[Black Agnes]

I suggest visiting ‘tomatoville.com’, they have lots of suggestions for foliar diseases on tomatoes. Yellow leaves on MY maters usually means some form of early blight. Augh. Another learning experience I could very well have done without!

Here’s what I do:

Take 1 gallon water, exactly. Put it in a new (unusued for anything else) pump sprayer. Add 5oz exactly of the new Clorox bleach concentrate. Mix thoroughly. After sundown and the bees (if you’re lucky enough to have them this year) are gone home for the evening, spray the heck out of the tomato plants. They will look like hammered heck while every infected leaf goes ahead and dies. I follow up with a feeding of some sort. Any uninfected new growth will be fine. But this kills the fungus/whatever to prevent any NEW infection.

Try this with one tomato plant first.

Another thing that prevents transfer of soilborne diseases is to mulch with papers/hay or just hay. Anything to keep the soil from splashing up on the leaves when it rains.

[Black Agnes]

Here’s a link that might be useful:

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=28509&highlight=bleach

This old guys solution kept me from losing 75+ tomato plants last year. And umpteen 5gal buckets of good little canning tomatoes.

[greeneyes]

The first year I gardened, several of the NE companies had plants that developed blight. Unfortunately, I had some of those. I managed to get a decent yield, but I could have waited to learn about blight-it would not have hurt my feelings ya know?

Anyway, mulch with hay or newspapers does indeed help. I’ll have to try that bleach thing sometime-haven’t heard of it before.