I read you shouldn’t fertilize until 4-6 weeks after transplanting. Is this true? I wondered if the yellow leaves were from a lack of nitrogen but wouldn’t that affect all my plants? Not just the heirloom?
Also I have been seeing a lot of yellow sprouts but read to pick them off at first until the plant gets taller but I am seeing conflicting advice on that as well. Any help would be appreciated!
Pics attached. First is the heirloom variety and second pic is the cherry tomatoes. Thank you.
by generic_username19
3 Comments
Pee in your watering vessel and then water them.
Heirloom variety may not be as efficient at taking nitrogen so not necessarily a determining factor there.
It’s no problem. Just gently pinch those off. They look good!
I would leave the buds alone. Tomatoes have a very short season in TX because the fruits will stop setting during high temp and humidity, which will realistically only give you a month or two of growing season. So I’d start feeding it any tomatoes or fruit/flower fertilizer instead of a high Nitrogen fertilizer. Also, those cages you have in the pics are flimsy and won’t last very long. Invest in some good cages if you are serious about growing tomatoes.