Tips for growing tomatoes

 Tips and care:

For one month after  transplant tomato plant... don't add any fertilizer as the Potting soil we add initially  has manure/VC and bio fertilizers which r needed for the plants to start off. Liquid fertilizers can be sprayed.

When flowering starts u can add egg shells/banana peels/ bone meal/ epsom salt can be added on soil...again compost and manure every 15 days.

And watever liquid fertilizers JM/banana tea/buttermilk- hing /Kitchen waste leacheate .👍

[29/5/2022, 19:55] Neelima Gudipati: Summary of the session:

Rajendra Hegde sir talked about sucking pests and biting insects.

The chance of pests/insects are higher in summer than winter.

Sucking pests weaken the plants by sucking from leaves - aphids,mealy bug and thrips are from this variety.Also they form a protective layer. Either jet spray or soapnut solution, herbal shampoo solution,neem based oil one will help with breaking this protective layer.Spray weekly once

For biting insects - best is to use crushed leaves of tulsi,nerium,neem leaves,whitex,lantana,basale - 50gms per litre and then soak overnight and use this solution for spraying. Biting insects will use swallow this and die.

For snails, try to collect at one place, keep tomato slices or marygold leaves and collect the snails and sprinkle salt water.

 Coconut not flowering - give tension to the plant by hitting with an iron/copper nail

Coconut flowering but fruit falling off - boron deficiency, cover the soil with vegetable peels of 15 days to cover this deficiency

[15/06, 09:58] +91 99000 82028: Calcium deficiency. What you could do is - when you boil eggs, cool that water and pour it for your plants. Alternatively, dry your egg shells, powder it and place in vinegar for a day. Then dilute that in a 1:30 ratio and water your plant

.Garden pests management

DIY PEST CONTROL AND MAINTENANCE IN YOUR ROOFTOP GARDEN

1. ANTS: BLENDED GARLIC SPRAY, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR DILUTED WITH WATER.

2. APHIDS : COLLECT ONION PEEL FOR A WEEK, KEEP THEM CLOSED IN AN AIRTIGHT CONTAINER, POUR WARM WATER AND LEAVE FOR 10 DAYS CLOSED.SPRAY THE RESULTING LIQUID IN 1:5 PARTS OF WATER AND SPRAY.

3. CATERPILLARS- MIX EQUAL VOLUMES OF CHILLY AND WATER BLENDED AND SPRAY

4. CABBAGE MOTHS - MIX ¼ CUP VINEGAR,3/4 CUP WATER AND 1 Tspn DETERGENT

AND SPRAY

”5.MILDEW AND FUNGAL DISEASES IN GOURD VARIETY CLIMBERS - ADD MILK AND WATER AND SPRAY. CINNAMON POWDER CAN BE SPRINKLED AROUND PLANTS AND SOIL TO CONTROL FUNGUS.

6.BOTTOM ROT IN TOMATO PLANTS - ADD LIME POWDER ¼ CUP TO 3 LITRES OF

WATER AND SPRAY.

7.SNAILS AND SNUGS- POWDERED EGGSHELLS CAN BE SPRINKLED AROUND THE

BASE OF THE PLANTS.

8.FRUIT FLIES & APHIDS - PUT APPLE CIDER VINEGAR IN A JAR NEXT TO PLANTS.

INSECTS WILL FALL AND DROWN.

9.TOMATO LEAVES SOAKED OVERNIGHT AND STRAINED IS AN EXCELLENT NATURAL

PESTICIDE FOR APHIDS AND OTHER INSECTS.

10.BEETLES AND BORERS, APHIDS, CATERPILLARS - SPRAY NEEM OIL MIXED WITH SOAP OIL WHICH DOESNT CONTAIN CITRUS INGREDIENTS

11.INSECT REPELLANT PLANTS : a.tulsi

b.lemon grass

c.marigold

d.peppermint

e.thai basil

f citronella

g.mint

h.oregano