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Ct

After 30 days of damp cloudy wet weather here in CT my tomatoes are just beginning to show signs of disease. Is there something I can spray to stop or slow it in it's tracks? I have some captan but tomatoes are not listed on the label, only fruit trees and such.Other than that, the plants are extremely full , green and healthy looking.{ maybe it was the myco? }

6/26/2009 8:18:26 AM

Bloomington, IN

Could you give a description of the disease?

6/26/2009 2:19:34 PM

Ct

Some yellowing leaves starting at the bottom , and dried up leaves on some branches as well { brown } but overall not too bad, but I'm assuming it's the start of something that may more than likely spread throughout all the plants.

6/27/2009 10:28:46 AM

Bloomington, IN

This might help.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/publications/tomatoproblemsolver/leaf/

Main page
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/publications/tomatoproblemsolver/

6/29/2009 1:37:39 AM

Ct

Looks like septoria leaf spot. I think it's the same thing that wiped them out last year although this year 95% of the plants are currently looking healthy other than those few lower branches starting to yellow and brown and dry up.

6/29/2009 1:05:54 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Do you have your plants mulched. When it rains is the soil able to splash up on to your leaf. tomatoes are very suseptable to blight.

6/29/2009 2:05:52 PM

Ct

No mulch, but I think that is what is happening. { last year too }. I'll get some shredded straw today and put it down.

6/30/2009 6:40:52 AM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

i like grass as a mulch, works well.

6/30/2009 9:46:57 AM

Bloomington, IN

When I buy a bale of straw for the maters what I like to do is peel off the straw in 'layers', flat squares of straw 1-2 inches thick that aren't loose but still tight like they were on the bale. I then take those squares and place them around a tomato like I was making a square consisting of nine straw squares with the edges packed together tightly, but with the center piece gone were the tomato is. I then fill the empty space with shredded newspaper. I like this method because it smothers the vast majority of weeds as a result of the straws tightness, yet water and air pass threw with ease. Spiders, crickets and other garden allies like it too.

6/30/2009 12:19:09 PM