Since I started gardening in 2021 I have never seen such a destructive disease on all the tomatoes I planted until this month. I am unsure if it is a type of "blight" or "mold" but when I did some research I am leaning toward the possibility of a blight infection on my tomatoes. I do not know how to respond to this, to be honest.
I wanted to buy some fungicide but I still can't go to the market. It is also a good thing that the store where I am buying garden products knows about plant diseases. The last time that I bought from the said store I just showed a picture of the infection and they gave me the right product to be used. As of now, the spread of the disease is slowing down and I am hoping that I can go to the market this week. Check out the images below.
My quickest remedy as of now is cutting the infected leaves. But then I forgot to sanitize the scissors that I used before using them in other tomatoes to prevent the further spread of the disease. In the gif image below I can be seen cutting the infected leaves. I also found out that cutting the infected leaves on fully grown tomatoes takes time as you have to consider not to cut the uninfected leaves.
To be exact I got seven tomato plants that got infected with the disease and cutting their infected leaves took me more than two hours. It took me that long because I have to be careful not to cut the healthy leaves and also not to cut the stem with healthy fruits. Check out the before and after images of one of my tomatoes.
I am a Computer Engineer, blogger, farmer, gardener, father, and husband. I love countryside living, nature, and farming (rice/vegetables), and I have two decades of experience as an I.T. professional
