Leaf diseases like Leaf Spot, Early Blight and Late Blight can’t be cured but they can be managed and even prevented. The key to maintaining healthy tomatoes…
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Question by happydawg: When do I stop fertilizing my tomato plants with miracle grow?
Every Friday, I go outside and fill my 1 1/2 gallon container with 1 scoop of miracle grow for tomato’s and 1 1/2 gallon of water and sprinkle it on my 4 tomato plants. They are so big, they vining on to each other. I think its probably ok to stop fertilizing now. Whats your opinoin. Will this make huge tomato/s?
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Answer by Unboundlight
Yes I would stop fertiling them every week. Keep them watered, but not too wet. The size of the fruit will mainly depend on the type you planted. Though they have received plenty of fertilizer, this will have given them more of an advantage to reach their poteial. Would love to see your plants! Sounds like they are gorgeous.
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I could be a combination of choking to death in too small of a container and poor drainage. I got a larger container and drilled a bunch of holes in it, including four on the sides. Will check for root rot when it’s on it’s way into new container. It’ll also get its liquid fertilization. Does that sound OK? We also have pigeons. I wonder if they like tomatoes? I might spray the fruit with hot pepper spray. Couldn’t hurt, could it? Thanks, Gary.
Hmm. If it is draining well watering isn’t the issue. A dose of liquid fertilizer could help. It is probably a determinate and they tend to start to die out. But something sounds funny. No insects in the soil or on the leaves?
One of my tomato plant’s leaves have been yellowing slowly up the vine. Now the little green tomatoes are starting to fall off. It’s a tiny Tom tomato plant.
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Disease prevention and pest avoidance can also be accomplished by selecting and growing disease and pest resistant varieties. Personal experience from previous years is also an effective way to gauge how a particular cultivar, growing method or environmental condition will affect your growing outcome.
Good advice, Gary. When the disease (or pest, for example, a plant part infested with aphids) isn’t too extensive, I simply remove the damaged plant part. It’s the surest, most effective means of pest and disease management.
1 tablespoon per gallon is the safest bet. 2 tablespoons can burn plants if you spray under the wrong conditions. Spray out of direct full sun.
Spraying frequency REALLY Varies. Depends on location and weather. Every 10-14 days if you dont really have bad diseases in your area. 1x weekly if you are in area with tomato diseases.
If you get an infection 1 or 2x a week. If it rains hards after a spraying you have to reapply.
Sorry I cant be specific.
Black spots can be leaf spot. If the black spots have yellow rings around it it is usually leaf spots. The standard procedure is to spray the plant with an anti-fungal. I make mine 1 gallon of water and 1 tablespoon of baking soda. Spray out of direct sun. Morning or cloudy day. Carefully remove the infected branches too and throw them in garbage.
If you want to send a picture to one of my google+ garden communities, someone will be able to identify what it might be. The link is on my blog.
My tomatoes have black spots on the bottom ( mine are still growing )
What do i do?
What is the formular, for the baking soda…and how often..Ty
Sulfur is acidic and baking soda is not acidic. When you mix them they react and neutralize each other. You want to use one or the other to raise or lower the PH on the leaf to make it unhospitable to the spores. Mixing them makes a neutral spray.
I don’t know how ES would react. If you going through the trouble of spraying the leaves to manage disease… I would try and keep it pure.
You said not to mix the sulfur and baking soda, why? I saw another video and u said if using the Epsom salt mixture u could mix it in a water can and apply to soil. If u did this, would it then be OK to use the baking soda mix as a spray on the same occasion? Thanks for your videos.
The disease is pretty established in my area. Composting the stuff for a year is probably best as to let the disease compost away. Or if the disease is really uncommon toss your soil into a flower bed.
I throw out the mulch layer. I do a bit of different things depending what grows in the containers. Tomates typically get dump into a garden bed. And I just start over. Sometimes I take containers & dump them onto a big tarpy and break and mix them all together. I add new compost to the big mix.
Hi Gary, another great video. I see that you have wood chips in your container. At the end of the season, do you remove the mulch, pull out the plant, put in new soil then put the mulch back or do you mix the mulch into the old soil? Could you do a future video about how you clean up your container & prep it for the next season? I’m trying to figure out how to cover my containers – I used mulch my first year but couldn’t figure out how to clean it up & it got quite messy. -Thanks
Parsley is pretty hardy. I would spray the wettable sulfur first. I would try a baking soda spray. Remove the damage leaves. Parsley has a strong root and it will send back leaves. The baking soda could help with spread the spots if the spots are related to a fungus.
Do you think this would be fine for other plants as well? It rained a little lately and I don’t know if that’s the reason, but the parsley I recently planted has a few yellow leaves (that I’ve been pulling off) and orange spots on a lot of the green ones.
Thanks a lot. I actually use aspirin as a treatment. If you got my youtube channel and check out the videos, I have a video on using aspirin on tomatoes to beef up defenses.
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Great channel and blog. I live in Mexico and I am just a newb with tomatos, want to plant hanging tomato plants (too many insects and other critters eat the ripe tomatos otherwise). I haven’t come around to it yet, though. I read somewhere that aspirin dissolved in water helps the tomato plants strengthen defences (the salicylic acid is supposed to be helpful). Is it true?
Corrected it to say my youtube channel. Thanks!
On my youtube channel. If I said blog I meant youtube channel.
great information and the tomatoes look delish
Thanks. Where is your *other* blogs that show you how to make the sprays?
Thanks again.
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I would stop fertilizing when they sit green tomatoes.
Enjoy your tomatoes
It really depends on the tomatoes, such as if you planted big boys? beef steak? etc. etc. And yes i would stop fertilizing the tomatoes because you can over fertilize then your plants will be doomed. And if they are vining to each other you should snip them back a lil. Tomatoe plants will not grow to there full potential if they are to close. Tomatoe plants absolutely hate other tomatoe plants. I always keep my plants at least 1-1 1/2 feet apart. But i hope your plants do well.