Beginner Gardening: MITTLEIDER FERTILZER SCHEDULE, 0 by firstfruitforsure

firstfruitforsure wrote:
Dear Dave and all:
thanks for this forum; i'm new at this, have been using Mittleider Method for two months, but i find the fertilizing requirements totally confusing; i even wrote to the moderator of that forum privately and he gives me 'answers' that make no sense to me.

when i am fertilizing a 10 foot bed (by 18 inches wide), i was told to use 5 tablespoons of the fertilizer mix per week (the weekly feed); now, from the revised edition recently published, it has so many differences and frankly i find the 'order' and 'contradictions' very confusing as this is my first gardening experience..

i will send some pix when i figure that out, and i really need your help since i googled you and your site came up as an answer to Mittleider Gardening.....

TODAY, i find that there is a fertilizer SCHEDULE page in Appendix B, i believe. since it is WEEKLY feed, that is what i have been doing; i've been putting too much fertilizer in, but everything is lush, and flowering on cucumbers, but they are in a greenhouse, so not pollinated.....
so, for an example, TOMATOES, i have just doing what i was emailed to do; everything LOOKS real nice, HOWEVER, now it appears that i am supposed to be using many varied feedings per week from this schedule....?????? a list of crops with # of fertilizer applications DEPENDING on the specific crop. (i'm doing very small scale, 10 foot beds by 18 inches...

is there someone who could help me who is familiar with this Mittleider Method of fertilizing, like, suggested feedings for pole beans appears to be like 16 feedings per week. the charts and order of the Course Guides are not in any order, there are contradictions all over; i started with this methold as it seemed good, scientific and balanced....but i can't get straight answers; i'm a senior citizen and very frustrated with the whole thing. so far, no fruit, though it 'looks good', and the cucumbers and the tomatoes all need to be transplanted outside as looks like all male cucumber flowers; there will be' a shadecloth installed over the 6 foot pen this week, as the west GA sun is extremely hot!

technically challenged, and thought 'weekly' feed meant 'weekly'; now i find the 'fertilizer schedule' and wow, am i supposed to feed nearly daily for certain crops??? pre the Mittleider Method? desperation!
thanks so much for your help, i'm really frustrated, and it appears you have quite the forum going on.
thanks so much and have a great day!