PLANTING
After planting your tomato plant, make your first application of Hi-Yield® Calcium Nitrate.
Apply your first application of ferti•lome® Blooming & Rooting, repeat applications 2 more times 3 to 4 days apart.
Apply Hi-Yield® Vegetable & Ornamental Insect Control if you have cutworms.
BLOSSOMS
When blossoms start to grow, but aren’t yet forming fruit, apply
ferti•lome® Tomato & Pepper Set to flower. Make at least 3 applications 7 to 10 days apart.
FRUIT STARTS FORMING
(When little tomatoes are the size of a quarter)
Make 2nd application of Hi-Yield® Calcium Nitrate, repeat again in 3 weeks.
Make 1st application of ferti•lome Tomato and Vegetable Food after the first tomatoes start forming, repeat monthly. This helps increase root growth, plant size and yields. Get more from your tomatoes!
BLOSSOM END ROT
If you get Blossom End Rot, apply Hi-Yield® Calcium Nitrate; repeat 2 more times, 2 weeks apart.
Also apply ferti•lome® Yield Booster to small fruit, up to a little bigger than a quarter.
Applications to larger fruit or foliage are ineffective. Make 2 or 3 applications 7 days apart.
FUNGUS LEAF SPOT OR EARLY BLIGHT
These two fungi cause spots on the leaves, slowly killing the leaf. It always starts at the bottom of the plant and works its way up, killing leaves the whole way, eventually reducing yield.
To prevent these fungus and bacterial issues, alternate between ferti•lome "Green" Label Copper Fungicide and ferti•lome "Green" Label Fungicide 5. Make 2 or 3 applications of each; Copper Fungicide applied 7 to 10 days apart, ferti•lome "Green" Label Fungicide 5, 3 to 5 days apart.
To prevent only the fungus, apply ferti•lome® Broad Spectrum Fungicide. Make 2 or 3 applications 7 to 10 days apart.
TOMATO HORNWORM
Tomato hornworm is a common worm insect of tomatoes. Apply the natural product, ferti•lome® "Green" Label Spinosad or ferti•lome® "Green" Label Spinosad Soap. Make 2 applications 4 to 7 days apart.
ferti•lome® Spinosad Soap is also effective on aphids, flea beetles, spidermites, ants and more.
GENERAL INSECTS
As a hard chemistry option apply Hi-Yield® Garden & Farm Spray or
Hi-Yield® Garden, Pet & Livestock Dust (although this is not particularly effective on worms).
WEED CONTROL
If weed control is needed, start in the spring and apply Hi-Yield Herbicide Granules. If you are working it into the soil reapply every 6 to 8 weeks. If you are just sprinkling on the surface and watering in, reapply every 4 weeks.
Want to read more about growing Tomatoes? Check out these articles:
Blossom End Rot
Growing Tomatoes