Minerals & Tomato plants?

Question

Which particular Minerals do Tomato plants take from the soil?

Which particular Minerals do Tomatos plants give back to the soil, if any?

Answer 1

Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium are the main nutrients.  If you don't eat the tomato's all the nutrients would go back to the soil.  I think you want to know If the tomato's get any elements like nitrogen from the air like a soybeen plant can.  The answer is no.  A tomato just uses the elements from the soil.

Answer 2

Tomatoes take Calcium, Phosphorous, Magnesium, Potassium, Sodium, Chlorine, Sulfur, Copper, Cobalt, Iron, Manganese, Zinc, Molybdenum, Boron, and several other trace elements.  After the plant dies and decomposes it gives them all back except for what was in the fruits you harvested.  That is the way all life is.  Actually the minerals in the harvested fruit will also eventually return to the soil in some manner and method.

Answer 3

Sixteen plant food nutrients are essential for proper crop development. Each is equally important to the plant, yet each is required in vastly different amounts. These differences have led to the grouping of these essential elements into three categories; primary (macro) nutrients, secondary nutrients, and (micro) nutrients.

Primary (macro) nutrients are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. They are the most frequently required by the plants in the largest amounts.

The secondary nutrients are calcium, magnesium, and sulfur. For most crops, these three are needed in lesser amounts that the primary nutrients.

The (micro) nutrients are boron, chlorine, cooper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, and zinc. These plant food elements are used in very small amounts, but they are just as important to plant development and profitable crop production as the major nutrients.

In addition to the 13 nutrients listed above, plants require carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, which are extracted from air and water to make up the bulk of plant weight.

After harvest of the fruit most of the minerals and carbon will be returned to the soil as organic matter.