Comments on: Fertilizer Test

By: Barbara Potts

Barbara Potts — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:32:53 +0000

This year I grew tomatoes and lots of herbs. Like everyone else had to do a lot of watering.The only thing I rely on to feed my plants is compost. I think they could use a little boost from Jobes Organic Fertilizer.

By: Ruby Edmondson

Ruby Edmondson — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:03:05 +0000

I have large staked tomatoes plants with no tomatoes on them. Please help.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Ruby Edmondson

By: Ronna F

Ronna F — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:46:37 +0000

The extreme heat has affected my garden this year. I’m getting some tomatoes, peppers and zucchini. My cucumbers have done very well! I made Bread and Butter Pickles twice! I think I could use this fertilizer! It would help me a lot!

By: David B Gadberry

David B Gadberry — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:43:18 +0000

Our tomato plants are producing after the hot dry summer in southern Indiana. Had to keep watering and feeding daily/monthly. My cukes took the blow! My rose bushes seem to enjoy the heat by producing flowers in abundance. Thanks

By: Liz Mitchell

Liz Mitchell — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:35:12 +0000

Mid-Missouri has certainly been hot + dry! Our community garden had a tour at the end of June so we got into a watering routine early enough to prevent too many problems from drought. The heat, however, has prevented some crops from setting fruit. When we get a cool night or 2 (below 70 F) I get a cucumber or 2 forming, then the hotter nights come + the cukes don’t. Beans have been less plentiful than usual. On the other hand, my okra, eggplant, + peppers have been very prolific + seem to love the heat.

By: Nancy Avery

Nancy Avery — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:54:53 +0000

Would like to join the organice band wagon, please convince me, thanks!

By: kay wolter

kay wolter — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 04:20:59 +0000

My garden needs to be updated and cared for…

By: Susan Shrum

Susan Shrum — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 03:58:09 +0000

I would love to try Jobe’s Organics! This year I experimented with a rooftop garden using Grow Box self-fertilizing planters after reading your blog about them a few months ago. Results have been great for the Pacific Northwest climate, but I would like to substitute an organic fertilizer next year to see if it compares. Sign me up!

By: Roberta

Roberta — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 03:28:51 +0000

I don’t know if my email was sent or if I accidentally deleted it.
I would love to try Jobes Organic Fertilizer for my vegetables!

My garden has done incredibly well in spite of the unbearable heat, 120 in the shade in our back yard, and I was very late planting this year.

We put a load of compost (from a mushroom plant about 70 miles from our hometown) in our garden and it was the best thing we could have done for that tired old soil. My tomatoes and peppers are still doing very well although they are starting to show some end rot. I put crushed eggshells around the tomatoes that have end rot and bonemeal and eggshells around the peppers. I’ve only gotten two eggplants and had a zucchini plant that was very productive until it got borers.

I have a small greenhouse so the only plants I purchased were four “Champion” tomatoes and four jalapeno plants. I thought it would be fun to try growing some different things in my garden. I have three celery plants and two artichoke plants that survived the seed plantings. I think I planted the artichokes too late because they just don’t seem to be getting as tall as they are supposed to but it is fun watching the celery grow. Maybe the artichokes need the Jobes Fertilizer…

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:06:55 +0000

this heat has taken a toll on my garden! My zuchinni has sizzled and my tomatoes are getting a big black rot spot….but the lemon cucumbers have taken over and begun an invasion into the neighbors yard! I am so ready for FALL and pretty mums and pumpkins!

By: Rhonda Curbo

Rhonda Curbo — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:02:21 +0000

I had an abundance of tomatoes early in the season, but no amount of water could keep them more than barely alive. I guess city water has too much chlorine for them. They are still alive, but just barely. My peppers are still growing and have made very pretty plants. However, there is little fruit. The basil is doing GREAT, though! It must like the heat, and it attracts honeybees when it blooms.

Rain please . . .

By: Flybabymom

Flybabymom — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:06:13 +0000

My garden isn’t growing yet! We moved into our house in April and the only thing I’ve planted so far is a Rose of Sharon. But I have big plans, and I think we’ll be able to get started on the yard and garden this fall. Can’t wait to see beautiful flowers and veggies growing in harmony!

By: Nell McRae

Nell McRae — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:49:21 +0000

My raised bed in Charlotte, NC has had a sad summer due to drought, heat, raccoons, squirrels, you name it!!!!! My original tomato plants were destroyed, but happily are renewing themselves and have blooms which I hope I can protect.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:35:56 +0000

The weather in NC has been miserable. Temps high in the 100s for weeks, but now the heat seems to have settled down & is staying closer to what is normal for us in Aug.: high 90′s. Funny, but that feels better now after roasting for so long! I garden in raised beds & have been so careful to keep them evenly watered. The tomatoes were slow at first, but have become outstanding. My cukes died very early. I would get some on the vines, but they failed to thrive. Not sure why, but I suspect they succumbed to some kind of fungal infection. I work VERY hard at gardening organically, even to the extent of pulling weeds rather than spraying or hand-picking the Japanese beetles. I’d love to try the new organic Jobe!

By: jadaj

jadaj — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:31:54 +0000

Despite the heat here in Atlanta I am having my best tomato season in years. I have had to baby my plants daily to keep them alive as well as producing. Still, I hope they will be even more productive next year. I have grown totally organic (starting with organic seeds) except for my fertilizer (felt I must use up what I already had here). Next season I shall be trying the Jobes Organics and hope to have an even better, tastier tomato crop. I’m also growing a few varieties of small melons, squash, and a surprise, volunteer cucumber vine. Good luck to all of you green and brown thumbers out there!

By: jacob

jacob — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 06:33:59 +0000

I have been trying to grow tomatoes and i get no fruit i hope this is a better fertilizer than i am using.oter veggies are slow.

By: jacob

jacob — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 06:19:20 +0000

my garden has not been going good.my tomatoe plants havent been producing any tomatoes and im about to quit but if i win this fertilizer i will hope that i will get my garden growing again.

By: Celeste

Celeste — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:51:45 +0000

I used professional growing medium and addi haveed Scots tomato andbloomfertolizer depending.I have been watering every day.I will try Jones.thanks for the info.everything is slow and has recently slowed even more.

By: Meredith Peters

Meredith Peters — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 04:22:55 +0000

The garden is going pretty well because we’ve kept it simple with less crowding/fewer plants as well as solved our mold problem of other years by making larhe hills for for everything. Half the tomato plants are in giant buckets we sliced the bottoms of that were only a dollar at Dollar Tree and are doing really well although nothing red yet!

By: Judy Lipcsak

Judy Lipcsak — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 03:48:53 +0000

A few years ago we moved into an urban neighborhood., so I have switched almost entirely to container gardening. I wasn’t aware that Jobe’s had an organic time-release formula. I am really looking forward to trying it.