Beginner Gardening: Feeding tomatoes & other veggies, 1 by catmad

catmad wrote:
tarheelgal, what kind of tomatoes are they? The foliage of some is different than others, so maybe the lighter ones are just that variation. I think 5 gallon is about as small as you can go with tomatoes, so that may be of concern in time. I have several cherry tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets, and they really seem to be struggling, and I have to water a _lot_. I am going to start using fish emulsion on them, so I'm also interested in the answers to your questions.
I also want to suggest that you consider trying "Strawbale Gardening" *G*. This is my first garden in SC, and it's doing very well. This is a great way to get out of lots of the work involved in gardening with my clay "soil". "no hoeing, no tilling, no weeding" (or something like that). There's a whole 15 threads about it in the Vegetable Forum.
Good Luck,
Margo