Spraying Tomatoes

[GBax]

What does anyone spray their tomatoes with?
The options seem huge, Milk, Seaweed, Asprins, Epsom salts, Bordeaux Mixture etc etc

Interested to hear what folks on here bother with.

Thanks
Guy

[Martin H]

Mine are in the greenhouse and I don't spray them with anything. If I was relying on outdoor plants I'd probably spray with aspirin though.

[GBax]

Mine are in the Greenhouse but which is quite close to the potato patch (5 yards) and I have been keeping the door open to keep the heat down this week so I guess blight is a possibility

[Thelma Sanders]

I don't spray toms in the greenhouse with anything, routinely.

If I get Botrytis I spray the effected parts only with lemon juice
Overcoming Botrytis in Tomatoes, 18th Aug 1999 | Articles Archive | Medwyn's Exhibition Vegetable Seeds

[Alison]

I don't spray mine either although have watered in Epson salts before when needed. I don't use Bordeaux Mix on the basis it's horrible stuff and am not really convinced about the aspirin and milk arguments. Plus I suppose that aspirin is meant to make toms sweeter and I find a lot of them too sweet already.

[Jungle Jane]

Mine are outside,I haven't sprayed them with anything ever,maybe I will one day I don't know? Milks good for powdery mildew I think,I used it on my cucumbers once,but it felt wrong/mould! So I squirted it clean again.

[Jay-ell]

I notice that asprin is mentioned, what about willow water?

[SaraJH]

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Mine are in the Greenhouse but which is quite close to the potato patch (5 yards) and I have been keeping the door open to keep the heat down this week so I guess blight is a possibility

Wowee, I have serious greenhouse envy!

[Cadalot]

Aspirin to build up blight resistance Feed tomatoes ASPIRIN say scientists to fight disease and boost yield | Daily Mail Online

[Martin H]

Jay, willow water ought logically to work as well as aspirin (if you can get the dose roughly right). You could be leading the world with your experimental research!

[Jay-ell]

Jay, willow water ought logically to work as well as aspirin (if you can get the dose roughly right). You could be leading the world with your experimental research!

Let me see, ash seedlings, holy, cherry, hawthorn, blackberries, elder, something with leaves that look like maple (possibly a maple?). Nope no willow in the hedge. Must go on a hunt.

[Snoop Puss]

I don't spray with a liquid but at this stage in the season I do use a copper and sulphur powder some years. Three week safety period is easily complied with if I use it now after rains. Apparently not only a good fungicide and mild insecticide but also good for the chlorophyll.

Personally, I don't like spraying tomato plant leaves with liquid. I bought some neem oil at enormous expense but only used it once.

[goosander]

Had a lot of bother with vine weevil on other plants so I have just sprayed the whole of the plants once the sun has gone and so far they seam ok with water.
Just being a learner I do not know any better.
Bob

[sparrow100]

I don't spray with anything. I have used Bordeaux Mix on outdoor toms in the past, but I'd now really rather not.

If, or rather WHEN the outdoors ones get blight, they get destroyed. The ones in the greenhouse should be fine though unless blight is really bad. Usually blight doesn't hit till late August/early Sept on my site and last year the Crimson Crush tomatoes brushed that off completely.

[purplekat]

Bordeaux mix has been withdrawn from sale now anyway