Irrigation and fertilization.

Abstract

This chapter provides irrigation and fertilization guidelines for tomato crop production, and highlights the water and fertilization requirements of the plant at different stages of development, interactions between nutrients, response to deficiencies and excesses of N, P, K, Ca and Mg, and interactions between watering and fertilization regimes as they relate to various physiological disorders (blossom-end rot, goldspot, oedema, fruit cracking and russeting).