If possible, plant tomatoes in an area where tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and potatoes have not grown for at least two years to help avoid soil-borne disease problems. Preparations for any crop ...

Potting soil prices creep up into dizzying heights when you have several containers to fill each year. But crop rotation can ...

Be sure to water directly around the soil only so you don't inadvertently contribute to fungal disease development along the leaves, stems, or fruit. As a rule of thumb, tomato plants require ...

bacterial spot is similar in appearance to many other tomatoes diseases Tomato leaves have small (less than 1/8 inch), brown, circular spots surrounded by a yellow halo. The center of the leaf spots ...

In my household, the tomato seedlings have been pricked out into six packs (some for friends). One interesting thing was that ...

Winter is here and it is a good time of year to reflect on your past year of gardening and plan for the next year.

A large amount of crop loss occurs each year during both pre and post-harvest stages due to pathogen infestation that involves a wide variety of pathogens ranging from viroids and viruses to ...

Dec. 3, 2024 — Nitrogen oxide emissions from soil in California's Salton Sea air basin are 10 times larger than state estimates, finds a new study of rural Imperial and Coachella ...

Prof Kamboj describes grafting as a unique horticultural technique that combats nematodes and soil-borne diseases while enhancing plant resistance to various environmental conditions ...

The natural process of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis (AMS), in which plants exchange carbon for essential nutrients with fungi ... is crucial not only for tomatoes but also for optimizing ...