Hi everyone, you are all welcome to today's guild on how to care for your tomato plant.Are you a gardener? A commercial tomato farmer? Or maybe you are simply interested in having a broad knowledge of tomatoes? if yes,...
Hi everyone, you are all welcome to today's guild on how to care for your tomato plant.
Are you a gardener? A commercial tomato farmer? Or maybe you are simply interested in having a broad knowledge of tomatoes? if yes, then stick around and read to the end because this article is for you.Two weeks ago I publish an article on how to grow tomatoes at home. You can read it here.
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All that been said, let's quickly delve into the business of the day.
Tomato being a very important and a highly consumed vegetable worldwide, comes with numerous challenges which includes climatic, pest, diseases, soil types and so on.
How you can better care for your tomato plants to minimize the effect of the above named challenges are what I will be talking about today.
How to care for your tomato plants in the nursery
The nursery is the place where your tomato plants are raised from seeds.
As a beginner you may not have the much needed knowledge to raise your tomato plants from seeds, but sometimes you (a beginner) might still be able to raise your plants from seeds by doing a few research.
My article on how to grow tomatoes at home also have a sneak pick guide on raising tomatoes in the nursery.
Now let's talk about how you can actually care for your tomatoes in the nursery
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How to care for your tomato plants during transplanting
immediately after nursery practices, the next is transplanting.
Transplanting is the process of taking your plants from the nursery to the field. It is done when the tomato plants have grown up to a certain stage (ideally when they have a maximum of 3 - 4 leaves or about 4 weeks after planting)
Below lyes how you can care for your plants during the process of transplanting.
How to care for your tomato plants while in the field
The field in this case is the last place where your tomatoes are raised to maturity.
In this stage your plants are more susceptible to diseases outbreak as compare to when they are in the nursery because you can easily care effectively for them in the nursery than on the field.
You may also want to read bacterial wilt of tomato plants.
Below are some practices that you may need to carry out on the field in other to ensure that they are properly taken care of.
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