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Help! I over-fertilized my tomatoes. Can I fix?

I have one of those self watering containers made for tomatoes. I put in a lot of miracle grow fertilizer 2 days ago. Today the leaves are brown and shriveled. But the plants themselves look strong. Is there a way to save my plants or did I kill them?

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  • 10 years ago
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    Over fertilizing burns up the root system and kills the plant it most likely is to late the plant may die the only option is removing the plant and re planting it in fresh soil or trying to over water the plant to wash the soil this may also kill the weekend plant I would go with re planting it in soil that has little to no fertilizer in it and see if it can come back on its own if the plant lives it may not produce any fruit or little. It also may come back 100 percent

  • 5 years ago

    you have the skill to marvel them right into a fruiting section by using rototilling gently around the roots, needless to say no longer hitting any of them. positioned air in the over-fertilized soil and definite, shake the vegetation up somewhat emotionally with the vibration. Water. you additionally can thoroughly rototill the section, take up this new fertilized mulch, and create a sparkling backyard mattress.

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