HOW DO I CONTROL ALL THESE TOMATO DISEASES?!

What's the difference between bacterial wilt vs. early blight? What's the best way to control all these different tomato diseases? Let's learn the best way to control these pesky diseases.
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[@lindamoore4043]

I love watching the two of you together. Miss it.

[@donp9492]

I know I say this all the time, my favorite show by pops and son is row by row !

[@michaeljamesgeorge4223]

Same

[@TheHivefl]

I am using reflective mulch on my tomatoes this year. I am central FL, the TYLCV is bad here. All the commercial guys are using reflective mulch now. Also, 8 am growing Red Snapper and Purple Boy (not TYLCV resistant ) from Hoss!!! Thank you guys !!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

@Grayson McCorcmick Definitely let us know how that reflective mulch works for you.

[@kentrogers196]

I LOL'd at the "smoking shed" story at school. In the 70's at Wake Forest-Rolesville HS, NC, if you were 16 you could smoke in designated areas, usually at the end of a school building. Didn't need any note from home. Just be 16. 15 yr olds or younger were not allowed to smoke. When the bell rang to change classes it always looked like the ends of the school buildings were on fire due to all the smokers lighting up to burn one before the next class. Winstons and Marlboro Reds were the most popular brands back in the day. About 30 cents a pack.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Great story! Thanks for sharing.

[@lisareis8117]

I am in love with this grow light! Y’all thought of everything.

[@eazypeazy33]

Always got the best stuff HOSS!

[@mattingly1217]

I still enjoy watching yalls old videos

[@MattB8030]

I needed this information right here, thanks guys.

[@sarahmcqueen2319]

Loved this! Thanks guys!

[@brianking6671]

haven't blanched corn on the cob for years. just clean and vacuum seal. i've got corn in the freezer that is 3 years old and still taste great.

[@jerryvassar3788]

Like your grow light . Thanks for the info on tomato disease . Like you show .

[@katiem9644]

Thanks for answering my question on the show. You guys rock.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks for watching Katie!

[@tamieboblitt7324]

Great show guys I always have disease problems ever year last year i tilled up a new spot still had problems y’all mentioned some things I will try this year.thanks y’all have a Blessed day

[@citylotgardening6171]

Alot of good info thanks for sharing

[@oldnorthstateoutdoors2002]

We have most definitely had our share of rain here in Western NC. Had two beautiful days in a row and the rain is coming back tomorrow for about a week. Luckily I haven't planted anything out yet. Started my Hoss onion seeds yesterday.

[@joysikes4352]

Thanks for all the mater info !!! Great show as usual !

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks for watching Joy!

[@welchfarmnc]

still one of the best gardening information videos on line Thanks for the time you give us

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks for watching!

[@stevefromthegarden1135]

I had to chuckle when you talked about how different things were at school in the old days. When my mom went to Jr High school back in the late 40's, they had a gun club and the shooting range was in the basement of the school. Kids were able to bring their rifles and shotguns to school for gun club. I went to the same school in the early 80's and while the gun club was long gone, the shooting range was still there. (not in use) In high school kids could smoke outside, no note needed. I think they put an end to that a year or 2 after I graduated. (a good thing) BTW: This was in Wis.

[@classicrocklover5615]

Sounds similar to Michigan! I attended HD in the mid to late 80s. Students could bring their deer rifles to school, but had to leave them in their trucks. They could bring a gun in for a demonstration speech on how to clean it, but it had to be checked in and inspected by the principal first.

[@sydneydbrooks]

Great information guys! Enjoyed the show as always!😃👍

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks Sydney!

[@randallweiland9471]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@charlespeterson9934]

Great knowledge this week thanks you two

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks Charles!

[@leahness3588]

Shoot, I had already ordered my pimiento pepper from another company. But good to know you have it now. Another pepper I thought was hard to find was a paprika pepper. For making smoked paprika powder.❤❤👍

[@denisemiller8620]

Thanks for the great information regarding tomato diseases.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks for watching Denise!

[@SherrysCraftinggarden]

Thank you so much for the help. I have started alot of my seeds doing great so far.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Wonderful

[@taylorrobins5090]

Good last two videos. I’m a heavy planter on corn and maters so a lot of good information the last two weeks. Got my first batch of mater seeds started, first batch of peppers, broccoli, and onions. I’m in 7B and i may go out on a limb and plant a week early. Rule of thumb I’ve grown up on is to plant corn on Good Friday but I will be on vacation that week so I’m planting last week of March. Zone 7B below Atlanta. Side note, I was highly considering building a pond right below my garden to use for irrigation with my drip tape, I’m glad I saw the last question. Moving on to next plan. No well and no water source. Relying on Mother Nature and bringing tanks full of water to the land weekly.

[@michellem5997]

My husband got his Benchmade 20 years ago and he still carries it every day. Great knife.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

That's awesome! Lots of memories on that thing I bet!

[@tommathews3964]

Great show guys! We dang sure have our share of issues here in the deep south! I like that little carrot you dangled for show watchers with the Brick Yards! That will teach folks to watch! ;)

[@lindaedwards9756]

I have debated taking the master gardener class here in SC for years but I’m really only interested in the garden part so I never have . I feel like I’m sitting in horticulture class every time I watch your videos. All I’m missing is a work book 😂. Your information is so on point to my SC zone 7 garden. I thank you 🙏

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks for watching Linda!

[@lindaedwards9756]

Never miss one 😌

[@Ckeese75]

Hey guys, Haven’t started watching yet, but I love to chime in before the show. I’m super excited for this episode, got my after dinner coffee and just checked on my 400 hundred tomato, and 260 pepper starts and I’m ready to learn something!!! Thanks guys, need to grow some great tomatoes this year, want to put up a whole mess of em’. Yahoo! Let’s get into this show!!!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks for watching Christy!

[@markware7748]

Second comment--- That's actually a very good value on that 6400w LED fixture. LED's are cheap to run too. Tomato diseases have just been killing me over the last few seasons in the hoop house. Good tip on the soil drench and noting whitefly as a disease vector. I'll be watching this episode more than once. Information you just can't get anywhere else. Many thanks.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

👍

[@shannonsmith9186]

Fantastic class on Tomato diseases! I struggled a lot for years with many of these diseases/virus, etc here in East Alabama. Last year, I switched to drip irrigation and I trimmed any limbs of my tomatoes that wanted to touch the ground. I also switched to disease resistant hybrid varieties rather than the heirloom varieties. I had a pretty successful year. I'm hoping to improve and make this year even better. The one pest I have got to figure out how to get rid of is leaf-footed bugs.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Great to hear of your success. Those leaf-footed bugs are tough. You can manage them early in the season, but the population will just boom come July. At that point, we call it a day with tomatoes and decide not to give them any more habitat for breeding.

[@3DThrills]

My results so far this year are surprising me. I've never grown anything this pretty. I think the key is to give the plant the strongest immune system possible. I use Azomite, Masterblend and Silica for strong plants. I'm using a method where the pot drinks so much water, I don't have to worry about rain, even here in Florida. They may fizzle out but they look freakily good so far.

[@jenbuckner6924]

My Bloomsdale longstanding spinach went through the snowstorm and 12F uncovered last week, some hardy plants there! Just wanted to mention (my entomology is coming out here) thrips is the singular and plural form. Great info tonight as always!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks Jen. Good to hear that your spinach is still kicking!

[@slomo1716]

Amazing video!!! I thought "BLIGHT" was blight and the reason for my tomato plants looking so bad, but now realize there are other reasons why my tomato leaves droop, yellow and die. I have cut off every branch with the black/brown dots hoping I have remedied the situation. I knew it couldn't be splash back, because I was very careful about pruning the bottom of the plants. Some are in grow bags and others are in the ground, this is my first year I actually had to pull out dying tomato plants. I certainly got an education about tomato diseases in this video, and will not grow next year to allow the soil to rest.

[@candacethompson2521]

Great show !!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks Candace!

[@LauraMartinez-rf3dm]

I'm here for the good info... But my favorite parts are when Mr. Greg says stuff like, "Pablatos". You're definitely one of a kind! 😂

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Travis here. I can attest that he mispronounces things when the camera is off just as much as he does when it's on. 😂

[@bruceloder1948]

I have cut down a lot of those tomato diseases using a thick layer of straw as a mulch and using drip irrigation. The leaves don't touch any dirt. Good article.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

You are correct. Thanks for joining us.

[@archieburson4301]

Hey guys .....another Good informative show and appreciate all the tips and all the questions that you get and the way you answer them. I planted a garden for about 20 years. We moved to another area, built the house and I tried gardening but it was disastrous due to Top soil loss so I quit gardening. I'm going to get back into gardening again and to be honest with you when I watch your shows I am amazed at how much I don't know and I always thought that I was a pretty knowledgeable gardener but after 33yrs, I realize how much I have forgotten. At 73 I'm fixing to get back to gardening again over in the area around Soperton, Georgia and the land that I'm going to be using has been cleared of pine trees ( two years ago ) and has sat there this whole time unattended. I would sincerely appreciate any information and or tips that you can provide as far as soil preparations. I purchased about 12 ea.4' by 8' by 17" raised garden kits. Potatoes, okra and corn are three vegetables that I want to continue planting in the ground. Unfortunately there was a lot of topsoil lost when they were pushing brush into burn piles. Thank you guys for all that you do for us gardeners here in Georgia. Your response would be greatly appreciated and I hope that you gentlemen and your business continues to thrive and be successful, May God Bless You and Yours.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Add as much organic matter as you can. Then incorporate compost. Do this every planting season.

[@NebraskaDav]

Love your shows. So much good useable information every week. We received the fertilization schedule for corn but now I'm wondering what is your schedule for tomatoes from seed planting to harvest? Nebraska Dave Urban Farmer

[@gardeningwithhoss]

We'll definitely be talking about that soon!

[@lanesteele240]

I like how greg always gets a paper stack, flips over the first page and never reads one word off them. Lol

[@deborahtofflemire7727]

Good show guys from Ontario Canada

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks Deborah!

[@thewildingslanding]

Our high school had a smoking section... we had to have a note from parents, the school printed out a laminated pass that had to be worn while in the section so that administration could tell you were permitted.

[@robertchall8576]

I like buck knife been using them for years and years .

[@jpoppinga8417]

Started my onions last week. Up here in Zone 3.

[@williamwright9440]

i love yalls show and when i was a kid i loved growing tomatos , but this is overwhelming , i havent had one decent year (crop) of tomatos since then. WWW

[@homesteadcomelately6801]

Great info! I lost a bunch of my tomatoes last year and couldn’t find an answer to what was happening…you just identified it…southern bacterial blight! I’m in Jacksonville Florida where the humidity is high. Here’s my question…I see 2 plants right now that have it- can I pull the plant, and put another plant in that spot? Or will it die too? Love you show! Love your company!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

pull and replant in that spot

[@brianramsey3824]

I like the info for the backyard warrior

[@MrHackfu]

As a person who owns a sharpening business, I concur with the Buck and the Benchmade. If you really have a hard time keeping track of your knives, I recommend a Stanley 10-049. Versatile with a replaceable blade. My Pappy carried one for gardening and woodworking. His "fancy" knives were Old Timers.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

👍

[@jumpyjenny2532]

Something that really helps me get control of white flies and aphids is spraying my roses early and often. Roses are magnets for both and even though they are not inside my vegetable garden, they are not too far away on my property. Pyrethrins or Azamax work well.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Give our Horticultural oil a try. It works for us.

[@sydneydbrooks]

Hey Guys! I was wondering where in the process you are on releasing the Hoss Tools Cookbook? With the garden fixing to bust loose soon sure would love some of Ms Hoss’s recipes as well as some from everyone here in the Row by Row group! THANKS!!🥰

[@gardeningwithhoss]

We definitely want to do one at some point. We've just been so slammed these last few years, we haven't had any extra time to design it.

[@druemiller3111]

So plant whisperer. Is that so, or sow? Started Hoss tomato, cabbage, lettuce and flower seeds. 72 cell tray. 99%+ germination. Very satisfied. Looking forward to spring in East Texas zone 8b.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Always great to hear of good germination! Thanks for choosing us.

[@lindafeinauer5634]

Our tomato plants end up looking like the picture. What we plan to do is try sun shade after they get a good start. Last year our plants were beautiful in the spring and the when summer hit the leaves started drying up and falling off. We did trim them up and kept them off the ground. By early fall when it wasn’t so hot the tops started growing and looking like spring again. My husband thinks our sun is much hotter than it use to be so we got 40 percent shade cloth and will try that this year.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

We've found that no tomato can really handle it down here once temps start to hit the mid 90s in July. Shade cloth is a good idea though!

[@davidmartin6312]

great information guys. i was wondering what brand of bib overalls you are wearing ?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Liberty, Key and Pointer are the 3 brands

[@gregleach5833]

You are correct about tomato diseases and your geographic area of the country . I lived in south part of Ohio and tomatoes grew like weeds . You could throw out tops of tomatoes after cutting it off before slicing and dozens of plants would sprout and grow small tomatoes without doing anything at all . I live in South Georgia for several years now and you have to do things differently like youall said . Warm and lower humidity like 85 degrees and low humidity makes a big difference!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Testify!

[@jeffclawson1677]

Great info on the tomato diseases. I have been researching grow lights and have found the spectrum outputs vary quite a bit. How close to natural sunlight is the spectrum output from your new grow lights?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

As close as you'll get. That's why we chose 6400K LED lights.

[@jeffmartin2223]

I don't have enough pollinators. Is there a parthenocarpic yellow squash? I love your videos and your products. I'm looking forward to trying the mercury cucumber seeds I got from y'all.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Here's a good short article from Cornell on that subject: www.hort.cornell.edu/expo/proceedings/2014/Vine%20crops/Seedless%20squash%20Reiners.pdf We do carry several of the varieties listed there.

[@susanstewart7663]

What insecticides do you recommend for thrips and whiteflies? So glad I found your channel, it's great information as I live 2 hours east of you.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

check out this video where we talk about them and what to do for each one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYCnq5Ksd9eHnpo

[@ronniepate4315]

Thanks for all that wonderful info . If you were to burn your garden waste , how far away from your should it be be burnt how far away from your garden . Should you be , and does it make a difference ?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Our burn pile is not that far from the garden -- probably only 50 ft. or so. Farther away would be better, but you just have to work with the layout of your own place.

[@TeeGeeOh]

Good stuff! Travis, what brand is your shirt? Thanks!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

LL Bean

[@johnnalitt137]

Oh, Brickyard tomatoes!!! Ok, I'll be watching!!

[@larryangle5404]

I love your show. I have the bell clicked to let me know when you have a new show. I would like to set a time and day on my phone. When are you on live Larry

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Our Row by Row show airs every Thursday night at 8:00pm EST.

[@noahbradshaw9229]

Great show! Would it be ok to transplant summer squash and cucumbers or would it be better to direct seed them. Wondering if I could transplant to get a little head start. Thanks!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

You can certainly transplant them -- many folks do.

[@billybradyjr6008]

Greg be careful with those Buck knifes. It doesn’t take much lint to keep that blade from locking!! Ask me how I know.

[@jameswoodsjr1576]

I'm the same on bell peppers. I like the reds and orange and yellows, but can't stand the greens.

[@johnc6228]

Hosts for thrips to look out for are Prickly Lettuce (Lactuca serriola), Cheeseweed (Malva parviflora), and Sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus) Other viruses can be from thrips on basil, lettuce and flowering Vinca. Phytophthora is fye TOPH thore ah. When it's 4 syllables the accent is on the second syllable. This genus is such a problem with many nursery and vegetable crops in the NEast with all the wet clay.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Thanks for sharing that valuable info John!

[@hondosmith8234]

Greg should try a Jimmy Nardello Pepper they have likely the highest bricks of the pepers and a wonderful flavor they grill well with any meat and onions and are very productive plants. I would almost bet that they would be one of your best sellers given time.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

We've heard that is a good one! Thanks for the suggestion.

[@hondosmith8234]

Great show as always I have a question regarding potatoes. More specifically Sweet Potatoes I have a really hard time getting slips here and last year I started some slips off of sweet potatoes and they done very well I believe that they were the Georgia jets they had a good flavor I still have a few of them that I was going to start slips with again when would you recommend starting them?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

We aim to get our sweet potatoes in the ground towards the end of May, but can plant them as late as July and still be fine with our long summers. They'll need about 100 days of hot weather, so you can figure your planting date based on that and your climate.

[@janking2762]

If you did freeze corn on the cob for whatever reason, cut into 2-3” pieces, put them in a pan with some hot oil, chopped red peppers, garlic, chopped basil, sauté until the corn starts to brown, serve as finger food. Best served in middle of winter...

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Sounds delish!

[@hdborden]

We're cutting up our Yukon Gold potatoes while watching the show and over half have bad spots on the inside of the seed potato. Will this be alright to plant or will it cause issues down the line for our garden? What causes them to go bad on the inside when the potatoes look amazing on the outside? We're first time potato planters and want to prevent any issues for our crop. Thank you for all of your great videos!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

They should be fine. The sprout only needs a little bit of that potato for energy until it starts feeding on the soil. Some of the ones I cut a few days ago had those as well.

[@opalezell319]

When are you all getting large bottom trays,bought 2 planting trays, can't use without bottom trays to catch water.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

It's going to be a while. The container ship still hasn't left England where they're made.

[@apiecemaker1163]

I asked my local co-op one time how to I could prevent all the diseases from getting my tomatoes and they said by not growing tomatoes. Lol My diseases I mostly deal with is early blight and blossom end rot. We love our tomatoes though so will keep growing.🍅❤️👩‍🌾 Thank you for all the info. And AMEN on creamin your corn.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

He's right! If you grow tomatoes long enough, you're going to get one of them. FYI Blossom End Rot is not a disease. It's a calcium deficiency.

[@apiecemaker1163]

@@gardeningwithhoss thank you.

[@AliciasInTheKitchen]

Travis, have you figured out how you are going to trellis your tomatoes this year? Are you going to use t-posts or do you have something else up your sleeve?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

I'll be using the Florida Weave on determinate as I always do. Going to try and find some 4-5' t-posts as I think that will be better than the wooden stakes. I'll probably put the indeterminate ones in cages.

[@NorthTexasGardening]

The seed starting trays are very nice but messy without the bottom tray. When will the bottom trays be back in stock?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

As soon as we can get them from England. Lots of production delays across the board with COVID.

[@kernalsamazingworld3175]

I have been watching your channel for 2 or 3 years now, I enjoy it very much . Y'all talk about tomatoes a lot, but I have a question ? When temperatures stay above 70 to 75 degrees at night , they won't set blooms? Is this true? Thank you . Good luck

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Not sure about the nighttime temperatures, but usually we start to see blooms dropping with beans and a lot of things at 90 degrees during the day.

[@bernardkleinschmidt5930]

I have been raising my tomatoes in a high tunnel for about 20 years. Never a problem with disease. The big thing about growing outside is the rain on the plants. I plant in April, start harvest in June and only quit when Jack Frost says it's time to quit. This is in October. By then plants are about 15 feet long. (Single stem, supported on string from ceiling. Most of the time plants are in the same hole as the year before.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Yep. Growing in a high tunnel provides a very controlled environment where you can eliminate most of the environmental factors that cause these diseases.

[@michellel5444]

I live in Missouri and get septoria in late season. I use copper and remove leaves but the later the season I give up. They are about done by then anyway.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Ours are done around July, regardless how disease-resistant they are. They don't like temps in the mid 90s.

[@StarrThomason]

What were the knife brands? My husband lost his so I was thinking about getting one as a gift.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Buck or Benchmade

[@DV-ol7vt]

Most of my garlic and onions froze and died and that’s in Texas if you can believe it. It was looking great before the winter freeze. I orders onions and had them in early this year and they were already big enough to eat. Sometimes I can’t win for losing.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Sorry to hear that.

[@markware7748]

Plagued in recent years by late blight, septoria leaf spot, and tomato spotted wilt virus in the hoop house. This year's grow will be Bella Rosa, Red Snapper, Summerpick , Roadster and Tachi plus some heirloom indeterminates. I want to alternate liquid copper with Complete Disease Control for fungal diseases and also alternate Takedown with Spinosad against whitefly, thrips and aphids. Can I mix one fungicide and one pesticide together in the sprayer per weekly spray cycle?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

You surely can mix them. I would add them in the tank separately though. Spinosad and Liquid Copper don't mix well for some reason, so dissolving them separately is best.

[@thomaslinden7598]

What do you think about ferti-lome liquid fungicide. Broad spectrum

[@gardeningwithhoss]

If you don't mind systemic treatments, I think it would probably work well too.

[@carolavant3778]

I think I've lost plants to everything but the mosaic virus. Until I started using the drip tape system and wheel hoe, I wasted a lot of money on tomato plants and tomato seeds. Y'all have sure taught me a lot! Even last year when I lost half my plants to Grazon contamination, I still had a great yield for canning. I'm looking forward to this Spring season and many more to come!

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Hopefully no Grazon contamination this year!

[@loganyoutube4818]

You guys should look into getting some beneficial microbe inoculant...I would buy some since I know you guys only carry quality products....would go well with the no till plot too ;)

[@gardeningwithhoss]

We just added some granular inoculant to the site a couple weeks ago. Meant to mention it on the site this week, but forgot. Here's the link: hosstools.com/product/granular-garden-soil-inoculant/

[@loganyoutube4818]

@@gardeningwithhoss oh good I need that too but I was referring to ones meant for more than just legumes...ones like Cornell universities t-22 tricoderma and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi...often times a big mixture of beneficials are put into the higher quality organic garden fertilizer brands

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Gotcha. We definitely need to add something like that to our lineup if we can source enough of it.

[@susanbergling8781]

Will you have the 30'x40' silage tarps in stock soon???

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Hopefully in the next few weeks. Plastic is in short supply due to COVID and that likely will continue. As soon as we get some cut, they're gone shortly after we put them back on the site.

[@Merrilou]

We are rebuilding and refilling all our raised beds this spring. I get to start a rotation from the beginning. I am in zone 8b in East Texas, which means we have split seasons like ya'll do there. So, do I rotate counting 3 seasons, or do I rotate counting 3 years? By the way, even with temps down to zero, I only lost the smallest of my onions. Those texas 1015's are tougher than I expected. We had freezing rain, then about 8 inches of powder snow, then icy wet snow on top of that. Maybe the powder snow acted as an insulator?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Very fortunate on those onions. For the rotation, count years and not seasons.

[@cindylouwho7667]

Is it necessary to use grow lights in a greenhouse setting ? First year starting seeds and I’m unsure on what temp needs to be to move from my house to the greenhouse. Also I have them in 6 cell trays and when I up pot what size would you go to ? I am zone 7B and won’t go in ground until after April 17th.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Grow lights aren't necessary in a greenhouse. We like stepping up to 4" pots when we do it.

[@rachelhunter5569]

As we get ready to plant the garden in a couple to three weeks, is it good to use preventative sprays on the plants as soon as you plant them? One other thing, a garden center that we were going to purchase top soil from uses dead leftover sod and grinds it into the top soil that they sell you. We need 14 yds for our garden beds. Is the ground up dead sod ok to use in the garden?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

If you consistently have issues with diseases or insects, it's always good to start spraying not long after planting as a preventative measure. Don't see why that topsoil would be an issue, assuming it hadn't been sprayed with anything that has a long residence time in the soil.

[@newarkgardener6187]

What if you're planting in buckets? Does it help from getting wilt or viruses

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Just be sure to clean your buckets after growing tomatoes and use new soil in them.

[@lanesteele240]

I love your products and im pretty much a brand fanboi but, did you ever resolve the single tine cultivar? Im going to need one soon but i dont want to buy one and then you guys get stock in.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

We have some heads in house, just need to get them painted and handles put on them. Shouldn't be too much longer.

[@lanesteele240]

@@gardeningwithhoss thank you.

[@qtcourtney6]

I use woven ground cover, I have drip irrigation and prune lower leaves up at least a foot. I still get disease due to the splash when it rains I’m assuming. I know you all don’t use it but any ideas how to fix this? Anyway to disinfect the cover itself, I save it and use the same stuff every year.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Hmm. That's definitely likely your problem if you're using the same cover every year. Not sure of any easy, feasible way to disinfect it.

[@garymanning9357]

I have four 30' X 35' plots with 10' runways between. Do I need four different soil test or will one accumulative test do.

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Probably will want to do a test for each plot.

[@MrRandy741985]

I have read that covering the garden with black plastic can get the temperature up to 165 degrees that will kill blight, do you know if that works? Thanks

[@gardeningwithhoss]

In the heat of summer, it could get it pretty hot. 165 is toasty.

[@randallweiland9471]

How do I apply liquid cop to my tomato plants?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Just mix 2 oz per gallon in a pump sprayer and spray the entire plant -- coverage is key.

[@grannyreplacingthegrass6836]

You said to get rid of old tomato plants. Can they be put in compost bin?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

If you can get your compost pile hot enough to kill insect eggs and fungal spores. If not, just burn it.

[@loganyoutube4818]

Radishes are good biofumigators for soybean cyst nematodes

[@gardeningwithhoss]

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[@mugglemunchies3327]

I’m in SE Louisiana and lost all my starts. Do I have time to start all over?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Plenty of time. You have a very long growing season and will be just fine!

[@doloresharkins5050]

I looked for your multiplying onions on web site and have never been able to find them??

[@gardeningwithhoss]

We have to wait until we harvest the current crop, and then dry them after harvesting. They'll probably be ready to sell on the site come fall, when most folks will need to plant them.

[@MrMatthewJWilliams]

I have to use city water at my house for drip irrigation. I am concerned about the chlorine in the water. Do you think those in line chlorine filters would reduce output enough to make the drip tape not work or the fertigation set up not work?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

As long as your flow rate is still in the range of a couple gallons per minute, you should be fine.

[@starrmasner6015]

can you plant peppers after taters?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

It's definitely not ideal. Try not to plant the same family in the same spot for 1-2 years if you can.

[@sum88brit]

What if you only have a small garden and can not rotate crops?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Just do the best you can. Try not to plant the same crop in the same "row" in consecutive years if possible.

[@herbcounselorh7734]

A question, can you spray grass killer around onions to kill grass but still save the onions? :- )

[@gardeningwithhoss]

You'd have to be really careful. I think the better solution would be to use a pre-emergent herbicide prior to planting.

[@lindahorton4150]

I have been putting tomato plants in containers. Anything you would do differently if not putting in the ground?

[@gardeningwithhoss]

Just refresh the soil in the containers if you use the same containers for tomatoes year after year.