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Old April 19, 2007   #1
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I have been trying to find Tomato Tone...but only found Plant Tone.

Any have any experience using Espoma products?
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Old April 19, 2007   #2
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Where have you been looking?

Espoma Tomato Tone (4-7-10) seems to be a very well-balanced, mostly organic food for tomatoes. It has many micronutrients. I used it as part of Earls "hole planting method" this year. The plants seem really healthy and are setting a good amount of fruit.
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Old April 19, 2007   #3
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Feldon:

Looked at Lowes, HD, Sears Hardware and a couple of local nurserys. I found plant tone at an Agway store.

I have a couple of more places to call/stop by...
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Old April 19, 2007   #4
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Called four more places that were on the Espoma website...all had Garden Tone...but no Tomato Tone.

I think this is a conspiracy...
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Old April 19, 2007   #5
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I just looked. The closest place to me that sells ANY Espoma products is 300 miles away!
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Old April 19, 2007   #6
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Mark-I use espoma products on my tomatoes, eggplant, cukes, peppers, lawn, flowers, shrubs, trees, etc. And I have no connection, family or business, with espoma. The products are hard to find East of the Mississippi, but I do it.

Plant tone is 5-3-3 with micros. You need to get either Tomato tone- 4-7-10 or Garden Tone-4-6-6. Here is a link to a dealer-finder:

http://www.espoma.com/finddealer.aspx

You can get tomato tone from Yardiac.com-they will ship. But you should be able to find some in your area. You can also call Espoma and ask them-they are very nice.
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Old April 19, 2007   #7
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we deal with Espoma alot, they are nice. their website shows locations of dealers using your zip code. It is a really good product. If you can't get that, have you considered Algoflash for tomatoes? It's a 4-6-8 liquid concentrate. Maybe, see if you can get that locally.
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Jung-I have used algoflash, and its good for containers, but I dont think it has the micronutrients that I like for my containers. Do you know if it does?
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Here's the info I have on Algoflash tomato.

nitrogen 4%
nitrate nitrogen 1.5%
ammoniacal nitrogen .7%
urea nitrogen 1.8% available
Phosphorus 6%
potash 8%
sulfur (S) .9%
water soluble magnesium .6%
.03% Iron (Fe) compounded with Chelate DTPA; 0.0125% Zinc (Zn); 0.025% manganese (Mn); 0.003% Copper (Cu); 0.016% Boron (B); 0.001% molybdenum (Mo). Derived from: ammonium nitrate, potassium hydroxide, magnesium sulfate, Iron DTPA, zinc sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, borate acid, molybdaten sodium.

I hope this is what you were asking me. I do have the same type of info for tomato tone if you would like to compare them.

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Thanks for all of the input...I think I will just go with Garden Tone...it's pretty close to the tomato tone. I also need a fertilizer for my peppers, beet, carrots, cukes and zukes...so Garden Tone should work well for all. My local nursery carries the 25 pound bag...so I may consider getting this and sharing with my neighbor.
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I've been watching our local Lowes for this for a couple years now. The link above shows that the closest dealer to me is 1,783.9 miles away! (I meant to look when I was in Kentucky recently, but I forgot.)
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Jung-thanks for the info-I have the tomato tone info so will compare it. For foliar, now I use Monty's Joy Juice, 2-15-15.
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If it helps any, they are selling it on E-bay for 5.99 a bag.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Tomato-Tone-Fert...QQcmdZViewItem

Sometimes I turn to e-bay when I can't find it anywhere else.
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I generally go to two locally owned garden centers because they're closer to my house than Lowe's or Home Depot. One carried Tomato Tone only in huge, heavy bags. I found the five pounder at the other garden center and that suited me better. If you happen to live in Hampton Roads and are looking for Tomato Tone, I found that giant bag at Atlantic and the smaller bags at McDonald's. Sorry I can't be as helpful to folks living elsewhere.
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Originally Posted by sirtanon View Post
I just looked. The closest place to me that sells ANY Espoma products is 300 miles away!
The closest dealer to my area is 1,736 miles!!! Could you pick me up some since you are closer? hehe
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