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I felt like I was the only fustrated gardener. Thanks for this video

I was convinced that my tomato plant had early blight so I just sprayed a copper fungicide. Now you’ve taught me it’s actually brown leaf spot. I’m glad the treatment is the same!

Good day Gary !! thanks for sharing this information and advice on how to identify and treatment for differnt Tomato plant diseases !! thanks for sharing your knowledge and experiences and as always happy gardening !!

Very valuable video. Thank you for sharing the various challenges tomatoes can face and how to best deal with them. You're the best!!

I remember this video when you posted it. Thanks always for showing how we can rescue from blight disease

Thanks Gary for all the information you share

just subscribed not just because you have good vids but the reply in every comment. means a lot,

First time gardener, tomatoes are starting to come in and I'm excited. Thanks for all your help! Sorry to see your fungus problems

Thank you for sharing your experience!

The last two years I have had a big garden. While I love it, it really does tie me down in July and August and my family is upset because I had to duck out of vacations with them because of the garden, so I may have to cut back. I found that the early garden is my favorite, the greens, radishes, and stick onions.

I used your suggestion of baking soda spray and I see really no signs of blight on mine, I'm in south east Virginia. I really enjoy your videos and have learned a lot from you.

Gary, great channel. I was going back through all your 2016 videos and the playlist ends in October with the grow light video. I think there are a bunch of videos missing from the rest of the year.

This is d best garden chanel on you tube

Hi, Gary. Really enjoy your videos. Early blight is always a problem here in Indiana, too. My mortgage lifters and San Marzano have it bad. No blossom end rot, though. I'm going to experiment next year with the rain gutter/grow bags system under my covered patio (it's really a pergola we covered with clear corrugated, so sun gets through, but rain doesn't. My husband loves sitting out there when it's raining). Anyway, hoping we can avoid early blight and splitting.

Excellent and informative video - thank you!

thanks for your videos, they have filled in a lot of my knowledge gaps. the zuccinni and squash video you recently posted was perfect timing, as we started having a few different issues with our plants.

Thanks Gary! Good information!

Good video, very good information! Folks, here’s my experience. if you already have blossom-end rot in your tomatoes, or better still, BEFORE IT HAPPENS, simply dilute cows milk (any milk, 1%, 2%, 3 weeks old, totally spoiled, half price, rotten, doesn’t matter) and sprinkle it all over the plant with a watering can and then saturate the root area. The effect is virtually instant, is ‘organic’ (whatever that means), and will stop BER completely - UNLESS YOU’VE WAITED TOO LONG (more than a couple of days) until the condition is endemic, ie, has spread through the entire plant. I’ve also used human calcium supplements crushed and dissolved in water but this is a bit expensive and was only used the first time I experienced the issue when I panicked a bit. Did it work? YES! Is it organic? Who cares - if it’s good enough for me, it’s good enough for my tomatoes. In any case, I’m pretty sure these things don’t drop out of the backend of a cow but it got me a truckload of tomatoes that year. Survival of the smartest. As for early blight, the baking soda - dish detergent - vinegar - blah, blah - whatever stuff DOESN’T WORK!! DONT WASTE YOUR TIME or your baking soda…use it to make muffins. The ONLY cure for early leaf mould, in my experience, is cooler less humid weather. For late blight it doesn’t matter, your plants are going to die in 2 weeks anyway. Pick everything you can get that’s ripe and turn the rest into hotdog relish. And finally, DON’T KILL SQUASH/CUCUMBER BEETLES!!! During years when there is a low bee population, they’re about the only thing pollinating your cucurbits - they’re the very reason you have more zucchinis than friends. In my humble many-season experience, they spend most of their time inside squash blossoms and cause NO damage to the plants. If you have a total infestation it might be different but that’s not been my experience. Anyway, that’s it. Happy gardening.

Hi, like your videos. I always put an egg into base of tomato to stop this. I also use pond water every day. I don't have this problem.

Thank you so much, Gary!! I needed this!

I believe I have these problems solved...I used to deal w/ early blight and leaf spot every year which seriously limited my harvest and shortened my season. This year, I built proper 4x8 beds with deep soil. I use no chemicals other than one or two early rounds or organic fertilizer until the plants are well established. Nothing once blossoms appear. Collected rain water when I have it... I also decreased my watering to once per week. Let your plants tell you when they want water. I feel the soil hand at a depth of 4-6 inches and if it's still moist, no watering. I started pruning any affected leaves at very first sign of problems. I keep an eye on the area I pruned and if I see more blight or spots, I prune the entire branch with scissors. I grow San Marzanos and other heirloom paste varieties which have no resistance and are very susceptible to these problems. As the plant gets bigger, I prune the entire lower branches at the stem at least 12 to 16 inches from the ground. I now have a full 2 feet from the ground with no leaves or branches because I pruned them as they grew. This prevents any spatter during watering. I put cheap walmart box fans at one end of my beds at the ground level which I use to ventilate the lower parts of the plants often...especially after watering or rains. I duct tape plastic garbage bags on the tops of the fans to protect them from rain. They are gong strong. It's now August. I have 70+ plants at 6-8 feet each. No disease, no yellow leaves, no spots and heavy production of perfect tomatoes. They are thriving. I also bought 16' cattle panels from tractor supply and bent them in half making A-frame type trellises. They are an easy method to keep your tomatoes growing upward with strong structure. You will have them forever. These also provide the ability to protect your plants w/ plastic tarps during prolonged rains and heavy winds. This forms a makeshift greenhouse when needed which can be easily rolled up and tied at the tops or removed. I had a short bout with Blossom End Rot in a few tomatoes but sprayed a healthy dose of dissolved Tums onto the leaves, stems and extra roots growing out of the stems. The BEM are all gone. Harvest will be heavy and beautiful. I will invest in soaker hoses or better irrigation next season and probably put black or red plastic down over the soil. Azomite was also added to my soil this year and the plants are phenomal. The taste is much better than past years.

Thank you thank you thank you I'm sorry you had this problem but I'm glad you shared it with us. I'm new at gardening so it's hard for me to tell different diseases and natural end of plant life. I use both the products you mentioned. The first yr I did use the actinovate the problem with it is that it cost a 25$ to 35$ and the shelf life isn't very long and I'm on a budget I'm disabled so it really helps that you mentioned the products that I'm using. I'm not gonna lie the actinovate seems to be a very good product. Mostly I never know if I should just pull the plant so by the end of the yr only my cherry tomatoes be still going I havent had a really big tomato plant that last to the end of the yr and it may have been I just pulled it hoping to keep down disease. But once again thank you for sharing. So if I get early blight in my container plants I can re use that soil late blight I cant how can I tell the difference between late blight and early? I'm so glad to have found you been with you since I started and learned alot God bless

Looks like my Huge Lemon Oxheart plants. Marglobe's next row are perfect Gary. Marglobe's were listed as disease resistant and they lived up to their reputation. Fought this blight last 18 years, only grow Marglobes from here on.

Thank you!

Great documentation

I attempted to fight a bad outbreak of septoria leaf spot on my tomatoes and downy mildew on my cucumbers, but sadly I think I was too late. By the time I sprayed almost all leaves had had brown spots (within a couple days of the first sign). The serenade I used fought it off for a week or so, but it was already established in the plant and mostly all the leaves have died off and the fruit has rotted from the leaf spot! Same thing with downy mildew....It's amazing how quickly these diseases get going! Great video, Gary.

Great video! Thanks!

what do you do with the soil in the pots of the plants that have diseases? I have a tomato plant that died from the top down in a 25 gallon grow bag can you reuse that soil?

There is a brown but that keeps coming to my tomatoes and I can't get rid of it. Should I be getting rid of it?

Excellent video

Best advice yet! I started my garden just by watching your videos! Keep up the good work

Going through all your videos because I’m in NE North Carolina and already seeing leaf spot on the bottom leaves.We’ve had tons of rain the last 4 days and lots of humidity. I moved here from Oregon last year and built raised beds. My tomatoes were wiped out last year by leaf spot and early blight. Did my second spray of the year with Serenade. Trying to stay on top of it and now will spray every 7days with the Serenade. If it continues should I switch to Daconil?I’d like to keep things organic but I sure don’t want a repeat of last year. Thanks for all the informative videos. Since Maryland is somewhat similar humidity wise I appreciate your input.

My first tomato plant and pretty sure I killed it. I’m so used to plants that don’t need so much watering I was afraid of root rot so I didn’t water my tomato plant enough. But as a result I’ve got blossom end rot and the leaves are mostly yellow and wilting. Is it done for or should I try the lime wash method? Love your videos, thanks

Gary - love all your videos, they’ve been super helpful for this newbie gardener! My tomato fruits have developed small black spots all over the fruit. This doesn’t look like blossom end rot. The leaves look healthy. I’m in zone 6B in eastern PA, so have similar hot and humid conditions as you do. Would you be able to shed some light on this disease, and the remedy please? Thank you!

Another good, informational video, Gary. I was hoping to paste a photo I just took a few hours ago. my neighbor's tomatoes were ravaged on the top and I couldn't find the worm. But I happened to find the culprit today in my own garden. Big BIG sucker!! he didn't have the white wasp eggs on him so he suffered under the blade of my shovel.

Like your videos very helpful it would be nice if you could zoom in on plants showing signs of dieases just a observation .

I only have sun in the front yard, but I always put some toms in the back yard where there is a bit of sun. it is near the a/c and these plants almost never get blight. it takes longer to get fruit but they usually do reasonable well if the raccoons don't get the fruit first.

good video as always~

Thanks for the video! What does normal aging/dying leaves look like-on a tomatoe? cheers

Here in California we have leaf curl early BLIGHT and leaf spot. Along with the infamous insatiable red horned tomato worm it's a consstant battle oh and white fly along with aphids it's a nightmare. I've given up if you want tomatoes to grow here in my zone southern California near the beach you almost darn near have to hire a security guard to take graveyard shift. Beetles too Japanese beetles also. I threw the towel in two years ago because we lost our trees lemon and our Calamense tree. Now my roses are constantly battling molds and leaf spot leaf curl on roses it's awful I feel like just ripping everything out and concreting the entire front and back yard. We had neighbors move in that didn't care for their yards and once every six months the hired some gardeners to come chop down their overgrown weed sanctuary so when they were done chopping and mowing yes mowing the weeds they used their blowers to blow their devastating seeds into everyone's yards well needless to say my once pristine lawn and flower beds overwhelmed by DISEASES weeds parasites and every INSECT and aggressive forever weed virus bacteria and funguses totally wiped out my beautiful Zen garden...THIS once was my get away my passion my love my joy...Now it looks like a hillbilly or ghetto lost fo rotten neglected mish mash of ugly brown rust and every bit of green quickly jumped and mugged into turning brown rust yellow spotted black brown or covered in gray powder mold or white webs or CURLED up succumbing to the attacks of one aggressive invasion after another. I am so bummed out. My neighbor behind us has not given up but his tomato plants spill over into our yards and we gladly prune and care for the blossoms he says are for us knowing how saddened we are by this overwhelming series of non stop destruction..and suddenly we see the rotted bottoms of the tomatoes we thought it was the heat so close to the garden cinder block wall but no indeed it is calcium deficiency as you said. SO sad it also is showing signs of leaf spot and BLIGHT. Gotta let him knokw about seranade...question for you, IF WE SPRAY SERANADE IS IT ADVISED TO REMOVE ANY TOMATOES GREEN OR NOT PRIOR TO SPRAYING OR APPLYING SERANADE? and thank you for making this great video. From your fans in cazlifornia the setzers.🍅🌐✌🏼

Your timing always impeccable lol. So Gary I noticed mmm think last yr. U talked about just baking soda, water and few drops of dawn. (Which I'm using) This yr you added the aspirin. Have u noticed big difference since adding it? As much as I'm a native plant enthusiasts. I don't love crab grass grrr. Should I be laying hay around some things and mulch around others? What kind of mulch also? I laid some hay on my squash vines (side garden). And there doing really good. No signs of bugs so far. But the Borers got to two others in back garden :-/ Finally no rain for 2 days whew.

enjoyed your video

Got the same problems in Australia. The yellow leaf spot is so effective at killing my growth off. It seems like unless you have an impeccably clean site with a breeze, drip fed and under cover you are going to get problems with most of your plants and can't do the whole 100% organic thing. First year I didn't have a problem really, I planted tomatoes, never pruned them and overhead watered them all season without disease but now I'm paranoid as hell.

Hoping someone could give some insight on a problem Ive had with domingo tomatoes. I have grown over 2 lbs of this type but I also sometimes get a plant that kicks out a bunch small toms that are shape and size of roma tomatoes. I end up just jerking those out of the ground.??

Thanks

My tomatoes were doing SO well around 4th of July, then by August almost all of them had this blight, and they look exactly like the one you showed with the brown leaves. I gave them plenty of water, so I'm assuming it's a calcium problem. This happened two years in a row. Too late now (Sept) but next year I gotta try the lime. Thanks for this video!

Thank you

How do you mix baking soda, with water or just sprinkle it on, or what? would pine needles be okay to use for mulch(I have pine trees everywhere) around the tomato plant? how often should I water my tomato? it's in a container. I just found you, I love your videos they're so helpful and I need your help, thank you so much.

Look like fungus is in soil already! I wish to know , how to treat soil from fungus . Thank you for video !

Hello, This is Ellie from Canada. First thank you for the helpful video. Second, my problem is that my tomamto plant has no tomatoes after 2 months. What should I do?

I wonder if you could crush up dried egg shells in a mortar and pestle, then treat it with a tablespoon of white vinegar to make the calcium more readily available for immediate use in the garden to treat BER? I would love to hear your opinion or demonstration of this.

Did I hear you say you are in Maryland? Same I’m just starting to struggle with this stuff on the bottom of my plants I’m sure under watering was a part of it I did spray it and just waiting for an outcome now

Hi Gary, When it rains quite a bit, what is the spray you like to use? It think you said baking soda mix? What are you other favorite spray mixes? TY for everything

The tops of my tomato plants are turning yellow and the yellow is moving downward. No bugs, no spots, no mildew. What is this and how can I fix it?

I am looking for the long video that has an index for specific issues of the tomato problems.I think it was taped this year. I cannot find it again after using it most of the spring and summer.Please give me the name of the long video. Thanks in advance. from a computer challenged gardener.

I though that too, but the small spots does not match any pics from the diseases. I try neem oil with a little soap but all went even worst, then i cut all the trees but the stems started to die out...very frustrating. The roots seemed good, no issues there...

Hey Gary, love your channel. I'm growing roma tomatoes and they starting getting BER on both green and red toms. After a generous addition of lime, the BER was reduced, but it still appears on ripening toms. I've never seen so much BER on any other plants, even with the liberal use of lime. Anything I can do, or do roma tomatoes just get BER no matter what? Thanks!

question...my tomato plants had a lot of flowers, fruit setting and then the leafs started to wilt and have some tinny yellow dots all over, which i started to cut down just in case, but all of the sudden the plant started to die...what is it? I use fish solution, kelp and some blood meal. My plants are in pots.

my trouble is that I plant through plastic mulch. That makes it hard to sprinkle lime or gypsum around the plant. I need a liguid calcium that can be ran through my fertilizer injection and through the drip tape that's under the mulch. I don't know of such a fertilizer. Do you?

how frequently do we need to do the baking soda foliar spray...i have been removing 3-4 bottom brown leaves every day. My 1st ever tomato plant with many small tomatoes..Im hoping I help them

Hi Gary.. can I use the peroxide to combat powdery mildew as well? I'm going to try this on my tomatoes as well. Early blight is getting me here in GA too. ARGH! My tomatoes looked great until the last week. (:-( Thanks! ~Lisa

Gary you mentioned that roma tomatoes are prone to BER . I read the same about San Marzano . Why is that?

Hi Gary my jalapenos top are starting to grow deformed and scorch leaves ....no pest found does it need lime,fertilizer it has fruit and buds,flowers growing but top leaves are curled and wrinkley deformed ...

I find myself wondering about those sick plants and can a grower clean-up the soil in those pots to insure it doesn't happen again?

I just started tomato growing for the first time but naively put them in pots with questionable soil and now they’re diseased. Would you suggest taking them out and cleaning the roots with hydrogen peroxide and essentially starting over with my plants? Or would that cause too much stress for my tomatoes?

Organic gardening Early blight is hard to avoid, they are killing my plants, still fruiting and ripening been spraying neem oil and soap on them to kind of slow the spread. Wet hot summer.

How do you know if your tomato plants are determinate or indeterminate? My tags don't tell me.

Hey Gary, how many stems do you usually let grow for the cherry tomatoes?

Hey, my tomato plants have been really healthy, until about 3 weeks ago when it stopped raining every couple of days. I didn't water them much after the rain stopped, and BER started. I thought it was a watering issue, so I am watering them everyday, but its worse and the bottom leaves are turning yellow. Any help?

Super sad.. I'm a first time grower and everything was handy dandy, then literally after I watched this video yesterday, I went home, to my roof, and looked at my plants and BAM! Blossom rot.. :'( I had removed about 8 of all different sizes. Some big and looked like they were ready to turn red. I feel defeated. I have many good looking ones still.. But I'm scared I haven't even gotten to harvest any yet. I purchased your Nitrogen and calcium mix yesterday and also some gypsum.. I hope I can save my plant. I really wanted to succeed.

Can I use egg shells for calcium?

my tomato plants are turning yellow and then crispy brown and falling off entirely. i don't see wilt in the branches I am breaking off in the center (browning). Bsoda not seeming to do the trick either. Im in CA zone 9(a). Not humid and about 89 right now in October. Cherry tomato just not able to keep up. this year was disastrous on yields. Heat over 90 and got a 121 day and just ravished production. 40 plants and lucky if i had 10 tomatoes and only 2 squash. I digress. Any tips on what the browning is other than wilt to cause the leaves to turn crispy and fall off (completely wilted). they don't really got soggy, more like from a yellow to a dark brown crispy.

What causes holes in tomato leaves high up on the plant? Can slugs/snails climb that high?

Love to have your email to talk to you more about tomatoes and peppers

Gary, do you and answer questions on here about tomatoes?

Have you tried Neem oil and dish soap in warm water?

Hi Gary, what are white diffused spots on the tomatoes themselves?

The stems of my tomato plant are turning white and fuzzy(looks moldy). Is it safe to eat the tomatoes?

How much soda to water ? Did i miss it ?

Hi I'm in Nigeria and I started harvesting at December but early this month the stems started drying off while the roots looked ok. I've been spraying antifungal but no improvement, the fruits are not so big as they use to be. I'm thinking of trying the backing soda. What do you think? I'm really desperate

My tomato leaves have a big brown spot in the middle, which disease is that? And the leaves at the top of the tomatoes aswell as the "corners" has become light brown, and i cant for the life of me find out what it means!

Gypsum will not lower the pH I don't know

Hello Gary, going to pull my tomato plant out but could I put another plant in pot (tomato or something else. Or do I need to trow soil out

Can I dissolve TUMS in water and give it to the plants as a source of calcium?

Gary, I decided to experiment this year with determinate and indeterminate varieties this year...I used starter plants from Lowes and Depot and put them in large containers. However, they ended up all tanking!..leaves turned brown, yellow and died! Need help!.... I bought more, but can't figure out the problem...Im in south Texas (San Antonio)

My tomatoes have what looks like roots growing out of the main stem. Is it a disease?

would a copper mixture get rid of the diseases?

Throw in some egg shells. Slow release natural form of calcium. Crush them up and toss them in before transplanting. Prevents blossom rot.

Respectfuly submitted question--------you`ve many prevention of diseases,mildew mold ,fungus videos, yet, these issues still affect your plants,?? ? ?

Now I feel bad cause I thought I had early blight that was going to spread in my garden so I ripped out the plant... now I see it was maybe just lead spotting. Didn’t try the baking soda method. I got 2 new tomato plants(Bonnie plants) that are beefmaster hybrid and better boy hybrids.... they already have lead spotting! I will plant these separately in their own area in my garden... I just don’t get how these plants start getting problem right away

when is it safe to use the fertilizers after the transplant?

Someone said if you cut out the BER on the tomato, it is still edible and tastes fine. Is that true?

I need the names of the stuff you use on your tomatoes when you have that problem with the the tomatoes plants can you help me i don't remember what you said about the names

Crush 2 tums tablets in 1 gallon of water and water in to the roots. Great way to get calcium to the plant!

Welp. My plants are screwed. Thanks for the video tho.

Can you use CA/MG liquid ?? Thanks

I’ve heard you should replace your soil if you get blight, is this true?

I used to sell thousands of starts in the spring. If you give tomato starts calcium at the very beginning they will not develop blossom end rot. Blight is a different animal.

What is the zip code what you are talking about because when you google Ruffner Mountain you will get a zip code of Birmingham not Trussville.