It's tomato time today addressing one of the most common questions I get and really anyone who with experience when growing tomatoes gets and that's hey what's going on I've got some yellow

leaves on my tomato plant well as with many things in life and the garden it

depends on many different things as to what could be causing that.

Let's address the simplest one.

If it's late in the season, that's just the tomato ending its life.

It's coming to the end, right? So you don't have to stress about it too much if you've already pulled a lot of tomatoes off,

you have some green ones left and the tomatoes are four to eight feet tall and it's starting to yellow a little bit

especially down towards the bottom that's kind of the natural cycle. Now if you've

just planted your tomatoes and you see yellow leaves that aren't curled up just a big old yellow leave that

works its way up the soil that's or sorry not the soil it works its way up the

plant that can signal a nitrogen deficiency.

That's the most common yellow leaf issue when it comes to a nutrient, and so the way to know that

would be to test your soil and see if you're low in nitrogen.

Now if you have leaves turning yellow or brown that's higher up on the plant

not going from bottom to top then that can be a blight issue.

And so you can see there's already three different distinct reasons

why a plant, specifically the tomato,

could be turning yellow. You have the nitrogen deficiency, you have the blight

issue or other diseases, and you have a late season issue where it's just

ending its life.

So again, I always encourage people,

you know, think a little bit deeper about some of these problems

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