How to Prevent and Fix Common Tomato Problems with Simple Solutions

Tomatoes are possibly the most popular plant both to grow and eat. Almost all gardeners actually grow at least some tomatoes. Growing tomatoes is something most gardeners need to know and want to know. Tomatoes can face many dangers though. Any gardeners knows that even if a plant is almost ready to harvest any number of problems can arise that can destroy a healthy tomato crop. There are many simple solutions to many of these problems though. This article will teach you how to prevent and to stop some of the most common tomato problems from disease to bugs this article covers it all.

One method that even many back yard gardeners know to do is to use cans or even cups to protect young tomato plants. What you do is cut a hole in the bottom of a can or cup and put it at the base of the tomato. The can or cup creates a shield for the tomato from many different kinds of bugs. While using a Styrofoam or paper cup is going to be the easiest method using a metal can of some kind will work the best because it creates not only a physical barrier but the can will get hot keeping bugs that might attempt a climb away as well.

Many fertilizers or soil do not have enough calcium in them. Even a good compost often will not have a good amount of calcium unless you add in some eggshells. As you already know there are plenty of problems that can plague plants and tomatoes such as root end rot that are caused by low calcium. There area few simple solutions to this. The first possible solution is to get some powdered milk and mix it into the soil. The other solution is to grind up some chalk and to mix the ground up chalk into the soil.

Tomatoes need neutral soil levels. There are plenty of chemicals that you can buy that will help but why buy something you may already have and why use chemicals on your own garden after all doesn't the food from the grocery store have enough chemicals? You can mix in Epsom salt into the soil to create a neutral soil level that tomatoes love.

A secret to make tomatoes taste sweeter is to add sugar to a watering can when the tomato first shows signs of color. Besides adding sugar to literally make the tomato sweeter you will also want to stop watering as much so the tomato will start to hold in the water more making for a sweeter and juicer tomato.

Hydrogen peroxide can be a tomato growers best friend. If you have seen sunken black spots on your tomatoes that is called anthracnose and is a disease that can be treated by spraying an ounce of hydrogen peroxide mixed with two cups of water. Another use of hydrogen peroxide for tomato growth is to use straight or slightly diluted hydrogen peroxide in a mister to prevent late blight.

These are all great preventive tricks that will help your tomato garden do well. There are even more secrets that will actually improve the growth of your tomato plants but we will have to save those for another time.