How to Prune Tomato plants via Deco Bliss on YouTube Video by Videojug: Capel Manor College, UK
Category Archives: Gardening Tips
Gardening Tips: Treating Powdery Mildew
Using Hydrogen Peroxide to treat vegetable plants for powdery mildew.
YouTube video by Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden)
Gardening Tips: Tomato Plants SAR
How to use aspirin on tomato plants to prevent diseases:
“The concept is well researched and documented. The aspirin mimics a hormone in the tomato plant used to trigger tomato stress defenses. This is call the Systemic Acquire Resistance (SAR) response. Your beefsteak is fooled into beefing up its natural defenses before fungal leaf diseases arrive. This makes it harder for future diseases to establish on their leaves.”
Gardening Tip
Feed your potted plants monthly with liquid fertilizer, because increased summer watering quickly washes nutrients out of the soil.
Gardening Tip
To help tomatoes pollinate: Using you finger, flick each bloom during the driest part of the day. Do this two or three times per week. You can also gently shake a larger plants to spread its pollen.
Rose Care
Controlling Diseases and Aphids on Your Roses booklet, by the OSU Extension Services, discusses the most common problems with roses: black spot, rust, powdery mildew, and aphids and the conditions that favor infection. It offers preventative measures and suggestions on how to control rose diseases and pests.
Read it here… Controlling Diseases and Aphids on Your Roses.
