Food: Preventing blight in your garden tomatoes

By ROBERT KESSLER / Special to The Herald-Mail
July 7, 2009

This year's wet weather is causing many disease problems for gardeners. Since tomatoes are the most popular vegetable grown in gardens, we will mention what you should be doing to help prevent potential problems.

Tomatoes will get three major diseases in weather like this. Septoria leaf spot is a fungal disease that usually appears on the lower leaves of the plant and works its way up the plant. The affected leaves turn yellow and drop, reducing the plant's ability to produce food, which will reduce the production of tomatoes on the plant.

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