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Tomamto disease
Hi
I have a problem with my tomatoes & was told to spray them with Baking Soda.
I have Baking Powder, is that the same thing or do I use Bicarbonate of Soda
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Hi Maura
Tell us a bit more about the problem. If you can post a picture that would be good.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have sent you two separate pictures of the tomato plants in question.
I would be very grateful if you could give me some advice. Thanks
The photos haven't appeared here - did you click on the green tree?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Do you know why you have been told to spray them with baking soda? I've never heard of that before.
Are you sure it isn't Epsom Salts you need?
Do they have brown spots by any chance? If so, I have the same problem and was looking for an answer last night. Pics would be helpful but you can't copy and paste them, you need to click the green tree as Dove said. Unless of course you are on a phone??
Here are a couple of mine where the leaves have gone brown spotty and yellow spotty and one that just looks sad but I don't know why? They all get treated exactly the same. Do these resemble any of yours Maura?
One of mine looks like the last one. I tried clicking on the green tree but nothing happened. I will try again tomorrow
Here are the pictures of the poorly tomato plants.
Looks like the top one has a mineral deficiency - have you fed it with Tomorite or similar? Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate and baking powder is a mixture of this with tartaric acid. Neither supply anything useful. Yellow leaves coud be caused by magnesium deficiency, which you coud try and rectify by spraying or watering with Epsom salts (magnesium carbonate), although Tomorite has magnesium in it.
The lower one looks very healthy: leaf curlng like this is normal. Is it a bush variety? Otherwise the side-shoots ought to have been removed, but it looks a bit late now!