When & How (How Often) to Side Dress Your Tomato Plants with Organic Fertilizer: Two Minute TRG Tips

A side dressing is placing granular fertilizer or compost along the sides of your plants. I show you when and how I side dress my tomato plants with an organic granular fertilizer.

My New Book: The Modern Homestead Garden: Growing Self-Sufficiency in Any Size Backyard.

You can find it at these different locations... Thanks 4 the Support!

Please Help Support My Channel: The Rusted Garden Homestead - Thanks!

Follow me on Instagram:

I now have an Amazon Influencer's Storefront. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. It is free to use.

I put the products I use, in videos, there and have gardening products set up by categories. Here are the direct links by description.

Great Gifts for Gardeners in Your Life

Products in My 2020 YouTube Videos

Seed Starting Supplies and Grow-Light Stations

Containers, Pots and Small Greenhouses

Better Greenhouses, Shade Cloth, Tunnels & Cold Frames

Fertilizers & Amendments: Indoor and Outdoor Gardening

Disease and Pest Management

Garden Tools: The Rusted Garden

Gardening Books and Resources

Products I Use and Recommend. I have an affiliation with them:

Grow Your Own Mushrooms!

[THERUSTEDGARDEN]

My New Book: The Modern Homestead Garden: Growing Self-Sufficiency in Any Size Backyard.
You can find it at these different locations... Thanks 4 the Support!

[takishasage-freebeautyzone]

Your tomatoes are looking lovely as always!

[ceecee-thetransplantedgardener]

Right on time! Thank you! PS: Your plants are drop-dead photogenic!

[amyk]

Your such a laid back, go with the flow gardener like me. I so appreciate that. What kind of fertilizer do you use for your side dressing?

[stevenlehmann]

Just got my second delfrom your seed shop, fast delivery and am pleased with the first order that is currently producing in my garden

[dustin]

2021 is certainly my year for tomatoes. I regret not finding your channel and website sooner but I'm in this for more than a year so I'll definitely add some of your items to cart in the future. 😁

I love your quick videos! I'd rather watch your 2 minute videos 3 times as opposed to a 10 minute video for a tip I already knew. 😆

[karthika]

Thankyou I followed this for my tomato plants, can you make video for chilli plant growth, tips fertilizers

[divinazamora-bibay]

When and how do you do side dressing when they are in fabric pots?

[petezahutt]

Hi Gary, your plants look good, I also side dress with compost or fresh worm compost casting as well, glad I started raising worms and rabbits best thing for a garden.

[pablomanz]

I told my wife that you have exactly the homestead that I always wanted and made her watch your video. 😂

[homesteadinginalabama]

Thanks! That is exactly the information I was looking for!👍🏼

[olivegobin]

I love how your plants look so green, my tomatoes all have brown leaves on the bottom should I be giving them fertilizer? They all have tomatoes .I am wondering if it's the heat, I live in Central Florida. Thanks for all the info.

[sonub]

Does this apply to determinate and indeterminate varieties? If not would you be making a 2 minutes tip for determinate? Thanks again for all you do. Loving the book so far.

[debiegordon]

What about a little home made compost while they are 1 ft tall as a dressing?

[kimmcdonagh]

Lol. The cicadas still make me laugh.
I moved to a state that doesn't have them...and I miss them, believe it or not.

[adedoyinadenuga]

I thought you always have to remove the mulch for side dressing fertilizer and cover it back. Also that is what I read in book and garden literature.

[diannaduemler]

What would you do if your plants were under plastic mesh mulch?

can i broadcast fertilizer as you show if i am using preforated stick landscape fabric as mulch?

[darshanpatel]

Hey Gary for some reason there’s some weird yellowing on my pepper plants. Can I send you a picture of the plant?

[juliusnathan]

Hello again..the temperature here in Vegas is rising and reaching to almost 105 degree Fahrenheit, so I decided to buy sun block mesh and cover my raised beds. I am growing tomatoes, cucumber, okra, bush beans, sweet corn all in raised beds.
So my question is will the sunblock mesh reduce or effect the growth of the plants?