What fertiliser for Toms and Cucumbers

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    Hi could someone give me advice/recommend what feed I should give to my tomatoes and cucumbers. My plants live in a greenhouse and are planted directly into soil not grow bags. Before I planted, I worked/dug in plenty of blood fish and bone and chicken manure pellets to fertilise the soil before planting.
     
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    Once they have flowered use something with a high Potash content, they are usually advertised as "Tomato fertilizers" and named something like 'Tomorite' - beware these are expensive and in pound shops you can buy the exact same thing - just compare the N:P:K ratio (Tomorite is 4:3:8). I often get the Wilko liquid feed, currently I have a stock of Phostrogen Tomato Feed (12:5:24) bought in the winter sales.
     
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      Comfrey tea. Get comfrey leaves and submerge in water for 6 weeks or so. Then mix 1 part to 10 parts water and feed plants. Beware it does stink like a dead dog.

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        High potash on toms and high nitrogen on cues.:smile:
         
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          My gran said something about soaking a load of nettles in a bucket of water for a few weeks and using the brew off that. Anyone tried that? She said the toms were sweeter than ever.
           
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            Yes it's similar to the Comfrey Tea that rustyroots described above. It is a good organic alternative to bought in chemicals if you don't mind the stink.
             
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              Nettle tea has high iron trace and toms are not to keen, it is better used for leafy plants.

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                My cucs and toms get fed with homebrew comfrey and they both do well on it. I cut and brew over one year and use it as feed the next.
                 
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