Topic: Tomorite tomato feed...is it organic?

[elemental]

Hi

I would like to know if it's safe to use as an organic product? Especially since I eat the tomatoes raw.

Heres the link to their website
http://www.lovethegarden.com/products/plantfeed/tomorite.html

Thank you!

Sorry couldn't get it to be a hyperlink!

[Pescador]

Their website doesn't say its Organic, so I would think not.
Also when I searched the site for Organic fertilizer, I didn't see it.

Why are you concerned about it being Organic if you eat the tomatoes raw?

[bionear2]

Not being particularly "organic"I dont really worry about it - but essentially all such products are chemical fertilisers, and therefore in my view cannot be classed as anything but "inorganic"

[Barnowl]

Has always puzzled me. The minerals our plants need to be health and extract from the soil through their roots are inorganic chemicals by definition, but I can't see that adding those minerals to the soil results in non-organic gardening unless what you add has complex man-made versions of those minerals that do not occur naturally. Not quite sure how to view oxides - which are what's in Tomorite - but it doesn't give me sleepless nights  :)

[reddyreddy]

I don't think it is organic but you can buy organic tomato fertiliser -

http://www.organiccatalog.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=445

[raisedbedted]

I only use organic compounds and for Tomatoes use seaweed liquid feed rather than Tomatorite, its in a brown bottle called Seasol or something.  Sold in most Garden Centres.

[Barnowl]

I buy Maxicrop in bulk

[davyw1]

I don,t get it.
Why are you worried about eating a tomato raw that has not been grown with organic fertilizer.

[Barnowl]

Because the tomato might have picked up other less pleasant chemicals along with the good stuff?

Check out the neo-nicotinoids that have been in use. If fertiliser were to be made from something contaminated by them I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end.

[davyw1]

Because the tomato might have picked up other less pleasant chemicals along with the good stuff?

Check out the neo-nicotinoids that have been in use. If fertiliser were to be made from something contaminated by them I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end.

That's what i get Barnowl i understand that  what i don,t get, is worrying about eating a tomato that has been fed on some product  that has been tried and tested and not taken off the market (yet ) by the EU. Yet there is no concern for what the tomato is grown in, we put manure in in the soil or mixed with the grow bag into tubs we feed with nettle and comfry juice not a care as to what has p%$£"d on it.

I just don,t get it

[Unwashed]

Gardening Organic is really shorthand for a whole bunch of ethical choices.  One choice is that the produce will be healthier for us, but another is that its production will cause as little hurt to anyone and anything else.  There might be little difference chemically between watering tomatoes with comfrey tea and wood-ash as against Tomorite, but if Tomorite isn't Organic then you don't know what ethical choices the manufacture has made that you wouldn't be happy with. 

Central Government has its own standards for testing what 'safe' means, and it doesn't have a terribly good record of choosing public health and ethics over commercial pressure.  DDT, Iraq, BSE, thalidomide - all 'safe'.  Organic is just a different test that's rooted in a different philosophy.

[tonybloke]

well said!!