What's up my little tomatoes?

Kevin here from Epic Gardening.

We're talking about some problems that you might run into

as a tomato or as you're growing tomatoes. I don't know what's

going wrong with me today but I'm feeling loopy. We're talking about it. Let's go.

Blights. Blights just hit tomatoes like they're hot.

Blights are one of the most common fungal diseases

that you will experience on your tomato.

Early Blight, that's probably the most common one. It will survive through the winter and it will smack your

plants upside the head. You'll know you have it when you see a blackish-brownish spot on your leaves or you see fruit that looks kind of sunburned.

Not on the bottom, that's a different thing, on the top.

So it's just a good idea to clean up your tomatoes, dispose of them in the right place, maybe work them

through your compost pile, feed them to your worms, whatever the case may be, but that's

early blight.

Now late blight, you have a water soaked spot that then turns brown and

kind of papery and it will destroy leaves very quickly so it will show up

generally if you have a lot of rain and that kind of

spreads the spores around and then they make their way through those tomato leaves

like crazy. Blossom and draw it. This one's very common. It sounds like a deadly, deadly disease.

It's really not so much a disease as it is a physiological condition of the plant.

It's a lack of calcium transport to the fruit. The reason why that's

happening is typically not because there's not calcium in the soil but it's more

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