Espoma Garden-tone

• Grow delicious cool and warm season vegetables like lettuce, kale, tomatoes, peppers & squash
• Use for herbs like basil, chives, sage, rosemary, parsley & oregano
• Long lasting, slow-release feeding with our exclusive Bio-tone Microbes
• Grow an abundant harvest of nutritious & flavorful vegetables
• 100% natural & organic ingredients with no fillers or sludges

For use on:

On all herbs and vegetables such as:

Hardy (cool season) crops:

Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage
Collards
English peas
Kale
Kohlrabi
Leeks
Mustard greens
Parsley
Radish
Spinach
Turnip

Semi-hardy crops for early spring or fall:

Beets
Carrot
Cauliflower
Celery
Chinese cabbage
Endive
Irish potatoes
Lettuce
Radicchio
Rutabaga
Salsify
Swiss chard

Summer crops (Plant after danger of frost):

Beans
Corn
Cucumber
Eggplant
Melons
Okra
Peppers
Pumpkins
Summer squash
Sweet potatoes
Tomatoes

When to use:

• Mix into the garden soil prior to planting.
• Seedlings / Transplants: 7 œ 10 days after planting.
• Established plants: Monthly, May through Aug.
• Herbs will only require feeding at time of planting or after a large harvest.

How much to use:

• Soil Preparation for Vegetable Garden
  • Apply 3.5 lbs. per 50 square feet and work into the top 4 to 5 inches of soil. When possible, mix with organic matter such as compost, humus, or peat moss.
• Feeding Vegetables and Tomatoes
  • Single plants: Apply up to 1/3 cup per plant.
  • Rows: Apply 1-1/3 cup each side per 5 ft. of row or 10 lbs. each side per 100 ft. of row.
• Potted Plants
  • New Plants: When preparing soil for new plants, thoroughly mix  2 cups of Garden-tone into each cubic foot of Potting Soil.
  • Established Plants:  Sprinkle 1.5 tsp. of Garden-tone per 4³ of pot diameter onto the soil along the outer edge of the pot.  Water thoroughly.
• Herbs 
  • In the garden œ use 1 tbsp. per plant
  • In containers œ Use half the rate for potted plants above.

How to apply:

• Individual plants  œ Sprinkle around the drip line of the plant.
• Row crops œ sprinkle evenly on each side of row.
• Do not allow plant food to contact the main stem or foliage of the plant.