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 ...

Tomato blight is a catch-all term for a group of serious fungal infections that affect the production and quality of fruit. The fungi attack tomatoes in different ways at different times, with ...

Tomatoes were piled high at the New Morning Farm stand at the Dupont Circle farmers market. Just as they should be in mid-August. But for Jim Crawford, this is not the peak of tomato season; it is ...

The first answer is to make sure you are rotating where you grow crops by using a three-year cycle. For Mary, she just doesn’t have the space for this so we move on to other options. Perhaps the most ...

Alan warns in his September pests and diseases section: “Check tomatoes for signs of blight. In warm, wet weather an attack can kill off a whole crop very quickly and infected crops must be destroyed.

Tomatoes are generally easy to cultivate and require minimal maintenance, but gardeners must pay close attention to their leaves. April's warm yet damp weather creates ideal conditions for a highly ...

Tomatoes are a hot commodity and among the simplest crops to cultivate. However, even with disease-resistant varieties, blight can pose a significant challenge. Blight is a fungal disease that spreads ...

In an ordinary season, John Holbrook would have all his tomato plants in the ground at Holbrook Farm in Bethel. This year, he started moving them out in mid-June. It was too cold and rainy to expose ...

Beale hasn't seen late blight in Southern Maryland so far this year, though he has heard reports of it in Prince George's County. He thinks recent hot, dry weather has stopped the disease in its ...

For the third year in a row, late blight disease has been detected early in the season on Long Island. This time, it's been found on tomato crops on the South Fork. Late blight is the disease that was ...