Experienced truck farmers after the rains carry out preventive measures - sprinkle beds with tomatoes of different compositions that help to fight diseases in the embryo. So, it's about whether you need to spray tomatoes after the rain and what solutions for this, if necessary, use.
Spraying tomatoes after the rain - yes or no?
If you are aiming at obtaining a stable crop, processing of the ground portion of the vegetable can not be avoided. It is known that in rain water tomato bushes often bring in spores of diseases, for example, phytophthors . Prolonged showers, high humidity, a sharp temperature drop, are all prerequisites for the development of the disease.
How to sprinkle tomatoes after the rain?
Of course, for the treatment of tomato shrubs it is better to use safe home remedies, for example:
- solution of whey, (1-2 liters to dissolve in a bucket of water);
- an ash solution (in 0.5 liters of water, 300 g of the substance is cooked for 15-20 minutes, then cooled, combined with 20 g of soap, and then stirred in 10 liters of water);
- infusion of garlic (200 g of teeth and arrows first crushed, then poured 10 liters of water, then insisted 2 days).
If we talk about what else to spray tomatoes after long rains, then such chemical means are excellent:
- iodine solution (10 drops of water drip 20 drops of the substance);
- a weak solution of potassium permanganate (take 1 g of the substance on a bucket of water);
- 1% Bordeaux liquid.
It is quite effective to spray tomatoes after rain with trichopolum - a non-toxic drug that produces an antifungal effect. The solution is prepared from 10 liters of water, in which 10 tablets of the substance are dissolved. In order for the resulting product to stick to tomatoes, it adds 200-250 g of milk.
In addition, in the arsenal of funds, than can be sprayed tomatoes after prolonged rains, there are bacterial products that are safe for humans. This is Fitosporin, Alirin-B, Gamair, Gliokladin.