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Tomato Plant Leaf Spots And Yellow Leaves

July 13, 2016 By Don Leave a Comment

Question from Don

My tomato plants are starting to display yellow leaves with dark brown spots near the bottom of the plants. On a few plants this seems to be spreading to the leaves immediately above the affected leaves. What can I do?

Answer from Master Gardener Bob

If you have noticed tomato leaf spots and the lower leaves turning yellow, you may have tomato early blight alternaria. This tomato disease causes damage to the leaves, stems and even the fruit of the plant.  Once a plant is infected tomato early blight alternaria, a fungicide can be sprayed on the plant. This can help reduce the damage from the plant, but frequently this will only lessen, not eliminate the problem. The best way how to treat leaf spot on tomatoes is to make sure it doesn’t occur in the first place. For future plantings, make sure the tomato plants are far enough apart. Also, don’t water the plants from overhead; use drip irrigation instead or water from the plant bottom. If you find Alternaria Alternata in your garden, make sure not to plant any other plants from the nightshade family in that spot for at least a full year. Destroy any tomatoes that have tomato leaf spots. Do not compost tomato plants with plant leaf spots, as this can re-infest your garden next year with tomato early blight alternaria.

Read more at Gardening Know How: Early Blight Alternaria – Treatment For Tomato Plant Leaf Spots And Yellow Leaves http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/tomato/early-blight-alternaria-tomato-leaf-spots-yellow-leaves.htm

Read more at Gardening Know How: Early Blight Alternaria – Treatment For Tomato Plant Leaf Spots And Yellow Leaves http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/tomato/early-blight-alternaria-tomato-leaf-spots-yellow-leaves.htm

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