Prevent tomato blight

Have you heard the old say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? Today we are going to discuss tomato blight prevention. If you have ever had tomato blight in your garden you know it is nearly impossible to stop. I believe that we often have tomato blight problems in our gardens because we fail when it comes to tomato blight prevention.

Our steps of tomato blight prevention are simple, we are going to clean all the tools and equipment we used in a garden with tomato blight before starting our next gardening season. We are going to clean our garden shovels, pruners and twine we use for growing vertically with a mixture of bleach and water. We mix 1 part bleach to 9 parts water to clean our blight contaminated garden tools for our tomato blight prevention.

If you use tomato blight contaminated tools and equipment in your garden you are going to help spread that blight to next years crops. It only takes a few minutes to help prevent tomato blight in your garden.