Chemical tomato feed is a fertilizer that mainly contains nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium. Commercially available tomato feed manufacturers produce this in the best ratios for tomato growth and taste, so you don’t need to worry about what your tomato plant requires at every stage of growth.

Both employees and self-employed workers will pay less in National Insurance from next year, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced in today's Autumn Statement.Granular or pelletised tomato fertiliser is easy to use. It stores for a long time and is applied most usually by adding it to the compost or soil before you plant your tomato plants. You can also spread it over the compost while they are growing. Most of this type of tomato feed tends to be slow release. At least much slower than liquid or soluble based tomato feeds. Granular tomato feed can be organic or inorganic and they release as they dissolve into the soil or compost. Liquid Tomato Feed The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has today (Wednesday 22 November) announced a range of tax, benefits and savings measures. We round up the key announcements and what they mean for you. You can apply liquid tomato fertilizer by using a watering can and it lasts for a long time if you ensure the lid is securely fastened and stored in a cool, dry place avoiding direct sunlight. So don’t leave it on the shelf in the greenhouse!

Yes, coffee grounds can be used to make homemade tomato feed and are classified as organic fertilizer. They contain about 2% nitrogen as well as some phosphorus and potassium. These nutrients will be released slowly as the grounds decompose. So while adding coffee grounds will help. They don’t provide the full amount of nutrients that tomato plants need. They will, however, keep cats away from your tomatoes too. (there’s a random fact for you!) Can I use tomato feed for other vegetables and plants? And there is more. Water scarcity, which forces farmers to use lower quality irrigation water, often containing salt, leads to increases in soil salinity – something commercial tomato cultivars don't like. Higher ozone levels, meanwhile, make tomatoes more susceptible to diseases such as bacterial leaf spot . Domesticating crops, tomatoes included, has led to a huge loss of genetic diversity. Modern commercial cultivars may be fast to grow and easy to harvest, but genetically speaking they are plain vanilla. Just four highly homogenised crops – soybeans, rice, wheat and corn – dominate global agriculture, accounting for more than half of all the world's agricultural land.They are far from the only genes that could be used to give the humble tomato a boost. In 2020 Chinese and American scientists performed a genome-wide association study of 369 tomato cultivars, breeding lines and landraces, and pinpointed a gene called SlHAK20 as crucial for salt tolerance.