How To Identify Garden Problems With Tomato Plants

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1. I started some heirlooms in pots last year. They had very large bushy looking flowers that didn't give any fruit. This year they are bearing fruit. Do you know why the flowers would do that?
2. Some of our tomatoes are starting to shrivel up on the very top.  I have cut the branches off so they aren't touching the soil.  Any treatment?
3. I use chemicals as little as possible on my food I grow. Marigolds can be planted as a companion plant which it's a natural preventive for some pests especially nematodes. I also have some weak plants that I use as a decoy plants away from the healthy plants I use for food that the pests seem to go for more then my food. A safe "insecticide" I use dawn dish soap. Put a tablespoon in a gallon of water and spray my plants with it. If you spray you plants(food) with insecticide and other poisons that's what your going to eat.
4. How long do you have to keep the sheeting on for?
5. How can solarization with a plastic sheeting heat the dirt deep enough to kill the fungus around plant roots? Certainly you are not going to see temperatures of 160 degrees more than a fraction of an inch below the top. 
6. What about using food grade peroxide and water mix... and using baking soda, canola oil mix... there ARE WAYS to help fungus'... :)
7. What causes the wilt to form?
8. very informative video. thank you for posting
9. It's Las Cruces and its in New Mexico
10. Thank you so much. I have learned a lot from you guys. Los Cruces is south of where I live in the Phoenix Az. area. Very informative.
11. thanks..