Tomatoes are one of the most popular crops to grow in gardens as they are generally easy to grow, but they are also heavy feeders that need more nutrients than many other plants
Tomatoes are a favoured crop in gardens due to their ease of growth, but they are heavy feeders requiring more nutrients than other plants. Monty Don from Gardener's World suggests that tomatoes will yield larger and tastier fruit if sufficiently fed with potassium, an essential nutrient for fruit production.
Monty stated: "Potassium is what plants need to form good flowers and fruit, and fruiting flowers like tomatoes and gooseberries have quite a high potassium demand. You can boost that at this time of year and improve fruit production. One way of doing that is to go to a garden centre and buy liquid or granular fertiliser, but there's no need as you can also grow your own supply of potassium really easily through comfrey.
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