Mid-Summer Help for Tomatoes

Summer Tomato Care: Tips for a Healthy, Bountiful Garden

Summer is the perfect time to enjoy fresh, homegrown tomatoes. Keeping your plants healthy through the season ensures a bigger harvest and tastier fruit. Here’s how to get the most from your tomato garden.

Encourage Fruit Set

To help your tomatoes blossom and produce more fruit, consider using a plant hormone spray like Monterey Tomato & Blossom Set. This ready-to-use product:

• Boosts flowering and increases blossom set
• Encourages earlier fruit production
• Can be used on tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, eggplants, melons, peppers, strawberries and grapes

Treating plants early in the season can give you a head start on your harvest.

Prevent Blossom-End Rot

Blossom-end rot is a common tomato problem caused by calcium deficiency. It shows up as a round, sunken brown spot at the bottom of the fruit and turns dry and leathery as the tomato ripens. Factors that worsen it include:

• Too much nitrogen fertilizer
• Periods of rapid growth
• Uneven watering or heavy rains that wash calcium from the soil

Protect Against Pests and Diseases

Tomato plants can attract a variety of insects and fungal diseases. Bonide Tomato & Vegetable RTU provides broad protection by controlling:

• Insects: aphids, mites, caterpillars, whitefly, scale, thrips and more
• Fungal diseases: powdery mildew, leaf spots, rust, blight, scab, brown rot and others

This product is safe to use up to one day before harvest, keeping your fruit healthy and ready to pick.

By encouraging fruit set, preventing blossom-end rot and protecting against pests and diseases, your tomato plants can thrive all summer long, giving you a delicious, homegrown harvest to enjoy fresh from the garden.