Welcome back! Apparently my column last week on problems with tomatoes didn’t scare you off. Good. There is an old science fiction movie titled “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.” I am calling this “What ...

From containers to expansive garden plots, growing tomatoes is a popular and relatively easy way to harvest at least some of your own produce. In fact, tasty and easy-to-grow tomatoes are the most ...

Tomato plants wilt for many reasons—like lack of water or insects—so quick diagnosis is key to saving your garden. Most causes like fungal wilt, viruses, and black walnut toxicity have no cure, so ...

Most everyone who gardens grows tomatoes of one kind and color. Some like them red and some yellow, while others like them black and others like them orange. But one thing about growing tomatoes: most ...

AT A LOSS: Ms Milly Muwonge displays a tomato plant infected with bacterial wilt. The disease is most prevalent in tropical regions like Uganda. PHOTO BY JOSEPH MITI. Milly Muwonge looked on in ...

If your tomato plant has begun to wilt, yet still has green leaves, you may be dealing with a bacterial disease. An organism called Ralstonia solanacearum is the bacteria that infects tomato plants ...

Scions of potato, tobacco, nightshade, pepper, Physalis and tomato were grafted on tomato stock. These plants were inoculated with F. oxysporum f. lycopersici which is selectively pathogenic to tomato ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Feb., 1923), pp. 71-88 (22 pages) This paper deals with (1) the relation of soil temperature to the occurrence of the wilt of temate caused by Fusarium ...

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Welcome back! Apparently, my last article on problems with tomatoes didn’t scare you off. There is an old science fiction movie titled “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.” I am calling this article “What ...