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Tomatoe trouble
We have a few tomatoe plants in the garden (various varieties) but they
don't fruit very well also the leaves keep dying I heard something on the radio the other day about something in the soil and putting diluted molasses on it but Ididn't catch it all can anybody help. Thanks Terry & Angela |
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Tomatoe trouble
"Terry & Angela" wrote in message ... We have a few tomatoe plants in the garden (various varieties) but they don't fruit very well also the leaves keep dying I heard something on the radio the other day about something in the soil and putting diluted molasses on it but Ididn't catch it all can anybody help. Thanks Terry & Angela Could be a Nematode problem, (little worm like creatures in the soil), to prevent this I dig Bayer Nemacure into the plot prior to planting a tomato crop. Nematodes are more common in sandy soils I think. Robby |
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Tomatoe trouble
dunno about the molasses but we can't grow tomatoes because of nematodes
in the soil. they're sort of cyclic, they stay there unless you treat them all the time. we gave up trying to grow anything in the nematode infected soil, we put some good soil in big buckets, grow the toms in those. the buckets don't look pretty but at least the stuff grows! Terry & Angela wrote: We have a few tomatoe plants in the garden (various varieties) but they don't fruit very well also the leaves keep dying I heard something on the radio the other day about something in the soil and putting diluted molasses on it but Ididn't catch it all can anybody help. Thanks Terry & Angela |
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Tomatoe trouble
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http://www2.dpi.qld.gov.au/horticulture/5406.html Laboratory and glasshouse experiments examined the inhibition effects of molasses on root-knot nematodes. Terry & Angela wrote: We have a few tomatoe plants in the garden (various varieties) but they don't fruit very well also the leaves keep dying I heard something on the radio the other day about something in the soil and putting diluted molasses on it but Ididn't catch it all can anybody help. Thanks Terry & Angela |
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