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Tomato Plant Disease
Most tomato plants are resistant to most tomato plant diseases and it is probably therefore the tomato has become one of the most popular vegetable in the entire world.
Tomato plant disease – Bacterial wilt
Borne in the soil, this disease is probably one of the most serious of all tomato plant diseases and every gardener’s worst nightmare. Because the bacterium comes from the ground and slowly starve the plant, this tomato plant disease can effectively affect and kill all of your tomatoes before you will even notice it. The plants will in other words just fall over and wilt. Also affecting eggplants, peppers and potatoes, you can only pray that the tomato plant disease hasn’t spread. |
If you suspect that something has happened to your tomato plants, just peel off some off the bark right above the ground level. If the stalk leaks liquid and the centre turn brown or appears hollow, it is possible that your garden has been stricken by this horrible tomato plant disease. The only cure it to pull the whole plant straight out of the ground and hope that the tomato plant disease known as bacterial wilt hasn’t spread.
Tomato plant disease – Tomato spotted wilt virus
Although it is easy to spot, it is by far too late once the symptoms have arrived. There is no known cure for this tomato plant disease. The tomato plant will initially stop to grow and later the older leaves will get a colour of pale green. Left to its own, younger leaves and the stalk will get rings and markings in a purplish colour and the fruits will suffer miscolourization and blotches. The tomato plants will then most probably wilt and die and all you can do is pull the plant from the ground and replant, luckily this tomato plant disease doesn’t spread between plants. Caused and spread by Thrips and Aphids, preventive sprayings with insecticide is the only way to be safe from this very disturbing tomato plant disease.
Tomato plant disease – Early blight
While other tomato plant diseases might be serious, this one isn’t that much of a problem if well prepared for. As the name might reveal this disease happens very early in the tomato plants growth period, it is actually the first one growing plants might be infected by. Being a fungus, this tomato plant disease strikes the leaves of the tomato plant, making them wither and slowing down the growth rate of the entire plant. To stay clear of this you simply have to see to it that water doesn’t splash over the leaves and invites fungus growth. Water splashing from the ground is also a common source. When watering, water in a circle around the plant rather than directly on it. This tomato plant disease spread by means of spores and shouldn’t be allowed to reach other plants. Simply remove infected leaves and spray with a recommended fungicide. That is all you need to do to get rid of this rather trivial tomato plant disease.
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