I love growing tomatoes. They come in a great number of shapes, sizes, flavors, and both plants and fruits. Some are critical, some are uncertain. However, they are all very prone to multiple diseases. Each season is different from the other years. I grow 108 varieties, cherry, plum, beef steak, red, pink, yellow, tomato fest, Johnny seeds, and tomato grower supply. You can find all these vendors here.
As usual, I started most of the seedlings a little too early, so they got a bit of a leg. For the first time I used Hortisketch as my guide and also staggered the start date of the seeds so that crops develop in longer seasons. We’re in the middle of the season and this seems to be working.
This year, the weather has started significantly this year, and more importantly, no rain. The plants remained dry. Use an IV hose and grow the plants under the red plastic. When the fruit appeared, it rained with vengeance and soon the illness fell on the day. The disease spread quickly. The garden was able to identify the disease, but it was too late when the disease struck. But I know what to do next year by keeping a note to my garden manager.
Based on past experience, I sprayed biomineral calcium to avoid end-end decay of the flowers, but the problem was not eliminated. It’s hard to tell if that helped or not. For example, Lady Sophie was a gorgeous woman. Well, some of them were very healthy and very productive, while the other women were completely dead. Strange.
Another product we use to avoid illness is the Acknowledge Bio-O-Phi O-O-O-Brad Beetle. It works well until it isn’t, but at the very least I believe it slows down the illness. The Cupro 5000 is good for fungal diseases.
We’re having the best season ever. I have never seen so many tomatoes in our plants. Very large varieties such as watermelon, Regina and Giant Belgium are productive, but the fruits are smaller than normal.
