Beginner Gardening: Tomato leaf peril help!, 1 by justabud

justabud wrote:
I am container gardening this year. So far everything is going fantastic. I have beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, peppers and scallions. I do have one issue, though. My patio tomato plant is suddenly having a problem. As you can see in the picture, the leaves have this brownish, copperish thing happening to them. If you rub your finger on the leaf, you get this sparkly, dirty-ish residue. I'm wondering if I over-dosed my poor plant with neem oil? None of my other plants are having issues, they're all green and producing wonderfully. Well, except for the cucumber plant, while thriving, I've noticed black ants on it. I've read not to worry about ants on cukes. I hope that's correct...

Anyway, back to the patio tomato plant... any ideas?? Should I prune off the bad leaves and hope new, healthy leaves return?

Thank you in advance for all your help!

Side note: I have noticed some new leaves growing and they look healthy.