If organic is not a priority, you can use a product safe for edibles like Daconil Fungicide. Organic gardeners can look at a fungicide that has copper for its main ingredient such as Liquid Copper Fungicide from Bonide. Spores from early leaf blight can survive in the soil for years removing all infected tissue from the area is most important.Īfter you have discarded infected plant material, choose your weapon. Be sure to scour the soil around the plant and remove any fallen leaves there as well. Pinch or prune them off and throw them in a bag to dispose of them immediately.
So, watch out!įirst step is to remove as many of the damaged leaves as possible. It’s also good to note that while this disease has “early” in it’s name, it can attack your tomatoes at any stage of its growth. Early detection is crucial to controlling this disease, as it really is a quick spreader. Sounds pretty grim, right? The good news is that early leaf blight can be controlled AND even better (know that you know about it) can be prevented. This disease can affect your tomato plant at any stage of growth. Early leaf blight weakens the plant and reduces the size and the quality of fruit. It just greedily moves up the plant to claim more foliage, and even attacks the stems and eventually fruit (if you let it get that far). Unfortunately the disease doesn’t die with it. As the foliar disease progresses, the affected leaves then take on a leathery-shriveled appearance and begin to wither and die. The areas surrounding the blotches usually start to turn yellow. If you look closely at the center of the spots on your plant, you may see a concentric pattern, like a bulls eye. As you can see in the above pic, it starts off kind of small and inconspicuous, but will quickly grow into a bigger problem (featured pic). Brownish/black splotches start to appear on the leaves closest to the soil.
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