You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover

everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required.

And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner,

Joe Lample.

Hi everybody, this is Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe

Gardner Show.

Well, now that we are in the height of vegetable gardening season, we're in July now.

Hopefully you've got a garden growing and it's thriving, and you've got some tomatoes

mixed in with some other things.

But for many of us, we struggle with tomatoes maybe more than anything else in our edible

garden.

They're very prone to diseases, especially depending on where you live.

If you're in a high heat and humidity, part of the country or the world, well, your

troubles might be a little more aggravating than those that are in the cooler, drier regions

and lucky for you if you are.

But today we're going to have kind of an annual update or that conversation on tomato diseases

primarily because they are so prominent and so aggravating for those of us who are trying

to do everything that we can to minimize or even prevent their presence in our garden

and yet in spite of all the things we do, they still show up uninvited.

And who wants that, right?

So today we're talking with Inga Meadows, Inga is the Extension Associate for Vegetable

in Urbacious Ornamental Pathology at NC State University.

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