Rain over the first full weekend in August got me thinking about late blight, a devastating disease of tomatoes and other crops. Unfortunately, thought didn't lead to action. Reluctant to spray my ...

A regular fungicide spray program can often save your garden from many plant diseases like early blight, late blight, leaf spot, downy mildew etc. Don’t worry — fungicides are usually natural organic ...

Q: I have grown tomatoes for many years, but in the last five or six years, the tomato leaves got some disease or other and die. It keeps happening. How do I get this to stop? I have tried all kinds ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: My tomato plants get black spots on the leaves and then they turn yellow. It seems to start at the bottom of the plants and now it's halfway up the plants. The plants were supposed to ...

This year, my husband and I planted tomato transplants early (Feb. 11) in our three raised garden beds at our home. By mid-April we began picking tomatoes and feel that we had a tremendous harvest. We ...