Tomato Diseases

While I was at the garden yesterday, I was approached by two gardeners who were concerned about an apparent tomato disease affecting many of the tomato plants in the garden. When we took a closer look, many of the tomato plants in the centre and side closest to the river have shriveled black leaves. I have been doing some research to figure out what is going on and I believe it is early tomato blight.

I have included a few links here so that you may try to diagnose the problem on your plant. I hope this helps. It appears to not be affecting, as severely, the tomato plants towards the back of the garden (closer to Oliver Road), but I will keep an eye on it. Please keep me posted as this develops. The first link provides information on how to treat this disease (in an organic garden).

http://organicgardening.about.com/b/2009/07/05/diagnosing-tomato-diseases-is-it-early-blight-late-blight-or-septoria.htm

http://www.google.ca/images?q=early+blight+on+tomatoes&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7GPEA_en&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=_IRNTNCvIsTYnAeS7ozZCw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDgQsAQwAw

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/tomato.html

Hope these help! More information coming soon!