Tomatoes are usually the best part of many backyard gardens, but if you’ve ever tried growing them, you know they come with their own challenges. One of the biggest headaches for growers is early ...

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 ...

Several seasons back, Jeff McCormack, Ph.D., founder of Garden Medicinals and Culinaries and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, shared a tomato pruning method with me that delays the onset of early ...

There is an issue occurring now in home gardens that may need your attention, called early blight of tomato. Early blight of tomato has been seen on the variety called Big Boy but is probably on ...

Early blight in tomato plants can be a major problem for gardeners. Here’s how to keep plants healthy and growing strong.

Tomatoes used to be one of the easier home-garden crops to grow. Lately, though, erratic weather, increasing diseases such as early blight and septoria leaf spot, and even the arrival of the pesky ...

“In all my years growing tomatoes, I’ve never seen a worse year,” gardeners tell me every so often. I hope this isn’t your worst year. Either way, there are reasons why it’s been tough. Disease or ...

Joe C. wrote and asked about early blight on tomatoes. He was particularly interested in its life cycle and whether it overwintered in our area. This is a great question, and one I'm sure all of us ...

Q: I and many others had a terrible tomato season because of early blight. Are there any tomatoes that are resistant to blight? Is there any successful treatment? Conversely, I have several volunteer ...

Growers are nervous this summer as they hope late blight won't resurface in the North Country. The disease devastated tomato and potato crops... Jun 28, 2010 — Growers are nervous this summer as they ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Early April is the time to finally start tomato seeds indoors. When you’re choosing what types of tomato to plant, consider this list of varieties that are known to be resistant ...

Early blight, caused by Alternaria solani, is a very common disease of potato and is found in most potato growing areas. The disease occurs over a wide range of climatic conditions and depends in a ...