Organic Gardens – Plant Health Essentials

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Removing pests from your organic garden may not eliminate all your problems because your plants are susceptible to a wide-range of common plant diseases. This can cause some headaches but there are many easy and effective solutions to plant diseases. Here we shall cover the main symptoms and some of the controls available to the organic gardener.

Now, the thing about plant diseases is that some of the symptoms look a lot like the signs of a pest control problem. For example, you might notice:

• Yellow or brown leaves.

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How to Keep Your Garden Disease Free

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Learn to control factors that cause common plant diseases.

No matter where your garden is located, you will have to deal with plant diseases. Even if you have had good luck in the past, there will come a day when disease strikes your plants.

Plant diseases can be caused by many factors including plants that have disease when purchased, bugs or weather. Weather conditions many change in your area, becoming hotter, colder, or wetter than is normal for your area. All of these factors can make your plants more susceptible to disease. You cannot control Mother Nature, but you can pick plants that are more disease resistant for your area.

Have you ever heard the old saying, “Talk to your plants and they will be happier and healthier?” Maybe that is because when you are talking to them, you are really looking closer at the plant and paying attention to what is going on. By talking to your plant, you notice if the leaves are getting droopy, turning yellow, have bugs, or are showing signs of disease such as black matter, water spots, or powdery mildew.

Here are a few tips to help you keep your garden disease free:

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Companion Planting for Tomatoes

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Are you growing tomatoes in your vegetable garden this year? And with all that effort, you’re definitely going to want to grow bright, juicy, red fruit that tastes heavenly. Growing tomatoes together with other, very specific vegetables, herbs or flowers can be of great benefit to the health of the plants you are putting all your time and effort into.

Companion planting is a gardening method that involves pairing vegetable plants together so they thrive better when they are grown together. It has been shown that strawberries and green beans grow better together than they do when they are grown separately. Another known pairing is Bibb lettuce with spinach. These plants are known to have complementary physical needs, thus making them great companions.

Every beginner gardener needs to know that when growing tomatoes, the plants need to be pollinated to produce fruit. Attracting pollinating insects is the best way to pollinate your fruit. If there are no insects around, an alternative is to gently shake the plants by hand so that the pollen from the males reaches the female receptors. Companion planting with flowers is a terrific method for attracting pollinator insects such as bees. Try planting petunias or heliotrope beside your growing tomatoes. Pollination is just one of the benefits of companion planting.

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11 Tomato Growing Tips to Help the Beginning Enthusiast to Grow Tomatoes From Seeds the Right Way!

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How to sow tomato seeds is challenging but also very rewarding. Hopefully the following tomato growing tips will help you to get started the right way. You may obtain your seeds from reputable stores. You may also opt to use heirloom tomato seeds, they are considered as a variety that has been passed down through generations because of its valued characteristics. Whatever variety you choose homegrown tomatoes usually produces succulent fruit crops.

Basically planting tomatoes seeds is done indoors for about 6 to 8 weeks prior to spring frost in your area. Transplanting tomato seedlings outdoors takes another 2 weeks after that.

Here are some tips on growing tomato seeds:

1. The initial step is to grow tomato seeds indoors. Using a flat tray or pot, plant your tomato seeds about 1/4 inches deep using fertile soil mix. Soil mix is usually a combination of peat moss, perlite and sphagnum.

2. Water it consistently keeping soil moist. Dry soil makes the tomato seeds die. You may cover the tray with plastic to conceal moist. Germinate tomato seeds in soil with 75 – 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Once you see leaves starting to sprout remove the plastic immediately.

3. Ensure that your tomato seedlings are exposed to sunlight at least 6 – 8 hours every day. If not possible you may use a fluorescent lamp fixture at least a couple of inches away from your growing tomato seedlings. Sufficient supply of sunlight makes your plant grow sturdy. Lack of it will cause them to grow leggy. Another way to help your plant grow sturdy is to lightly brush the plants with your hands twice a day.

4. When leaves begun to grow before it becomes root bound transfer them to a bigger pot to allow root growth and development.

5. When you see potential growth of about 6 leaves you may already transplant your tomato plant outdoors or in a bigger container where you plan to grow tomato plants. Remember to hold only the cotyledon leaves when transplanting and not the stems. The stems are still at their fragile stage.

6. But before transplanting, harden off your tomato plant meaning gradually expose your growing tomato plant to outside temperatures. Harden off your plants by bringing it outside during the day and then bring it back indoors during the night with longer exposure to outdoor temperatures each day until ready for outdoor gardening.

7. Planting tomato plants outside must be done 12-24 inches apart for the determinate variety and 30-36 inches apart for the indeterminate varieties.

8. Plant your growing tomatoes deeply to allow root expansion and growth. This will aid in building strong foundation for your growing tomato plant. Make sure that when adding soil to your plant it is evenly spread around the stem. Press the compost soil lightly to ensure contact of roots and soil. Sprinkle with water immediately.

9. Consistently water and ensure sunlight exposure to your tomato plants. Lack of sunlight will result to bent stems and is prone to blossom end rot and bacterial contamination.

10. Prune excess leaves to eliminate pests and other bacteria. Cutting some of the leaves will allow sunlight penetration to your tomato plant up to its soil. However do not excessively cut off leaves for they are the source of photosynthesis which is the source of the sweet flavor of your tomatoes.

11. Staking is also helpful to avoid blossom end rot to your tomatoes.

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Step By Step Growing Tomatoes

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Tomatoes are a useful fruit that many people love to plant and grow at their own home. Growing a garden can be a fulfilling use of your time and it is also very beneficial in the long run. However, there are many of us who just do not know how to go about planting tomatoes. Here is a step by step guide to growing tomatoes from seeds.

First you need to buy your seeds approximately eight weeks before you plan on putting them in your garden. This will be about eight weeks before you expect the last frost to be. You will want to get your seeds started in your home, get them ready for the outdoors, then plant them after what you believe is the last frost.

Of course, when you are buying seed, you will need to decide what kind of tomatoes you like. There are lots of different varieties of tomatoes, and the stores in your area will have the tomatoes that grow best in that area. Do not be afraid to find the ones that look good to you. Maybe grow a variety, and then decide which you like the best.

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Tomato Plant Diseases

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There are sooo many diseases that can attack your tomato plants that it’s mind boggling. Here are a few of the most common tomato plant problems:

– Early Blight – caused by a soil born fungus and the culprit is excessive water and affects the foliage and the fruit.

– Blossom Rot – is caused by a low concentration of calcium in the fruit

– Late Blight – also caused by a fungus which manifests in moist soils and affects the foliage and the fruit.

There are ways to help combat these diseases and the fall is absolutely the BEST time to do it. If you are a serious gardener and want to produce your best crop ever, then you need to start conditioning your soil now. The following are some great organic ways to get that soil ready:

1. Pull out all the dead plants and if diseased burn or bag up and throw away.

2. Till up the soil to get it ready for a thick layer of your home made compost.

3. Mix compost and a fertilizer low in nitrogen but high in superphosphate, such as 4-12-4 or 5-20-5, (for calcium) in a big 5 gallon bucket, add water to make a tea like mixture and spread mixture generously over the entire garden.

4. Cover entire garden area with a thick layer of your home made mulch. (Made of grass clippings, wood chips, coffee grounds, dead leaves etc.)

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Learn How to Save Tomato Seeds

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You have a tomato plant that has nice, large, juicy tomatoes and you want to know how to save tomato seeds for next years garden. Saving tomato seeds is not an overly complicated process if you don’t mind a little mess.

The best seed comes from the best tomatoes, so set aside your very best tomato, or couple of tomatoes for your seed.

Tomato seeds take a bit more effort than most plants in that you can’t just collect them as they dry on the plant.

Tomato seeds are enclosed in a gel like sack that prevents them from germinating in the tomato. They are released when the tomatoes fall off the plant and ferment.

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How I Grow Tomatoes In My House

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A lot of people love the idea to grow tomatoes in their garden or backyard. But, there are others who are not capable of doing it because of two factors which are the weather and space. In order to address this problem, they should have the knowledge about growing tomatoes indoors. Growing tomatoes indoors provide you with the advantage of growing and harvesting tomatoes all throughout the year. It does not care no matter how good or bad your geographical location or weather is. It also does not really require a very wide amount of space. Now, the question is, “How does growing tomatoes indoors being done?”.

When growing tomatoes indoors, there are several essential things that you must bear in mind: light, heat, humidity, soil balance, and tomato variety. Before growing tomatoes indoors, you should first be able to identify the right tomato variety to be grown. Since, you are onto growing tomatoes indoors, choose tomato varieties which do not grow that big. In order to keep your tomatoes growing, you also have to consider them receiving enough amount of light. But, how would you be able to do that if you are growing tomatoes indoors where sunlight is impossible to penetrate? For that matter, the solution would be to have “grow lights”.

Grow lights are just lamps or bulbs that are used as a replacement for sunlight. Today, there are lots of “grow lights” that are energy efficient. This is because these grow lights should be turn on for 12 to 15 hours daily, and having energy efficient grow lights can save you up some cash. Humidity and heat also play very important roles when growing tomatoes indoors. Without humidity and heat, it would be impossible to grow your tomato seeds. The heat is for the germination process of the seeds and humidity is for providing moisture to your tomato plants. The balanced amount of nutrients in your garden soil is also very necessary in order to provide your tomato plants with the right amount of nutrients that they need to stay healthy.

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Is the Tomato a Fruit or a Vegetable?

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Tomato – A fruit or vegetable?

In the United States of America, in 1883, was tried a high pressure legal case whose center of conflict was ‘A Tomato’. Who would have thought that the subject matter of the conflict would be as trivial as ‘Is the tomato a fruit or vegetable’? But yes, it was so. Scientifically, tomatoes fall into the fruit category and while cooking, tomatoes are treated as vegetables. The court verdict was unexpectedly biased which was that tomato was a vegetable owing to its presence in the main course and not in the dessert.

Tomatoes are very popular around the world for their nutritious content and antioxidant properties. The tomato bears a lot of resemblance to eggplants and bell peppers that have small seeds embedded inside the flesh. Though it has a setup as that of vegetables, it tastes more like citric fruits like orange and lime. Hence, it is this blend of fruit and vegetable properties that give the tomato its uniqueness. Over a period of ages, this fruit has evolved more as a vegetable and has been adopted by various cultures in their own method of sacred food preparation.

Tomato Production

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Common Diseases

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Plants are living organisms, and like any living organism, they are susceptible to disease. From fungal diseases to bacterial infections, there are many different diseases that plants can fall victim to. Even the most tightly run hydroponics garden can fall prey to root rot and powdery mildew. However, indoor gardens grown in a tent are less susceptible than gardens using soil. As long as the water is clean and air is circulated and controlled for humidity, the chances are much lower than soil-based gardens.

The common diseases found in indoor gardens can be narrowed down into five categories: fungus, bacteria, viruses, water molds, and nematodes.

The most important thing the gardener can do is to make sure that preventative measures are being taken. Make sure that plants have access to enough clean water and (circulating) air, with the right amount of humidity. You want your plants to be healthy enough to fight diseases on its own before you have to take additional measures to protect it. Prevention is key, but the next important step is keeping a close eye on your plants for any signs of wilting and drying, even though you are providing adequate amounts of water and nutrients. These may be signs that the plant is starting to fall prey to disease.

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