Home Vegetable Garden

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Home Vegetable Garden

• Part 2
• Vegetable Plant Care
• Modified by Georgia Agricultural Education
  Curriculum Office
• June 2002

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Sometimes a little specialcare pays off

• Removal of tomato suckers increases fruit
  production

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• Blanching is a process of denying light to
  certain plants to make them more tender, less
  bitter, more attractive

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Pollination assistance
Transfer ripe pollen from male to female
flowers Touch anthers to stick pistil in center
of female flower
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Pollination Assistance

• Squash, Cucumbers, Melons
• Small Corn Patch
• shake the stalks
• Tomato Plant
• shake plants to assist self pollination and
  initiate fruit set

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Control of Pests
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Plant pest resistant cultivars
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Beneficial Insect
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Plant a mix of flowers herbs
Queen-Annes lace, goldenrod, yarrow, penta, herbs
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Companion Planting
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Identify Pests

• Chewing Insects
• Corn ear Worm
• Tomato fruit worm

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Piercing / Sucking Insects

• Stinkbug
• Aphid

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Disease

• Tomato Early Blight

Prune out destroy disease shoots Disinfect
shears b/w cuts
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• Powdery
• mildew

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Harvest Time