Everyone knows how much work you need to make in order to grow tomatoes.Late blight is one of the most terrible diseases Solanaceae can negate all the effort.This is a dangerous infection produces a special kind of fungus - Phytophthora infestans, disputes which are distributed primarily through wind and rain water.
main signs of late blight are considered brown spots on the edges of leaves and fruits, the band of the same color on the stems, and white patches appearing on different parts of the Solanaceae, in particular, such as potatoes, eggplants and tomatoes.Late blight significantly reduces the yield of these crops, and to deal with them is very difficult.Infection usually occurs tomatoes after infection of potatoes which is in this case the primary source of the infection.Therefore, in no case should not plant tomatoes next to it.
Most gardeners know that it is much easier to prevent than to treat later this unpleasant disease as late blight of tomatoes.Prevention is primarily in the burning of autumn foliage and careful digging beds.In addition, it is necessary to carry out treatment with fungicides, Bordeaux mixture or copper sulfate (0.1% solution).The latter two drugs (optionally) apply a week before carrying seedlings to a permanent place.
Fungicides are used according to the instructions in the event that the first signs of the disease manifest plants such as tomatoes.Late blight affects them closer to the end of the summer, so it is advisable to use for the cultivation of early-ripening tomatoes.In this case, the crop can be harvested before the plants are infected.Another good preventative measure can be considered spraying tomato garlic tincture.For its preparation take 50 grams of burning vegetable per liter of water.Plants treated every fifteen days, starting from the time of occurrence of the first of the ovaries.
fight against late blight of tomatoes can be performed by trimming the infected stems and leaves.Strong plants are less susceptible to infection.It is therefore important to provide the right care to tomatoes.During the growing need to comply strictly with all the necessary technology - in time to weed and feed the plants, as well as conduct regular watering.In that case, if the summer was rainy, you need to moisten the soil under the tomatoes as possible less.The fact that most commonly affects Phytophthora plant on raw areas.
If the disease is still massively impressed tomatoes - late blight did not retreat, you should try to save at least some share of the harvest.For this to remove green fruit bushes, which are not under the skin brown spots, and lowers them into the heated to 60 degrees water for two minutes.Then tomatoes are removed and transferred to a warm enough place for ripening.
Thus, to late blight did not become a real problem in the area, it should be mandatory to take a number of measures - periodic processing plants, choose the right place to plant, implement them good care.
