Your tomato plant has finally set green fruit, and you can just imagine how delicious those home-grown tomatoes will be. But suddenly, some leaves turn deep brown, there are dark blotches on stems ...

Late blight: How to deal with the scourge that ruined your tomatoes. Published: ; Oct. 15, 2009, 7:28 p.m.

Late blight is one of the most devastating diseases of potato and tomato worldwide. It was responsible for the devastating Irish potato famine of the 1840s and has continued to ...

Tomatoes are one of the most commonly grown vegetables in home gardens. While tomatoes are relatively easy to grow, there are ...

Many gardeners will remember the late blight attack on tomatoes in 2009. Relatively unknown in our area, the blight thrived in our cool, wet spring and summer. Well, this summer seems to be another… ...

If you suspect that you planted your tomato plants too close together, Weiss says that the first and foremost damaging sign ...

Late blight, she said, comes from a fungus called Phytophthora infestans that originates in potato tubers, and can spread to tomatoes if the conditions are right. The fungus is actually what ...

How to prevent Late Blight in tomato plants. The best way to prevent Late Blight is to water tomato plants in the morning so the plant dries quickly to minimise the risk of disease.

Late-blight spore counts dropped sharply over the past week and there are still no confirmed cases in Maine,” Extension scientists said.

Cultivated tomato species are typically more susceptible to disease than wild species, but prepare to meet a cultivar that's actually resistant to cracking, early and late blight, and Fusarium ...