[RichardA]

My tomato plants and others (cues, Aubs, peppers etc) doing well but look a bit pale. Light and tempurature are all OK. All in individual pots but perhaps a bit crowded as space is at a premium. Question then please --  Bearing in mind how little actual feed is in most composts these days does anyone feed small plants like this . If so with what?
R

[mattwragg94]

i only ever start to feed my toms when i see the first truss of flowers!

can i ask you where you keeping them please?

[Ice]

I feed mine when the first tomatoes have set, not as soon as the flowers appear.

[RichardA]

yes that is what I always understood to be the rule about feeding, presently some are on window cills in house and others in  6 foot by 3 foot propagator with undersand heating cables and glass sides and top  in greenhouse, I suspect low light levels in recent bad weather not helping
R

[DD.]

I suspect you answered your question in your post! 

but perhaps a bit crowded as space is at a premium.

They'll be fighting for light and nutrients. Extra feed won't help if they can't get the light.

[casper]

Can I say pop some foil behind   

[casper]

Not inbetween 

[mrs mud]

I tend to pot on into slightly larger pots maybe three times before final planting so they get a new burst of compost each time which hopefully keeps them happy for a while

[casper]

Yes these are in their second home but think maybe compost tired, so job to do at the weekend when the lads go to Wembley. How peaceful lottie all day, potting on and wine o clock in the evening 

[Mrs Bee]

I think Monty said in one of the progs, last year that if the plants are in the original sowing compost for  a while and you can't pot on that you should give them a diluted feed of a general purpose soluble fertiliser. 

 

[DD.]

Oh come on. I've done 276 clumps of lobelia in the last two days!

[casper]

Sorry just deleted the last as I realised I had gaet crashed. Haha nobody knows what your on about now 

[casper]

For you here it is again. Fertiliser would buy me time. I wont pot them all on as I would have to pot over 100 of them and I would lose the will to live   

[devonbarmygardener]

I tend to pot on into slightly larger pots maybe three times before final planting so they get a new burst of compost each time which hopefully keeps them happy for a while

I do this too. I then feed them when the first truss is set.
When I put them in their final places I use a mixture of good all purpose compost and manure - they seem to like that.
Emma