10-10-10 for Vegetables

Add 1-2 oz per gallon of feedwater and apply every 1-2 weeks through the growing season, using a watering can, backpack or foliar sprayer, or a hose end sprayer set to the 1-2 oz setting. One ounce covers roughly 50 square feet. Drop to every 4-8 weeks in fall and winter for beds still carrying cool-season crops like kale and garlic.

At 1 tsp per quart, the 8 oz bottle makes about 48 watering cans of feed. For a typical shelf of 10–15 plants fed every 1–2 weeks in season, that's several months of feeding — and the 32 oz bottle four times that.

Yes, with one caveat worth knowing. Balanced feeding suits tomatoes through most of their life, and the even phosphate and potassium support flowering and fruit load. The caveat is blossom-end rot: those black-bottomed fruits come from calcium not reaching the fruit, which is driven by inconsistent watering — not fixed by any NPK. Keep soil moisture even and mulch; feeding handles the rest.

Yes — the balance is what makes one bottle work across types. Greens like lettuce and kale draw mainly on the nitrogen, root crops like carrots and onions lean on phosphate and potassium for sizing below ground, and neither gets pushed off course the way a strongly lopsided formula would. For greens harvested continuously, the every 1-2 weeks schedule keeps regrowth coming.

Yes — it's a plant nutrient supplying the same minerals crops draw from any garden soil. Follow the label dilution, avoid contact with skin and eyes when mixing, and wash harvested produce before eating as you normally would. If you foliar spray, applying earlier in the growing cycle rather than the day before picking makes rinsing simpler. Not for human or animal consumption from the bottle.

Poor fruit set is usually pollination or temperature, not feeding — tomatoes and peppers drop blossoms in heat above roughly 90°F, and squash needs bees moving pollen between male and female flowers. Balanced nutrition keeps plants ready to set when conditions allow, and avoiding excess nitrogen matters, but no fertilizer overrides a heat wave. Consistent watering helps flowers hold through stress.

Half the nitrogen is nitrate, absorbed directly by roots, so green-up begins with the first application — expect deeper color and faster leaf growth within 1-2 weeks, sooner with a foliar spray. The payoff that matters — flowering, fruit set, steady production — builds over 3-5 weeks of regular feeding, with mid-season crops responding fastest because they're drawing hardest.