The phytophthora bothers many vegetable growers, tomatoes, without having managed to ripen, blacken and spoil. Each gardener has methods of fight against this misfortune. It is possible to try to make so that yield losses were minimum.
Fight against phytophthora of tomatoes begins with planting of seedling: plants land to the open ground at sufficient distance from each other. It provides good illumination and airing of plants. Bushes will turn out strong, fruits will ripen quicker. Before planting seedling, it is necessary to add to each pole on tea spoon of complex fertilizer. It is worth paying attention to nitrogen fertilizers: it is impossible to overfeed tomatoes with nitrogen and approximately from the middle of summer to move away him from fertilizing.
Carefully you treat removal of stepsons as through wounds mushrooms get to plant. You should not hill tomatoes, and here periodic loosening of row-spacings will do only good.
There are national ways of fight against phytophthora: to spray tomatoes with serum or infusion of garlic (garlic arrows), to puncture stalks with wire from copper. These ways can be tried if there is good weather.
There is set of special medicines on the basis of chemistry which are very effective. If weather rainy, then after processing by any chemical means for fixing of result of efforts it is possible to cover beds with polyethylene film that the rain has not washed away medicine.
If you see symptoms of the begun disease on bush, you should not pull out plant at once. It is necessary to remove the struck fruits and leaves and to process bush salt solution (10 liters of water and 1 glass of salt). On surface of plant the film is formed. After rain to repeat processing.