Tomato diseases

Tomato — 9 diseases with symptoms, causes and treatment.

• Bacterial spot on tomatoes — symptoms and treatment medium

  Small dark raised spots on tomato leaves and stems, water-soaked fruit lesions and early leaf drop? Bacterial spot — pictures, causes and treatment options.

• Early blight on tomatoes — symptoms and treatment medium

  Dark brown target-ring lesions on lowest tomato leaves, with stem lesions and rot at the stem end? Identify Early blight with pictures, causes and treatment.

• Late blight on tomatoes — symptoms and treatment high

  Large water-soaked grey-green patches and white fuzzy growth under tomato leaves, collapsing fast? Identify Late blight with pictures, causes and treatment.

• Leaf mold on tomatoes — symptoms and treatment medium

  Pale yellow blotches on upper tomato leaves with olive-green velvety mould underneath, usually in a greenhouse? Leaf mold pictures, causes and treatment.

• Septoria leaf spot on tomatoes — symptoms and treatment medium

  Dozens of small round spots with grey centres, dark borders and tiny black dots on lower tomato leaves? Septoria leaf spot pictures, causes and treatment.

• Target spot on tomatoes — symptoms and treatment medium

  Brown lesions ringed like a target on tomato leaves, worst low down, with fruit spots near the stem end? Identify Target spot with pictures and treatment.

• Tomato mosaic virus — symptoms and treatment high

  Light and dark green mottling on tomato leaves, distorted curling foliage and small fruit with internal browning? ToMV pictures, causes and treatment.

• Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) — symptoms and treatment high

  Tomato leaf margins curling upward and yellowing, plants stunted and bushy with poor fruit set? TYLCV pictures, causes and whitefly control treatment.

• Two-spotted spider mite on tomatoes — symptoms and treatment medium

  Fine pale stippling, bronzed leaves and delicate webbing on tomato leaf undersides? Identify Two-spotted spider mite with pictures, causes and treatment.