Tasty and easy to grow, tomatoes are the most popular garden vegetable. However, tomato plant diseases can harm your tomato crop.
Don't let those potential problems scare you away. Growing healthy, pest- and disease-free tomato plants is relatively simple. Keep your plants healthy by rotating crops, planting disease-resistant varieties, spacing plants properly, mulching, and watering at least 1 inch per week.
Start your tomatoes off right.
As tomato plants grow, keep an eye out for tomato plant diseases that may come in the form of fungi, bacteria, or viruses.
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In the fall, if you have had tomato plant disease problems of any kind, remove the entire plant.
Rotate tomatoes so they grow in the same ground only every four years or so. Many tomato plant diseases lurk in the soil.