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 ...

Black spots on tomato leaves are usually caused by fungal diseases like Septoria leaf spot or early blight, which thrive in warm, humid weather and can reduce yields or kill plants if untreated. Treat ...

“In all my years growing tomatoes, I’ve never seen a worse year,” gardeners tell me every so often. I hope this isn’t your worst year. Either way, there are reasons why it’s been tough. Disease or ...

Several seasons back, Jeff McCormack, Ph.D., founder of Garden Medicinals and Culinaries and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, shared a tomato pruning method with me that delays the onset of early ...

Tomatoes are usually the best part of many backyard gardens, but if you’ve ever tried growing them, you know they come with their own challenges. One of the biggest headaches for growers is early ...

Question: Why are the lower leaves of my tomato plants dropping off? They get brown spots on them and then turn yellow and fall off. I have been spraying the plants with Sevin. Answer: That sounds ...

The home gardeners and organic gardeners on the East Coast who were hit so hard by the early appearance of late blight are already wondering what next tomato season will bring. Is there something that ...