Tomato diseases and
tomato plant disease
Tomato diseases come in such variety, it's enough to make you throw up your hands in disgust. However, home grown tomatoes are so vastly much better tasting than store bought tomatoes, it is the No. 1 vegetable grown in the back yard garden!
What should we look for and guard against to help minimize tomato plant disease? What tomato diseases are out there to attack our beloved vegetable fruit? These and other questions deserve answers that extend to volumes. We hope to start you off with some very simple habits and preventive methods that will let you enjoy your green thumbs' efforts.
1. There are two kinds of parasitic tomato diseases most frequently encountered in every garden: fungal and viral. From 2-4 weeks after you transplant your seedlings to the garden, you should begin a program of precautionary spraying.
a. First you use something for fungal tomato plant disease like Ortho Multipurpose Fungicide. It is available in small, backyard garden quantities from your local garden supply center.
b. Ten days later, use a viral tomato plant disease spray like Liquid Copper Fungicide.
c. Alternating between these two should keep the most common parasitic tomato diseases in check. Listed among these tomato diseases are: early and late blights, Septoria leaf spot and bacterial speck and spot.
2. Those tomato plant diseases which can't be controlled by spraying may be stemmed by several other healthy practices. These tomato diseases are: fusarium and verticillium wilts, bacterial canker, and soil rot.
a. Choose among tomato varieties known to be tomato disease resistant.
b. Rotate the area in which you plant tomatoes each year to avoid a soil buildup of tomato plant disease from one year's crop to the next.
c. For soil rot, the most important prevention against tomato diseases is keeping the fruit from laying on the soil, for which a trellis or stake is a supreme aide.
Finally, good watering practices and appropriate fertilization patterns will yield a healthy, abundant crop free of tomato plant disease.
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