My Tomato Plants Started Slow, but This Natural, DIY Fertilizer Will Boost My Yield – It Uses Just One Ingredient From the Yard

Red ripe tomatoes growing on the truss of a plant.

My tomato plants have been off to a slow start this year, so I've been looking for organic solutions to encourage faster growth. That's when I stumbled across a hack: making nettle tea fertilizer for tomatoes.

It's an old-school gardening trick to fertilize tomatoes with nettle-infused water, which is packed with nutrients, including nitrogen for vegetative growth. Giving your tomatoes nettle tea fertilizer from spring to early summer encourages strong leaves and stems, setting the plant up for healthy flowering and fruit production later on.