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.
Today in the Garden
Hardy from USDA Zones 3-9. Drought Tolerant, Deer proof plant
Today in the garden
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.
