Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

The Neamatodes are soil borne and they go for the roots of tomatoes. You need to pull and destroy by fire these plants. Next you will have to treat the soil to sterilize it to get a complete kill of the Nematode population. So the question is how with out turning the ground toxic for the rest of the garden. WELL,this is how you do it. You get enough Bar B Que Briguets to cover the area where you were growing the tomatoes. Then turn them under so they are just a couple of inches below the surface. Now cover the area again with more briquets and light them up. Get the whole plot burning. The ones on the top will ignite the ones underneath and just let it burn down to a fine ash. The point of this is to raise the soil temperature in the top 8 to 10 inches of soil where the nematode population lives and multiplies. Books will tell you to rotate crops for two years or to introduce other critters to counter the nematodes but nematodes are worse than rabbits
and aphids they are practically borne pregnant and so can elevate the numbers in to the billions in a very small space of time like, hours,so this process will eliminate the problem. In the mean time plant some tomatoes in Pots come winter you can bring them indoors and have tomatoes year around.(They are a Perennial.)

   DO NOT PUT INFECTED PLANTS IN COMPOST!!! EVER!!! Put them on the drive way douse them in Gas and torch them Roots and all!!!! This will save you and your neighbors a lot of grief for years to come.

When the charcol Briquets are all done just let it set for the rest of the season. Don't try to plant anything in it until next season and do not amend the soil in the fall Just Let It SET!! Come next spring plant some thing else there just to make sure like Beans. Plant your tomatoes somewhere else or in buckets. As for amending the soil next spring will be soon enough. 

jeff

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From: Nick Holmes <wwwcight@gmail.com>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Organic_Gardening] organic nematicide

 
what do the nematodes do to the tomatoes? The only nematodes I am familiar
with are the ones which eat slugs and leave the vegetables alone...

n

On 3 August 2011 18:01, Linda Sterne <sacredhorseranch@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> I have a pretty bad nematode problem with my tomato plants. Don't have the
> patience to solarize the beds for my fall planting (I'm ADD), so would like
> to use an alternative method of preventing future damage. I've used sesame
> hulls in the past with great results, but now I can't find them available,
> other than in mega quantities.
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> Anyone have a source? Or another method? I read that garlic repels
> nematodes - do you think mixing a tablespoon of garlic powder into the soil
> where I plant my tomatoes will help?
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