Please add me to the list. I am a gardening fool from Missouri. I have a garden in central MO and one about 150 miles to the SW. Lettuce, radish, and onion crops have been perfect this year. The cold killed off the peach crop but the apples look great. Using different approach this year to keep the fungus from getting my tomatoes—newspaper, instead of forage mulch.
Are you rotating your crops , or growing exactly where you were growing tomatoes where you weredoing so last year ?
Have you ever laid the ground fallow , or with a green manure crop ?
The reason why I ask is because fungus crops occur where they were planted last
Consider crop rotation .
Will add you and welcome. What towns are your gardens close to? Does someone help you with the garden that is 150 miles away?
I had that same problem. I had it start this year but I think I’ve beat it. I did two things. I cut the bottom out of those plastic pots landscapers get their plants in and put them around the bottom of the tomato plant after trimming the bottom branches. Then after watering or after every rain put 1 ½ tablespoon of baking soda per gallon of water in a pump up sprayer and wet the entire plant both bottom and top of leaves to wash it thoroughly. The fungus is neutralized by the baking soda and kills it. I had the fungus start this year after the first rain so did that and the fungus is gone and hasn’t happened again and the plants look great!