Monitoring Tomato Plant Growth

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You must keep a careful eye on your tomato plant for the most common garden pests. With just a little diligent attentiveness, you can help keep your tomatoes healthy, disease-free, and pest-free. Regularly monitor your tomato plants daily. Take a walk around the entire tomato garden area each day with meticulous observation looking for any unusual signs of damage or weakness. Look for drooping leaves, yellowed leaves, holes or insect bites, or any damage in the tomato itself. Those symptoms can indicate a number of different tomato problems, including tomato diseases such as tomato blight, blossom-end rot, or even tomato fungus. You'll also be able to spot tomato bugs and pests such as the common tomato hornworm or cutworm. Both share similar characteristics of a caterpillar.A helpful tip in keeping soil fresh and moist during tomato growth is a technique known as mulching. Organic mulch assortments include shredded leaves, straw, grass clippings, compost, newspaper, biodegradable weed mats, shredded hardwood, sawdust, and wood chips. As organic mulch decomposes, it adds organic material to your garden which results in higher levels or organic nutrients. Organic mulch is very inexpensive and sometimes free. Only use grass clippings only when the yard has not been chemically treated with pesticides of chemical fertilizers. Here are a few benefits to mulching your tomato garden: Mulching Benefits
A layer of mulch helps water penetrate the soil and keeps it moist. The outer layer dries faster than the soil below it which lessens the possibility of evaporation.
It regulates soil temperature.
Mulching prevents weed growth around your tomato plant.
It prevents disease and fruit rot by preventing any instance of fruit rot or molding The other way is to use newspapers and mulch.Some people don,t have the time to till and spread compost.What you do is to get some cardboard and cover the area. Bring some newspaper that are wet and cover a few layers. Then add some grass clipings,weed-free-hay does well too. Next year you can use this garden/bed to transplant tomatoes rather than direct-seeded crops.Now if you are in a city, my recommadation is to buy the organic topsoil and bring it to your garden.Use the bags to cover the soil. At the end of the season,you can pull off the plastic bags and use the garden folk or tiller to mix the soil for your next season

About the Author:
I am David Lubega, hoping this article will complement the one I have writen before about growing organic tomato. I invite you to read more articles at :http://www.organicfoodplaza.com/caring-for-your-tomato-proces/



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