Love my home grown tomatoes-can't beat the flaver,last year we didn't get hardly any- the plants got some yellow spots and got wilty, closest I can figure it was blight. Anyone know of a good cure? I got rid of the plants instead of the compost pile, supports too. Hoping for a better year!!

Toad, there are too many causes for 'mater problems to give a quicky answer.
This is a very good info resource:

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/imagemap/mgmaps/mgprob.html

Hope that this helps.

John/Ecologicals

great site- good info!! thanks, toad

Nowt. email me at ecologicals1@shaw.ca if you would like the detailed technical papers by Dr. Carolyn Male on tomater diseases. Hope she won't read this....

John / Eco etc.

Toad, one of the best ways to prevent diseases in tomatoes, Never plant in the same place two years in a row. Let the ground or bed lay out or plant legume or green crop in its place. Then the next year, you can go back with maters.
Also, never allow anyone that smokes or uses tobacco products around your tomatoes without first washing their hands, Tobacco mosaic virus can be spread from cigarettes, snuff, etc.
Hope this helps,

Bobby
Farmhound@att.net

The post preceeding this one, also made by me, made reference to information on blight/problems as written by Carolyn Male. An established expert, Carolyn provided such information on a Yahoo tomato user group, known as Tomatomania.

As member of that Yahoo group, I obviously have access to such information. Anyone joining the users group does. And I highly recommend that you do join there, as the promo on my own website links page states.

It has been brought to my attention that many people have taken offense to the poor attempt at humor, complete with emoticon, that I used in this post. It was not my intention to offend.

If I have a demonstrated "style" at all, it is to refer questions to url's where additional information is available. As I had/have no url for Dr. Male's info and since that info may be too technical or detailed to most readers here, I offered to email such info directly. No other reason.

I hereby do apologize to Carolyn for any misunderstandings or possible "misreadings" of my intentions.

As for my sense of humor, that too is subject to interpretation and clearly, may be misplaced here.

John H. Immink
Ecologicals