I’m LeAura Alderson, a garden, herb and plant enthusiast with a passion for discovering the many edible and medicinal benefits of the plants all around us, including the weeds! I’m a writer, editor and media publisher for our family of websites. Fresh mulch helps nourish the soil and cover up fungus spores that could become airborne.įind more on this and other tomato plant diseases here. The right conditions encourage it so the best thing is to minimize the risk. For that, we keep an old 50 gallon drum in the garden for burning diseased or pest riddled plant parts.įungus spores are everywhere in the ground and air. Do not place infected parts into compost or mulch. Then spray the remaining healthy parts with the copper fungicide. Trim and prune away all infected parts of the plant. Whenever you have a large area to spray, we really like using the battery powered sprayer. But first, you need to remove all the infected parts. One of the best treatments for the Alternaria solani tomato fungus is copper fungicide. If you can catch tomato blight early, you can keep it from destroying your plants. We should’ve actually caught it earlier, instead of just pruning off the bad stems.īut in summer when you get so busy with everything in the garden growing and producing, it’s easy to overlook a needed pruning over an ailing plant. We just sprayed all of our affected plants. For this reason after this year of losses, we will avoid them. Unfortunately, heirloom varieties are not blight resistant. One of the most important things you can do to protect your plants against blight is to choose disease resistant varieties and avoid heirloom seeds. When it comes to disease resistant varieties, there’s much benefit in choosing newer disease resistant varieties of tomatoes. So when you’ve had conditions of lots of rain and lots of heat, be on the lookout for tomato blight early.īy knowing the conditions that are ripe for it, you can treat and mitigate against the damage of this fatal tomato fungus. The perfect environment for Alternaria solani is humidity and heat. This tomato blight is a fungal pathogen called Alternaria solani that infects stems, leaves and fruits of nightshades like tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant. You can find more on this and other tomato plant diseases here.
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