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Thread ID: 126150	2012-08-10 22:31:00	Gardening - spring time.	Nomad (952)	PC World Chat

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1293958	2012-08-10 22:31:00	I am getting back into it ... I have read that they say we should replace them with fresh compost each year .. do you guys do that? And, do you get use specialised compost such as strawberry and tomato compost (not feed)? Also a diff question, for tomatoes, we could use the below instead of tomato food? www.yates.co.nz Dig the soil to one good spade’s depth up to 3 months before planting. Mix in some well-aged manure or compost. About 6 weeks later, dig in some Yates Garden Lime. Plant tomato seedlings and water in well. Feed every week with Yates Thrive Soluble Plant Food Control pests and diseases with Guardall. :thanks: :D	Nomad (952)
1293959	2012-08-10 22:49:00	as I understand it yes you're supposed to crop cycle things like tomatoes, it's been years since I did any gardening (for lack of a garden) but you tend to get diseases from planting stuff in the same place each time. If you're planting just in pots I imagine yes a full change of compost would be needed, or at least plant something else in them and get another set of pots for new tomatoes.	8ftmetalhaed (14526)
1293960	2012-08-10 22:50:00	We were using the no dig method where you you just keep putting more compost on top and only using our own made compost as our garden was organic. But since we have rented the house out and moved away for a year who knows what's going to happen to it. We had one of our best summers for veg last year using this method and it works for me as with a stuffed shoulder I can't really dig. You do need to rotate crops though and remember spuds and tomatoes are from the same family	gary67 (56)
1293961	2012-08-10 23:19:00	I have read that they say we should replace them with fresh compost each year . . do you guys do that? And, do you get use specialised compost such as strawberry and tomato compost (not feed)? Also a diff question, for tomatoes, we could use the below instead of tomato food? . yates . co . nz/tomatoes" target="_blank">www . yates . co . nz Dig the soil to one good spade’s depth up to 3 months before planting . Mix in some well-aged manure or compost . About 6 weeks later, dig in some Yates Garden Lime . Plant tomato seedlings and water in well . Feed every week with Yates Thrive Soluble Plant Food Control pests and diseases with Guardall . :thanks: :D No, a bit, but as fresh manure and compost are added and dug in, we don't really . Specilaised, no . Manure, chook or sheep preferably . Compost - home made . Dolomite lime for those bits that need it .	pctek (84)
1293962	2012-08-10 23:43:00	When I use to grow tomatoes I grew them from seed. Planted them in pots in the wash house which was warm and sunny. Planted them about the beginning of September and were ready to plant out labour weekend under cover until they became established or the whether warmed up. Found that if you planted before labour weekend was a waste of time as the soil wasn't warm enough and they just sat there doing nothing. In Wellington that time would be a bit later. Used plenty of fertilizer. :)	Trev (427)
1293963	2012-08-11 02:20:00	The main thing with tomatoes is not to overfertilise, especially nitrogen fertiliser. The plants go vegetative and forget about fruiting. Some well balanced compost worked into the soil should be enough. wood ash(untreated) and a bit of superphosphate in small amounts, if you can be bothered, will give a bit moe "oomph" to the plants. I use Neem Oil for the bugs.	PPp (9511)
1293964	2012-08-11 03:27:00	We were using the no dig method where you you just keep putting more compost on top and only using our own made compost as our garden was organic. But since we have rented the house out and moved away for a year who knows what's going to happen to it. We had one of our best summers for veg last year using this method and it works for me as with a stuffed shoulder I can't really dig. You do need to rotate crops though and remember spuds and tomatoes are from the same family +1 A good guide to this is Esther Deans Gardening Book-Growing Without Digging. We use Rotted gorse, worm compost and rushes from our wetland. Plus whatever we can scrounge from local farms (left in a pile for a year to weather). Fresh veges and fruit (and so us) deserve to not be bathed in synthetic petrochemicals IMHO.	KarameaDave (15222)
1293965	2012-08-11 06:30:00	Over the winter months we just dig in the compost from the previous years compost heap. This time year still chance of some frosts to break up the soil and get rid of the weeds/roots etc. Spring for us is a bit later after the risk of the potential for snowfall is when we start planting out October onwards. This year might score some luck with a free aerial spread of fertiliser before the growing season :)	coldfront (15814)
1293966	2012-08-11 09:33:00	I dig the soil out from last years crop and fill in the trench with compost made mainly from grass clippings and household scraps. Last year I put some Root Blast in the hole when I planted the tomato plants. I had the best crop that I have had for a year or two. I always plant them against the house where they are sheltered from the wind and get plenty of sun.	Bobh (5192)
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