Beginner Gardening: Tomatoes get sick..., 1 by Brisbane_Bonnie

Brisbane_Bonnie wrote:
Hi there,

I think I might have a sick garden. Every time I plant tomatoes they end up growing well for a while, then the leaves start going yellow and eventually get crispy brown and dry up and fall off.

Here's a badly affected leaf (in the early stage of decay) on a plant only a month old or so.

This plant is only just starting to flower. Already on two of the branches the leaves are starting to go sickly. Does anyone know what this is? And why it always gets my poor tomatoes? This variety is organic beefsteak tomato grown from seed, but it also affected storebought seedlings, and wild cherry tomatoes. Usually I get some yield of tomatoes, but the sickness stunts the plants while there are plenty still unripe fruit. What a waste of tasty toms!!

Can you help? I've got a sick capsicum too if you've got any ideas it's on another thread in this forum...

PS. I'm loving this forum! Thanks for everyone's help!