blight on tomatoes

[wi_buff_farmer]

My tomatoes have yellowing leaves which i am told is early blight? anything i can do to save them? i have pulled the lower couple feet of leaves off

 

[gab]

I have it too and also have trimmed the leaves off, still got it. wish I would have left the cages off this year, they got bigger than ever this year and grew out the top of the cages, fell over and are breaking off.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

Did you put on N fertilizer? Never use N on tomatoes or Green Peppers it'll make all vine and poor fruit.

 

[wally_mi]

i have a spray tat i put on the ground a year ago. so fqar no blight. wally

 

[dwag]

We put a table spoon of Epsom Salts below tomato plant when planting. Later if Blight shows up, cut off affected leaves/branches and water with diluted Epsom Salts on plant.

 

[Cory Schmidt]

I think we used a baking soda solution once.
Don't recall what it did.

 

[Hobo,NC]

I think folks confuse bright with the normal loss of leaves after the plant starts to bear fruit and its picked... As it bears fruit were the fruit was it will never bear again the plant sheds those leaves.. It will not put its energy into a leave that will not produce fruit again...

I compare it much to a tobacco plant as the plant matures it sheds the leaves, as it matures the plant puts its energy into new growth.. I don't worry about what it sheds as long as I have harvested the fruit in that area. I look at were the fruit is still maturing...

 

[Robin Hood]

I think chlorothalonil (Bravo) is labeled for both early and late blight. It is however, only a contact fungicide. Check out the label for Previcur Flex, which is a systemic.