How to Defeat Tomato Blight 

Short, clear and to-the-point! Excellent! Thank you!

I love how you explain things. Even though I know a bit about growing a garden and know there are different kinds of blight but you make it stick in my brain and the names of the blights and, well, you are just very good at explaining things.

Thank you, I live in Southern Illinois and have been getting early blight/septoria every year, I thought I was doing something wrong but I see now that the humidity is always going to be a problem for tomatoes here, at least I know how to extend the plants life now! Thanks!

Great video! Short, simple, to the point, and covers most of the material!

Thank you. Very informative. Personally, I found the background music to be annoying, unnecessary and distracting.

Thank you ! I love gardening, but when it comes to insects and diseases time after time I feel like giving up !

I got copper sulphate to treat my grapes, so now, I can do my tomatoes too! THANK YOU!

Thank you so much, Gary. Great information presented in an understandable and concise format. Much appreciated. God Bless!

One thing I found that kills the fungus in the soil is simple, cheap and non-toxic, “Cornmeal”. I live in the northwest and I put in a raised bed. When I planted tomato starts as well as other types of plants they would die within a few days. I researched it and found that there was a fungus in the soil, so I looked for something to treat it with, but I was told that it would have to run it’s course and may take about 3 years. I found something on the internet that said cornmeal would take care of it. So I mixed some into the soil and didn’t have a problem after that with blight or black spot. I also had a severe problem with powdery mildew and black spot on my roses. I mixed it into the soil around the base of the roses and didn’t have a problem after that.

Very very well presented and very helpful. Thanks.

Excellent video. Please continue posting. This video was concise and extremely informative. Thank you

Always fight the blight in The Smoky Mountains and glad to find your information. I came across an article from Univ of R I suggesting aspirin in the planting hole. I have done this for 10 years after my first encounter with late blight and total loss of the crop. I don’t know if it helps but I see the different tomato diseases needing an all out approach from leaf picking, plant spacing of 54”, cages, and fungicide application on a regular basis. I will add need oil and copper sulfate to my Arsenal. Thank you. Cant wait to see what you suggest for late blight prevention. Oh, I also take all tomato plant residue to a remote spot and keep it our of the compost .

Thank you so very much for your simple and easy to follow teaching. I live in Cape Breton Nova Scotia and need lots of advice for my tomatoes and fruit trees! I am a newbie to growing food

awesome, this is truly some of the best info I've seen on YT...all the conjured up remedies "this product and that" never fix anything...so listen to this fella!

I know what I need to do now. Thank you for posting this video👍

We have a major issue with tomato blight here in FL. Thank you, Gary.

I place cardboard around the base of the tomatoes to stop splash up I never wet the plant only the cardboard water soaks through too much water tomatoes split and the cardboard slows down this down

Very concise and to the point. Thanks

Wonderfully clear video. Thank you! Could you clarify how to use the combination of Neem Oil and Copper Sulphate - ratio and any details - for tomato leaf spot / blight.

Not one person talked about aspirin 325 mg non coated use 2 crushed up into a powder and a gallon of water. Stir i and mix it in a little warm water first. When I planted my tomatoes in my 5 gallon self watering system. I just watered the top of the soil so the aspirin water can get to the roots. Never had a problem. On the tomato leaves just use on 325 mg aspirin in a gallon and spray it on the leaves. Not on the middle of the day in sunshine. The I add calcium pellets to the soil as well when planting and this will take care of blossom end rot on type tomatoes. Good luck

thanks gary...hear in florida its a no stop fight. nothing works 100% but i keep trying

It's pretty bad here in Ga this year. Lots of rain, high humidity and high heat. I acted on a hunch and mixed about 3 tbsp of Dawn Ultra dish washing liquid in 2 gallons of water. Fully soaked my tomatoes and it has in fact halted the early blight. Also got rid of insects and apparently the deer aren't very fond of it either. II also use it on my other plants, cucumber, squash and on raspberry, blackberry and figs. It's doing a great job at keeping insects away and stopped all the deer munching on everything. Surely someone else has done this before? It certainly does seem to work great. No notice of ill effects on any of the plants. Just plain Dawn Ultra. The blue flavor, non anti-bacterial.

How can you get rid of it on the soil over the winter season when you're not growing?

Excellent video and most helpful. Thank you so much !

Thank you very much, exactly our issues in central fl.

I’m pleased I found this channel! Great information!

I have had a good season so far with blight only showing up on one tomato plant out of 10. Having them planted in individual containers is a big help in battling blight. After trying everything from 3% hydrogen peroxide to various blends suggested online, I finally found a way to almost stop the blight without having to treat that plant every couple of days. I decided to finally try some copper octanoate (Dr. Doom) fungicide. It just worked and it keeps on working...I did a spray of the top of the soil in the container and all of the plant, including a good drench of the stems and branches...

Seeing a video like this just proves to me we are being watched/listened to.... Not once did I search for anything tomatoe related. Time to remove youtube permissions. Unfortunately youtube is a built in app! Thanks for the tips though!

Very informative. Improved my knowledge and confidence. Thank you

Thanks so much for this educational video

Thanks for sharing God Bless All Good Americans

Great video. Very informative. Thank you.

Thank you brother Gary 👊🏻🙏🏼

Hi Gary. I am so impressed with this video - very informative & to the point! Thank you! Could you tells us the proportions for the organic solution of neem oil & the copper sulfate!

Thank you, Gary!!

Excellent video. The background noise, however, made it harder for me to understand.. I have hearing loss. Are you aware of watering using feeding tubes? They are just a 4' PVC cheapest pipe about 2" diameter you can get with an angle cut on the bottom. If you try to drive them in the soil, they will stop up. It is better to put them in the hole as you are planting the tomato plant. You will need to help support the top of the tube until you install support for the tomato plant. The leaves do not get wet using this. I water 2 quarts of miracle gro for tomatoes weekly until they begin blooming. I then switch to miracle gro bloom buster. It has less nitrogen for the plant but better supports fruiting. Get a funnel. I water 32 plants in about 30 minutes a week. I have a wagon to carry the buckets of water. I wish you well.

Thank you Gary

I didn’t catch the name of the first product you said that started with a D. Neem oil & copper sulfates? Where do I get this? I can catch it early, just started. Thanks for the great video.

This is very helpful. Thank you!

Great video ever! Thank you my brother.

Thanks good information

Thanks Gary..

Excellent.

Excellent video. Very helpful

Very informative. Thank You.

Thanks a lot! Very informative. 🍅🍅🍅

Excellent info! Thanks

How much copper sulfate n neem oil do you mix.

Thanks for your info.

Great video straight to the

Great info sir. Thank you.

The tops of my tomato plants are turning yellow and the yellow is moving downward. No bugs, no spots, no mildew. What is this and how can I fix it?

great video. Thanks

Great video!

Gary, does it make a difference if you spray the leaves in the morning or late afternoon? Thanks!

great video thank you

This gentleman is excellent.

Thank you

Great ,Thank you,,

Lol, Thank You sir! I will go to the other video, because I have late blight I believe?

Should I prune the leafs with spot before treating with neem oil? Thanks Gary

Can u suggest mixture volumes pls.

Thanks

Thanks 👍 good stuff

Thank you! ♥

Thanks!

Thank you very informative in a organized manner. It won’t help me tho I’ve been battling this disease for years now…..getting ready to quit soon.

I've always had this problem with tomatoes. It never got to bear fruits

Yep, that's my problem.

Sir what kind of variety

thanks gary, my cannabis plants got one or both of these. i will try the neem oil :)

A deer ate some of the plant and it started in that area then it spread to the hole crop

thank u love the info!

Should tomatoes b discarded if the plant leaf shows beginning signs of blight?

How to prevent that desease. Please send me that pesticide name

Well all you need is a neighbor like mine who is wicked to the core but they were not hear the judging him. call you it's been many years since I had a garden. and sure enough he quietly crossed over I saw him and sprayed my brand-new tomato plants. Well you know nowadays nobody takes your word for nothing that's compost you have to have video our pictures. I noticed some of my yard grass was turning brown.that will protect my postage stamp garden. Oh yes I used a lot of Epsom salt, because I have never had brown spot or blossom rot because I did that.

Some of this stuff is not doing anything. 55 yrs experience and I never have seen such problems. Weather not getting better. Worse. Good luck too everyone next year 2025

rains here for a month

Can anyone tell me if you can mix Neem oil and the copper sulfate together in one mix and spray?

I plant tomatoes with a plastic cover leave it on and after harvest remove the entire tomatoe plant and burn it

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Oh my goodness thank you you got right to the point I was sitting on a bucket in my garden and didn't want to have to watch a long RU-vid happen onto your channel thank you

Thank you

Thanks

The ladies at church are firm, “never put tomatoes to sleep with wet feet!” Water before noon, trim the infected leaves.

My tomatoes have the blight because of too much rain. I was able to removed the disease leaves early on so it slowed down the infection. The fruits started ripening but I am not going to have an abundant harvest because of the wet weather we are having. Your suggestion to removed the disease leaves was spot on. Thanks.

by far the best video on this topic; and the bit about distinguishing septoria leaf spot from early blight was perfect. you made it "click" for me. thank you!

Best way I’ve found to water tomatoes is cut the bottom out of a plastic pop bottle, remove the cap, and jam the neck into the soil by the base of the plant. Fill the bottle with water. If the soil is muddy and jams full the neck of the bottle, it will take maybe an hour for the water to drain out which I think is ideal. Do not wet the leaves if possible You can also wet sheets of newspaper and put them around the base of the plant to keep soil from splashing up and infecting the leaves during rainfall. You can use landscape cloth spikes to hold them down As the plant grows, I cut the leaves off the bottom 1/2 of the plant

Agree with other commenters. Good instructions for those who love their tomatoes!!

I get 200-300 tomatoes a year and thought I knew everything, but I still learned some things from this video. 👍

Thanks for the "spot on" info about my tomatoes this year. This year in W.V. it seems it is raining off and on each and every day and the humidity is killing me and my plants. I have never had such a horrible time growing tomatoes. Thanks again for the info.

I am growing WVU's septoria leaf spot and light blight resistant tomato cultivars Mountaineer Pride (a slicer) and Mountaineer Delight (a beefsteak) this year. They were developed by professors Mannon Gallegly and Mafuz Rahman just recently. So far, in north central West Virginia's humid summer, they are doing very well, carrying a full load of leaves and fruit. I gently pruned the plants, applied a mulch and staked them. The seed can be purchased at Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.

First year gardener and I found black spots all over my tomato plants already. This video was better than any article I found! Thank you so much!

Thorough and comprehensive, lacking verbiage, which makes a nice change from those professing to possess knowledge. A well earned new subscriber, incidently! Thanks for uploading.

I just discovered your channel today and I love your videos!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. I just discovered an interest in growing plants this year and it’s so helpful to find your answers here.

Subscribed! I've been gardening for quite a few years, but somethings you forget along the way. I'm dealing with blight right and have some neem oil. I'm watching this at 9:30 at night and want to get out there in the garden to apply some neem, but have to wait till morning. Thank you, for sharing the information, hope I can stop this blight.

I know it's an older video, but thank you for the info. I'm relatively new to growing tomatoes, and was wondering what was going on.

Helpful. Please share tip of how much Neem Oil and Copper Sulfate we should use. Is to mix with water ?

Hey Gary, Thanks for the info. There is a guy in Maryland, "The Rusted Garden", who has had great results with Hydro. Prox. h2o2. 8oz.ofh2o2 to a gallon of water he sprays to prevent and to stop the spread of all fungal diseases.

Can you spray neem oil on the fruits?