yavn

Just curious -- are both of the pictures you've posted from the same plant?

I have a flower garden home, but i grow tomatoes at a community garden. Most of the growers had the same disease (anthracnose); we never had that kind of tomato disease in the past. The weather was particularly sunny and warm this year. I was wondering if i should grow tomatoes again next year at this community garden.

Thanks again.

yvan in Rimouski QC, Canada

The "fix" is to harvest when the fruit are full-colored but not dead ripe. Also, be certain that you remove all crop refuse -- namely, old vines and dropped tomatoes.

It's very hard to escape anthracnose b'c the spores are in the environment all the time.

I usually see it near the end of the season when the night temps have started to drop and there are heavy morning dews.

If you want to be aggressive about it, which few are, you can use a good antifungal spray such as Ortho Garden Disease Control, aka Daconil, which will help.

Carolyn