Every tomato farmer’s main target is to produce many good and quality fruits for example to produce about five fruits per branch. Mostly this can be achieved through good managerial skills like good spacing of about one meter apart from one plant to another.
More stems does not guarantee more production of fruits but results to less fruits production for it leads to less spacing hence there is high competition of nutrients and space and high risk of losing all plants incase of a disease or pest invasion. Regardless of the amount of fertilizer supplied to the potato plants it needs spacing for it to yield good produce for there will be enough space for nutrient uptake, growing of the plant and its produce.
Benefits of spacing
There is less competition of nutrients among plants for nutrients are readily available, low prevalence of disease and pest invasion for it makes spraying easier and the spray is well distributed also, there is free air circulation in between the plants hence the plants can breath freely and above all production of good and quality fruits for the plants does not struggle for nutrients and they are healthy.
