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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Tomatoes: The 10 most common mistakes

Tomatoes


Tomatoes: what did I do wrong?



The 10 most common mistakes:
  1. forgot to water REGULARLY
  2. forgot to fertilize REGULARLY
  3. forgot to put a cutworm collar around the transplant
  4. forgot to spray for or pick off caterpillars REGULARLY
  5. forgot to spray for disease REGULARLY
  6. planted at the WRONG time of the year (for SW FL that means planting Fall, Winter, and early Spring ONLY unless growing currant tomatoes)
  7. forgot to stake to keep off the ground
  8. watered leaves instead of soil
  9. handled WET plants
  10. forgot to weed REGULARLY