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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Septoria Leaf Spot: What It Is And How To Fix It

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

You’ve noticed a disturbing trend. The lower leaves on your tomato plants have developed spotting. Some are turning yellow and are falling off. And it looks like it’s spreading. If this sounds familiar, you may have just discovered septoria leaf spot.

But while this is likely the most common tomato disease known to home gardeners, it’s fixable. It’s also not limited to tomatoes — it may pop up in many places you wouldn’t expect!

Let’s talk about what septoria fungi are, what they cause damage to, and how to treat it. You don’t have to watch your plants drop leaves until there’s none left… you can fix this!

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0:00.0

Hello, hello my tomato loving friends. You probably have dealt with this problem before. It's Kevin from Epic gardening. We're talking about

0:08.3

Septoria Leaf Spot, a really annoying

0:11.4

fungal disease that can decimate your tomatoes.

0:15.2

So a while back I put a little primer up on four different tomato diseases.

0:20.5

Early blight, powdery mildew,

0:22.6

Septoria Leaf Spot, and I believe anthrax or another one that I have now forgotten.

0:27.6

But regardless, Septoria was on the list and a lot of people were asking,

0:32.0

oh, that's what I'm dealing with with my tomato plan.

0:35.0

It's quite an identifiable fungal disease

0:38.0

and it really can decimate your tomatoes.

0:41.0

I mean, if you get it and you leave it unchecked you very much can just not have tomatoes that season which is quite depressing so

0:48.0

here we go. Let's go ahead and figure out how to deal with this fungal disease.

0:53.2

When we're dealing with a pest or disease,

0:55.0

it's very important to remember

0:56.2

we're dealing with an organism.

0:57.6

It's something that's actually alive

0:59.6

that is parasitic to some degree on the plant that we want to survive.

1:03.7

So we have fungal spores.

1:06.2

The septoria fungal spores can linger and survive

1:09.3

in infected plant debris on your soil surface. The fruiting bodies or

1:14.0

Peknyia, I believe you is how it's pronounced. They can also be buried in the

1:18.8

soil itself and they can lie in weight and they can even overwinter on nearby weeds, which is why I highly

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