Fertilizer

[Christian]

I am planning a vegetable garden using soil that's never been used. We have good soil. Is fertilizer necessary the first year for tomatoes?

 

[Esther Knapicius]

myself, we do not do veggies. but surrounding me are tons of Amish farms. one thing they do is lay down a coating of lime in the winter so it leaches in the soil through the winter snow naturally. Lime will make the veggies/crop sweeter.

 

[Becky]

Might be worth getting yourself a soil testing kit to see what your pH is, and whether your soil is deficient in anything.

 

[Chuck]

I am planning a vegetable garden using soil that's never been used. We have good soil. Is fertilizer necessary the first year for tomatoes?

How do you know that the soil is good if it has never been been used. I would hate to go to all the trouble to till up the soil and plant only later to find out something is lacking. The prudent thing to do is have the soil tested but gardeners have been gardening a lot longer than there has been soil testing. We do know one thing for sure and that is that all plants need NPK. I would till in a balanced organic fertilizer as I was building the garden and also adding copious amounts of organic material at the same time.

 

[headfullofbees]

Only a pinch of lime, and dolomite lime at that, (for the magnesium) tomatoes like an acid soil.

What is soil that has never been used? I've never heard of it.
Have weeds/grass/flowers never used it?
Have you bought it in?