Growing Tomatoes in Containers
Fill the pot 3/4 full with a good, high-quality organic potting mix. Foxfarm's Ocean Forest potting mix is excellent for tomatoes, but it gets expensive if you're growing more than a few plants. I mix my own (if you go to my container gardening gallery, you can find the recipe.
I like to build all the fertilizer in at the beginning, so all I have to do is water, prune, and tie for the rest of the season. It's like winding up a clock. For tomatoes, I add organic soil amendments like alfalfa meal for quick nitrogen, feather meal for late-season nitrogen, fish bone meal for phosphorous and calcium, greensand for potassium, and oyster shell flour for additional calcium. A small amount of each.
I top it off with a couple of quarts of fresh worm castings, with live worms. Red compost worms convert organic nutrients in the potting mix into plant-available form, and contribute beneficial bacteria and fungi that turn potting soil into a water-holding, living soil. Photo by Steve Masley
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