Handling tomato diseases

Believe it or not, what you do with your tomato plants after they die can have a huge impact on the health of your garden soil – as well as the tomato plants and other vegetables you grow in the same space in the future.  Some tomato plants die back because of natural causes and …

If there is one thing that brings terror to tomato growers, it’s late-season tomato blight. This fast-acting fungal disease starts from the ground up and quickly takes over tomato plants almost without warning.  When the cooler temperatures of late summer and fall arrive, the chances of late-season blight rise drastically. What starts out as a …