Tomatoes are perhaps among some of the most sought-after veggies for home gardens. You might even consider choosing some of the easiest varieties of tomatoes to grow, as some of them may be naturally ...

Close-up photo of tomatoes on the vine with mold and tomato blight - Irina Starikova1811/Shutterstock If you've started to notice dark spots, brown leaves, or yellow ...

One heavy rain or a single round with the hose could be the thing that ruins your tomato crop. Any amount of water that falls directly onto the plant's leaves can carry fungal spores that could lead ...

Claverack, NY -- As farmers and home gardeners set out their tomatoes this spring, plant experts offered suggestions for preventing another outbreak of late blight, which destroyed millions of dollars ...

Dear Carol: I read your column about tomato late blight a few weeks ago and would like to ask a couple more questions about the blight. I read that the late blight does not remain in the soil, but ...

Tomatoes are a prized crop that's relatively easy to grow. However, even though some varieties boast more resistance to diseases, blight can still be a major problem. Blight is a fungal disease that ...

This pernicious plague caused by the pathogen Phytophthora infestans was responsible for the 19th-century Irish potato famine, but also targets the tomato, queen among backyard crops. In its modern ...

15:22, Thu, Jul 17, 2025 Updated: 15:25, Thu, Jul 17, 2025 Blight is a fungal infection that is highly likely to infect garden tomato plants between June to August. Signs of blight include brown, ...

Alan warns in his September pests and diseases section: “Check tomatoes for signs of blight. In warm, wet weather an attack ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! I hope everyone’s garden is off to a great start for the summer of 2021. We started off unusually hot and dry, but are now receiving some rainy and cool ...

Q: We’ve been getting blight on our tomatoes the last couple of seasons. Can we spray something on the ground between now and planting time to kill the disease? A: No. The sprays that help head off ...

Tomatoes were piled high at the New Morning Farm stand at the Dupont Circle farmers market. Just as they should be in mid-August. But for Jim Crawford, this is not the peak of tomato season; it is ...